抗争的动力:新媒体与缅甸的民主化

自从2007年以来,缅甸社会政治发生了很大变化,其中新媒体起了很关键的作用。在2007年"藏红花"革命和2008年纳吉斯风灾中,缅甸人民利用互联网、移动电话等新媒体技术向世界传递了政府镇压和掩盖的真相。缅甸军人政府也明显感到了新媒体技术对其统治的压力,因此在2010年缅甸大选之前,严格控制国内的互联网。新媒体技术的出现虽然没有导致缅甸社会权力结构发生实质性的变化,但是新媒体技术打破了原来军政府对信息的封锁,逐渐促进了缅甸的民主化进程。

Dynamics of Contention: New Media and the Democratization of Myanmar

Since 2007,Myanmar has undergone great social and political changes in which new media technologies play an important role.In the 2007 "Saffron" Revolution and the 2008 Nargis cyclone,the people of Myanmar exposed the government’s repression to the world by using the Internet,mobile phones and other new media.Military government felt the press that the new media impacted on its power,so before the 2010 election,it controled the domestic internet strictly.Although the new media has not led to the substantive change of Myanmar’s social power structure,it has broken the military government’s blockade,and promoted the democratization process of the country gradually.