13 Days Vs 11 Years: A Comparative Study of theOnline Campaigns of Anna Hazare & Irom Sharmila
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Abstract
Corruption is an issue of which people everywhere are victims. There are other human right related problems which go unnoticed when corruption takes the headlines. Irom Sharmila has been fasting for many years. Media had never projected her plight for justice except in very few occasions. At the same time the India Against Corruption Movement led by Anna Hazare got immense support from the public through large scale media coverage. This paper is an attempt to analyze how social media reacted to both these
issues by undertaking a Content Analysis of the facebook pages of “FREE IROM SHARMILA!!!!! REPEAL THE AFSPA!!!!!” and “India Against Corruption”. The study is conducted using the posts and comments on both these pages during and after the 13 days fasting of Anna Hazare. The study reveals that people began to show more interest in the case of Irom Sharmila after the movement of Anna Hazare. It is found that Social Media started playing its role in this Human Right movement too.
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