Role of Social Media in Political Landscape
Using Internet and Social Media to help win elections is not a new story. Marc Andreessen, a founder of Netscape and a board member of Facebook did it for Barrack Obama very neatly.
What makes me write this post is the recent tweet by Sashi Tharoor that Oct 2nd, should be a working day instead of a holidy in India. He said on Twitter,
Gandhiji said — Work is Workship — and we enjoy holiday on his birthday. He would have wanted us to work harder today.
In political circles this might have created a controversy but the work-is-workship believers indeed cheered up Tharoor’s tweet. What amazes me is the speed at which social media is connecting the politicians and the people. A politician who wants to connect cannot give loose excuses and visit only once in 5 years. And the young India is liking its leaders speaking their mind on such platforms. As long as this constructive effort is underway on Youtube, Twitter, Facobook and other social media giants, the next generation would hopefully find itself close to it’s leaders.
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