GLOBAL VOICES ONLINE: TECHNOLOGY HELPS RALLY HUNDREDS IN HONG KONG
According to Oiwan Lam of Global Voices Online, On February 15, 2009, more than 800 people participatedin a demonstration against the Christian Right Wing in Hong Kong. The rally had no traditional NGO back up and it was mainly mobilized via Facebook groups.
Question to the Blogosphere: Does the Internet help people in places like Hong Kong connect and form common ground on more than just passing incidents? In other words, can Facebook, Twitter, and those like it help strangers establish relationships based on discovered common ground? Can you think of other incidents like this in which technology organized people who otherwise would not have come together because of censorship laws? What is the role of censorship in helping or hurting peoples’ abilities to search for common ground?
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