How does social media for democracy? asks Nobel Peace Center exhibition BeDemocracy. They have asked Raymond Johansen be an editor Twitter account their Monday morning.
– Social media is like Alfred Nobel invention of gunpowder. They can be used for something useful – or something harmful. We want people to explore how social media works in society and democracy.
It says exhibition manager Liv Astrid Sverdrup at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, as she welcomes Labour’s Party Secretary Raymond Johansen. He will be known in the interactive exhibition BeDemocracy, who declared on November 23.
Not enough, Monday morning and in a week’s Johansen has been appointed as editor of BeDemocracys account on micro-blogging network Twitter. And there it flows steadily messages from many countries.
– net change Norway and the world
– Why set up as editor of The Peace Center
– I do both because it is an important project for our future, and because it gives me the opportunity to focus on social media – that has changed and is changing Norway and the relationship between regimes and people in the world, says Raymond Johansen told ABC News.
He joins the comparison between social media and gunpowder – they can be both useful and harmful. The last thing we clearly been demonstrated by the Islamic State (IS) professionals use social media to spread propaganda and terror.
Peace Center exhibition BeDemocracy also raises questions about the use of social media makes you more subjected to monitoring. The public can also touch a screen and respond to the whistleblower Edward Snowden is a hero or a traitor.
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35 percent of us are discussing
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MORE OR LESS DEMOCRACY WITH THE INTERNET? Raymond Johansen is challenged by exhibition boss Liv Astrid Sverdrup at the Nobel Peace Center. Photo: Thomas Vermes. – Internet and social media can help create a violent democratization in the sense that you get a much closer contact with voters, says Johansen front of a very picture of Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
During all visitors can touch a screen and send their message directly to her.
– Use these tools properly, they can reduce the threshold for most people to take up political issues, says Johansen .
Communications Director Toril Rokseth tells the lap of the Nobel Peace Center that 35 percent of Norwegians participate in political debate online. But many young people are reluctant to express political opinions online for fear of being bullied.
Ap from house printing to online experts
– Social media also provides political parties opportunities to build up direct channels to the voters, without going through the media editing. We also see the new power several popular movements have been using Twitter and Facebook in countries like Egypt and Ukraine, said Raymond Johansen.
Labor as an organization adapts to the new digital reality.
– One example is that we stick with its own in-house printing. Many talented people have worked there for years. Now we employ more people with knowledge of technology and social media, said Raymond Johansen.
Ap lent network helps to EU
APs WEB EXPERT: Raymond Johansen lent Marte Ingul one year to the European Social Democrats campaigning on social media. Photo: Thomas Vermes.
At his side he has an example of the new generation of party hire experts in.
The counselor Marte Ingul is one that can be a lot of political use Social Media – yes party secretary lent her out to Brussels and the social democratic grouping PES last year.
There, she ran the digital campaign for the German president Martin Schulz before the European Parliament in the spring.
– We in Norway and Norwegian politicians, is far ahead of many of the politicians in the second European countries and in Brussels when to use social media to engage in dialogue with voters, says Ingul.
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– The network may hinder reconciliation
– But the web is obviously a great strength for the Islamic State (IS) and other black powers?
– Totally agree. Unfortunately, IS gain great power through these tools. We also see evidence that repressive regimes fear these tools so much, that they close access to them. An example is the Turkish President Erdogan throttled citizens’ access to social media when his government was corruption sank made just before the elections in spring.
– There are two challenges that we have to talk about. The first is the first social media are used in propaganda. IS professional web users and bestiality are much closer to the publication of the murder of the American journalist James Foley.
– The second is that reconciliation in conflict can be difficult. I have a long political life, particularly in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working on peace and reconciliation. I see that the split media reality social media can create possibly make it even more difficult to create peace, said party secretary.
– One example is the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The danger is that through social media grow polarization makes it harder to find common ground for reconciliation, he adds.
To distinguish wheat from the chaff
A positive example is however the Arab Spring who used the net to folkebevegelsers mobilization.
– On the other hand, we see how it is being used for propaganda of the extreme groups. But this is the reality, says Johansen and concludes:
– Our ability to separate the wheat from the chaff, is essential. The network is part of the new democracy, although it has several biases.
So the moment of truth comes for Raymond Johansen:
Helps network to democracy? It is one of the questions BeDemocracy set to public, which can touch a screen and choose numbers from 1 (very weakens democracy) to 5 (very forces).
Raymond Johansen press 3 and grinning
– I am the social democrat.
Most people, at least those who until Friday had participated in BeDemocracys poll, looks brighter for it. 1,922 people (38 percent) said 4 985 people (19 percent) went up to 5, said Liv Astrid Sverdrup.
So it was monitoring as
The tour took place on BeDemocracy Friday, the same day police surveillance PST went out with the desire to monitor and store the data, if all Norwegians web use – almost indistinguishable from the EU’s controversial Data Retention Directive DLD. DLD wanted Ap as known to introduce in Norway.
The small group is left at the section of the exhibition problematisrer opportunity online technology allows for the monitoring of an entire population.
– What do you think in retrospect the Data Retention Directive, Parliament adopted, but that was so roughly that the European Court stopped it?
– I understand the question. But most important are the opportunities the major players like Facebook and Google have to monitor you. They combine information, answer Johansen.
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slipped away view of DLD
– But what do you think about government surveillance and data storage
– Yes, you see how little the rebellion it was when it was revealed that the United States secret service NSA had monitored over 100 heads of state and diplomats. I think there was little noise compared with the reactions in the 80s with the surveillance scandal in Norway, he said.
– What would you on a scale from 1 to 5 pressure on the EU Data Retention Directive, DLD?
– I’m good social democrat, i. I would have pressed 3 again, smiling Raymond Johansen.
BeDemocracy engages a guest editor each week. Here you can see the list of those who have controlled your Twitter account.
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