Does the twitter verse open up venue for societal engagement and a
political descent?
Twitter and facebook is actually the product of
technological development where connects people in any places with the help
also in internet. As we can see facebook and twitter have been made to fasten
access of people in their desire in arts, music any in sociocultural, economic
and political fields. Basically it fastens the exchange and sharing of
information in modern world wherein it also provide the most updated political
situation in every country where people can react on it. It is also an outlet for political propaganda but
it does fully offer societal engagement or crackdown it only offers a sort information that makes people to decide
whether it really needs political actions or not.
What really offers a
venue to societal engagement or political descent is the physically initiated
political actions with the broad masses and laid it down in the place where it
should be address. Because a true revolutionary and being a political activist
would not just seat on the table and just rely on the availability and capacity
of the technology to lead a change because it might loosen up our ability to
dig deeper the nature of the societal problems that we want to be change. As my
experience being a human rights and political activist for almost a decade the
most important thing to do to concretely understand the nature of the problem
that we want to be change is to integrate ourselves with those affected sectors
in the society and bring it into actions that effectively crash down to those
political leaders who goes beyond the desire of the people who put them on
their position and the political system inimically embrace the life of the
marginalized this is which I think twitter
and facebook cannot provide.
Why is the
relationship between technology and political protest important?
in the high-tech era
facebook and twitter plays important part in political protest basically it speed up the process of sending information
and sharing of knowledge, almost all of the communication can be channel and
spread out to the widest possible with the help of this kind of technology. With
the help of such twitter and facebook it strengthens our access to information
what is happening inside government agencies or the government as a whole where
people can quickly react and through the help of technology information can
reach out and can gather sympathy to its widest possibility. Historically
technology offers a great help in every political actions from manual to
computerized. My personal experience on the importance of technology in
political protest gives a big difference compare in the past few years in the
field of activism, I personally experience a hardship in getting information
and coordination in organizing mass mobilization. Generally offers to speed up
the system of communication and educating the people and organizing political
protest through the use of radio, television, mobile phones and internet.
What is the
disadvantage of Facebook/twitter and what are the potentials?
facebook and twitter basically offers a wide range of propagating information
and in fact it is on this social media where we can quickly receive news and events compare to
the other traditional one. As what I have mentioned it really helps hasten the
communications on making social actions. But in some other way it is also a
path of strengthening and preserving our country as semi-colonial under the
clutch US imperialist. Super power countries need to control the so-called
three super structure on their colony in order to maintain its control, thus it
ensure that culture would be preserved subservient to their economic interest
that is why most of our local arts (music, movie etc.) industry were vastly
bury into its worst condition because in just a matter of an hour we can quickly
access to those newly released albums of music and whatsoever related culture
through social media. Also in economy most
of the businesses transactions now a day are channelled through internet that
is why the effect of economic crisis in most first world country quickly spread
out to the third world like Philippines such the “high-tech bubble crisis” in
US happen during 2001,facebook and twitter are one of the gateway on this
economic crackdown. Facebook and twitter also risky to the security of the
people who are politically critical especially to the US because we know for a
fact the US who controls all the internet cables which can be monitored by one
of their most advance technology and intelligence agency.
Many of today’s political activist and revolutionary forces
are using facebook and twitter to educate, mobilize and even recruiting online
which is for me is not helpful and will only lessen the quality of new breed
revolutionary or a mass leaders who will lead for their struggle because it
cannot help to develop the every individual’s behaviour as a future
revolutionary leader by simply disintegrating himself with the people that
would suppose to help us mould our mind and characteristics as a political
activist and being a revolutionary.
“History shapes
political view”
karl marx on his theory of historical materialism says that “The actual historical process is not predetermined but depends
on the class struggle, especially the organization and consciousness of the working class” “Social
progress is driven by progress in the material, productive forces a society has
at its disposal” so definitely the political view of the people is the product
of their realization and consciousness of their
past social conditions not by in any predetermined assumption because
our knowledge relies on the development of a things in motion, and its
inseparable relationship to the mode of production.
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