![]() ![]() Keeping in view the subject matter of this paper, “Chinese Censorship versus Tibetan Activism on Social Media,” we shall look into the changing roles media as well as social media has played during particular episodes of Tibetan activism. At the root of all these changes lies information, which is of course an indispensable facet of ‘New Media’ as well. Human history is marked by events ranging from simple understanding to profound revelations, all of which have led to fundamental discoveries and path-breaking inventions. ![]() In today’s highly digitised world the role of social media in our modern lives has become almost unavoidable.he contemporary period has come to be invariably labelled as the age of ‘information’, ‘cyber’ age or ‘networking’ age. The simple fact that almost one-seventh of humanity is connected through this single portal gives us reason enough to be objective and truthful, rather than manipulative, with the information we create and share. Facebook, for instance, celebrated its tenth anniversary with over one billion active users worldwide in 2014. There has been a tremendous rise in the growth of online social networks all over the world in recent times, and the development of the largest online networks like Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook, and the popular Chinese microblogging sites Weibo and WeChat, have been well documented. In this social media obsessed age, we can create our identities and live vicariously through the lives we generate on social media platforms. ![]()
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