some research done during a class.

www.bhutanomics.com in the 2013 elections in Bhutan.

Bhutanomics is an analytical website that favored PDP in winning the 2^nd parliamentary elections in 2013, by writing the anti articles, posts, tweets of the ruling party DPT and their government. It was very active in informing the shortcomings, failures and mistakes of the DPT through made up stories and post. Factually bhutanomics was an anti DPT association. They claimed to be Bhutan’s analysts while the fact was, they were the analysts only meant for DPT. Once the elections were won by PDP, the Bhutanomics became dormant and now every reader knows that it was a site ran by PDP supporters to upturn Bhutanese mass against DPT and favor PDP for the elections. They had achieved what they want, PDP to rule Bhutan by winning 2013 elections but the truth is that every Bhutanese felt that they had been misinformed, made anti DPTs and made to vote for PDP by so called Bhutan analytic site; Bhutanomics.

Citizen journalism in Boxing Day Tsunami, 2004.

The 2004 earthquakes and the tsunamis in south Asia and their aftermath represent a tipping point in so-called “citizen journalism.” What’s so striking about this story is the breadth of citizen coverage without the mainstream journalism. The unfolding scenes of disaster were videotaped, pictured and shared on social media by the people who experienced and survived the disaster- spread across the country and thousands of miles-were able to share their heart wrenching stories, photographs, and videos with the rest of the world.

Digital technologies- the web, e-mail, blogs, digital cameras, camera phones- have evolved to the point where people on the scene share with professional journalists the ability to reach a wide audience, to tell and show the world what they saw and experienced. Citizen journalism played a phenomenal role in telling the world about the disaster through their amateur videos, photographs and blogs without the help or need of mainstream news outlets. It was amazing.

Social media in jasmine revolution.

Tunisia’s jasmine revolution has demonstrated the power of the internet in social unrest. For decades, Tunisia has imposed restrictions on the media in a bid to maintain control and limit exposure to the growing disparities between the ruling elite and the rest of the population. But the restriction of internet didn’t work as jasmine revolution rose to mass revolution.   This revolution saw a series of grassroots demonstrations that lead to the removal of long time Tunisian president and strongman Zine el Albidine Ben Ali. The interesting thing about this revolution was that it was the first popular uprising in the Middle East and North African region, fuelled by a young, internet-savvy generation. The root cause was high unemployment, particularly among graduates. The appetite of that generation, especially of those unemployed that saw political and economic change grow, especially where they saw unreasonable inequalities, took to social media such as Facebook, twitter, blog entries and e-mails to mobilize weeks of protests across the country which culminated in massive, nation-wide demonstrations on Friday 14 January that led Ben Ali into exile.