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A Christian Science Monitor report on the rise of SMS text messaging as a political organising tool, opening with South Korean students using texts to spontaneously mobilise hundreds of protesters against exam pressures in Seoul. The piece situates the phenomenon within a broader wave of ‘mobile democracy’, noting that in more tightly controlled societies such as China and parts of the Middle East, cheap and hard-to-monitor text messaging was giving activists a fast, uncensored channel to mobilise protests and evade authorities.
Region
Global
Category
Governance/political
Organisation / Author
Christian Science Monitor