The new iDemocracy
The revolution will not be televised, but that doesn’t matter anymore. The amount of global online chatter about the Iran election is monumental, and fueling those within Iran and other countries who have, through years of oppression, mastered the art of internet communications regardless of their government’s efforts to squelch its citizen’s access to information.
Over the last 15 years a form of global democracy has sprung up across the internet, where citizens of different countries can share their biggest hopes and fears as well as what type of shoes they just bought, all via social networks like twitter. This freedom of social communication is contagious and inspiring. It continues to become influential in connecting people with assumed differences together into one community across the globe.
As Iran dives into social injustice, the people know that as members of the global community, they are much stronger than simply their numbers on the streets. Millions in this new global democracy are working overtime to make sure their words are heard and actions seen. It is harder and harder for a government to hold it’s people down when they realize that borders no longer exist. Tweet on!