Social Media, Peacebuilding, YMPs (Excerpt from Paper for OIC Third Meeting, June 12-13, Singapore ) To summarize, the new media study on Arab spring springs these main findings: • First, social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring. • Second, a spike in online revolutionary conversations often preceded major events on the ground. • Third, social media helped spread democratic ideas across international borders ( ictlogy.net/bibliography/reports/projects.php?idp=2170). The new medias role can be likened to the historic role of print media in fostering nationalism through what Benedict Anderson (1991) calls ‘print capitalism’, or the role of literacy in raising consciousness in pre-revolutionary eighteenth-century France as the works of Robert Darnton (1982) and John Markoff (1986) illustrate. Markoff shows that in regions with higher literacy, revolutionary activities were more organized compared to those in low literacy regions. A Muslim World League (MWL) symposium on the Image of Islam in the Contemporary Media in 2001 endorsed the following recommendations : - for cooperation between Daw’ah and Media establishments for “introducing Islamic beliefs and teachings to humanity at large in a decent way, - ” urged media establishments in the Muslim world to create a united forum in cooperation with Islamic organizations especially the MWL to introduce Islamic message to the people of the world as it has great benefits for human beings and protect them from vices and disasters. Media in this case for the Southern Philippines with a Muslim minority community can also be used for problem-solving, and because Mindanao has been affected by a conflict for centuries, media is a unique medium to take its problem solving function more seriously.
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