Film, video, and the new digital medium for compilation, dissemination, and interaction called the Internet are emerging as powerful tools also for the NGO and human rights community. It is often noted that the recent political upheavals in Iran, the former Soviet Union, China, and elsewhere have been facilitated by a change in consciousness carried by various small media. The new digital media for visual, sound, and textual communication promise to intensify, diversify, and perhaps democratize the possibilities for new forms of public spheres that can be utilized by NGOs supporting democracy and human rights. Beyond email and simple access to information, the Internet can also transform the way that visual and narrative technologies can be deployed for expanding general support for democracy and human rights. It is not something that simply will come along with the laying of new technological infrastructures, with the laying of new fiber optic cables from Oslo via Malaysia to Japan, or across a new "silk route" of glass and packets of light. The costs of technological infrastructures could as easily lead to new forms of concentration of wealth, and stratification of access to just-in-time information.
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| Emelia Yasin |
sources from: http://www.bangkokpost.com
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