One of the major concerns about the recent social movement and new social Medias is to compare and contrast the good and bad aspects of it in our society. Undoubtedly social Medias have brought a revolutionary changes in our lifestyle, the way we react and interact with others. The case study that I have mentioned before can be a good example to illustrate the positive and negative impacts of Social Medias in our life and society and we can distinguish whether social Medias were solely responsible to make the social movement a better move or something else aggregated the whole process.

In our case study we talked about BOAN (Bloggers and online activists Network) who were basically a part of online media and used internet as a platform to express their concern about political issues of Bangladesh. They created events online to reach a broad audience through social networking sites like Facebook, Bloggers or You Tube. Irony is that Internet is still a luxury commodity in most of the underdeveloped and developing countries. Common people still rely on traditional Medias to receive information about socio-political issues. Cell phones are a great medium to communicate with each other in this countries. These countries still do not have free Wi-Fi zone that can help people to connect with internet for free. Cell phone companies or Internet Service Providers still charge a high fee for Internet subscription that people with low income cannot afford. Even people, who can afford to have internet connection, do not enjoy the same speedy internet as we do in US or European developed countries. As mentioned in the case study, the protest got publicity when it was broadcasted by numerous Satellite TV channels which are still a part of the old or offline media and where masses have very little or no access to express their voice. Without the co-operation from the government there will be always a debate that whether it would have succeeded or not. Undoubtedly social Medias played an important role to create a common platform for many unknown people who knew each other on the virtual community not in real life to work together for a common goal.  That was establishing the social demand of justice. Interesting fact is that most of the people who joined in the protest lived within the radius of 10-15 miles from the center of the capital.  On the contrary we have seen Islamic group “Hefajote-e-Islami” who had very little knowledge about technology and had very little presence on the virtual community created a strong demonstration without using social Medias. Their protest was covered by few offline media but it was not good enough to make their protest a grand success. They chose cell phones and interpersonal communication as a medium to communicate and collaborate with each other. If they had presence on the online community then their demonstration could have gained a better significance. From the Case Study we have also seen that how severe the damage can be for using online platforms to spread hatred against religious or ethnic groups. To illustrate the havoc of such heinous we can recall the release of controversial anti-Islamic movie “Innocence of Muslims” by Basseley Nakoula on You Tube that caused violent protest in Arab countries and more than 50 people were killed and many other were injured as a result. For this we cannot blame social Medias but we can definitely blame the misuse of social Medias.