2. Social Media as the new
Documentation Tool
Md. Mahbubul Haque Osmani
MSJ Department 2nd Curriculum Integration Program
Spring-2013
26 April 2013

12. Social Media
 Web-based platform
 People share information,
thoughts and activities.
Virtual Public Sphere
 Web 2.0 -
 web applications
 interoperability
 user-centered design

15. Social Media
 Web 2.0-
 social networking sites
 blogs
 participatory information
sharing
 video sharing sites

16. Bloggers first Protest against the
verdict of Kader Molla

17. Protest in the evening

18. Social Networking
Sites
 Facebook/ Tweeter/you tube:
 Facebook was introduced in 2004
 More than 800 million
 3rd biggest 'country' in the world
 Offer casual friendship
 Used as key components in the
contemporary issues/ platform of
protesters

20. Documenting The Bangladeshi
Through Facebook

21. Documenting The Bangladeshi
Through Facebook

22. Shahbag Protest in
Facebook

23. Bangladesh: Amader Shahbag

24. Bangladesh: Shahbag
Protest

25. Shahbag Blasts

26. Basherkella (Against Protest)

27. FB Video In Favor of
Saydee

28. Bangladesh: 7 Heroic Martyrs FB
Page

29. Bangladesh Cricket Team FB
Page

30. Blogs
 Introduced 1999
 9/11 popularized the blog
 Iraq War increased the number of
bloggers
 Bloggers express opinions of global
incidents
 Provide instant information/
images/video/audio
 Play the role of citizen journalists
 Respond on behalf of humanity/ greater

31. Bangla Blog: Somewhere in

32. Bangla Blog:
Shachalayton

33. Bangla Blog:
Shachalayton

34. Bangla Blog: Amar
Blog

35. Banned Blog “Sonar
Bangla”

36. Documenting The
Bangladeshi
Producer: urban/ relatively well-educated/
middle class
Instrument: Multimedia Platform: - written
text/video/audio/Images
Modes: Different Ideological People/ Pro-
western/ Conservative/ Reactive/ Proactive/
Secular/ Progressive
Document Type: Sharing/ Reproducing/
Responding to the socio-economic and
political issues/ Express texts, video, audio,
images

37. How would be
Documented?
 Online community/ Regularly
serve news and analyses on
contemporary issues
 Criticize the government for
their failures
 Move for democratizing the
society for equal rights

38. How would be
Documented?
 Bangla blog community: reporting
on BDR tragedy just after it began
 Blogger 'Onrino' from
Somewherein...blog , at 10:08 am, on
February 25, 2009 –
 “Since the morning, exchange of
fire is heard inside BDR”
 The title of the post was- “Soldier
mutiny in the BDR, massive fire

39. BDR tragedy

40. How would be
Documented?
 BDR tragedy: First report in any kind
of media
 One-sentence created enormous
curiosity
 Asking to elaborate/ update the news
 As time passed, other bloggers came
 Share news, views and analyses
 Incident became one of the most
discussed issues in the blog

41. How would be
Documented?
 Like BDR tragedy, online community has
responded to every significant event in the
country.
 Border killings by BSF,
 War crimes tribunal
 Protest against Air Port in Ariol Bil,
Munshigong
 Destruction of Baul sculpture in front of the
airport,
 Killing of a journalist couple, Sagor-Runi
 Ramu Incident (Destroyed temples and fired

42. Blogger Razib:
Murdered

43. Documented Through Music
(Atheist/Believer)

44. Rohingay: Favor/Against

45. Protest Against Murder of Sagor-
Runi

46. Destruction of Ramu
Temple

47. Destruction of Baul sculpture in front
of the Airport

48. Discussion about BSF Killing

49. How would be Documented?
 Humanity, democracy and the rights of
people and against the repression of the
powerful
 Where 'old' media offered passive
consumption, new media offer interactivity
 Cyberspace is free -- no gatekeeper is
going to edit one's opinion
 Alternative media is relatively cheaper, can
transcend borders and break conventional
relations between the sender and the
receiver.

50. FB Image Documenting
Bangladeshi

51. Up Rising Bangladesh Through
Social Media

52. A New Bangladesh Arise

53. Thank You