September 4, 2009
Political communication methods and strategies connect people to ideas and issues, and serve to bridge organizations and political parties to citizens and constituencies. Traditional modes of communication and campaigns have centered largely on ways of reaching voters and sectors with particular messages through print and broadcast media. National Council of Union Burma (NCUB) is a member of CALD and it is joining the workshop.
The advent of the Internet has, however, ushered in a vastly different playing field for political communication. The so-called Web 2.0, a term now used to describe an emerging set of Internet-based tools and an emerging philosophy on how to use them, has created a sea change in political communication. Prior to this wave of technological innovation, information and news were largely provided by centralized, top-down and one-way media channels.
NCUB pointed out Burma has only .01% of total population is able to use internet but during 2007 Saffron Revolution, citizen journalists and political activists knocked out regime’s suppressive media. Today, thousands of Burmese managed blogs are available on the web. Regime has guns but citizens use communication technology.
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