political citizen journalism in singapore

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: James Seng <james () seng sg>
Date: May 1, 2006 4:53:13 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: political citizen journalism in singapore

hi dave,

as you may be aware, the singapore government has warned bloggers are  
not to engaged in political discussion during general election (20th  
april to 6th may) as activities like blogging, podcasting and  
videocasting is not on the "approved" list.

despite that, citizen journalisms in singapore continues to cover  
debates and rallies (mostly by oppositions) which is not covered by  
the mainstream media. numerous singaporean blogs has dedicated to  
cover the elections and rallies such as http://yawningbread.org/ and  
http://djourne.net/sgelection06/

the most interesting of all is http://sgrally.blogspot.com/ a site  
that, thanks to profilations of mobile phones with videocam  
capability, youtube and other video hosting site, makes possible for  
people to submit and share their recorded snipplet of the rallies.  
(see http://sgrally.blogspot.com/2006/02/welcome-to-sg-rally- 
singapores-first.html for the background)

when the site was first reveal in feb, mainstream media downplay the  
site along the line that people wont bother to record, digitize,  
upload and share the video clips as it is too complicated for most  
people. the last 48 hours has proof them wrong.

citizen journalism is triving and overtaking the mainstream media.  
right now, the top 10 keyword search in technorati.com is "Singapore  
Election"

thought it is interesting to share with IPers.

ps: dave, as a non-singaporean in singapore, i am not allowed by law  
to part-take in political discussion or action and neither am i  
interested in the political outcome nor do i have a political agenda.  
however, i believe in citizen journalism and to see how technology is  
used in action makes me very excited

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