The influx of blogs has made writers or bloggers out of the ordinary people. Blogging has democratized the world. Every one now has a voice , and they can write what ever he wants and also can add pictures of what ever kinds.. It is difficult to make this kind of assertion about a country like Pakistan where the number of internet users is extremely limited, and majority of them even not awar about the name of internet. Some one suggests that 30% of those limited users have a blog of their own. We know for sure some of these blogs carry; incredible influence. Therefore we thought it was time to do special report about blogging in Pakistan and how it is impacting this society. We hope that this article will sufficiently help the users of internet not only in Pakistan but all over the glob. We are also hopefull that our visitor will gain sufficient knowledge from this article and will be able to create their own sites or at least a blog on any blog hosting websites.
Of course, we recognize the irony contained in the democratizing impact of blogging by keeping the majority of population out.We also know that if this 30% internet uses in Pakistan knew the positive use of internet, and if they thought about the positive aspects of internet, they will become able to earn a incredible amount of money from the use of internet. We know that we shall only talk about a tiny internet-using English-literate part of the society but still we thought we could pull it off. We could see the parallel logging draws with English language journalism in this country. It too may be talking about the issues of the majority and impacting policies.
Beyond this optimistic assumption, we were curious to find out why people blog. What is it about the sphere that turns ordinary people into writers? Is it only a “virtual diary” or something more than that? Or also wanted to know if the readers took blogs seriously. Is there a financial incentive involved? True, blogging is all about absolute freedom but what about rumours and slanderous campaigns. Is there a legal mechanism available for people to save their reputations on blogs? True, blogging is easy and cheap compared to journalist and virtual poet and short story writer in Pakistan.
Surprisingly, despite the limited users, we got some positive response on all the questions raised above. Becouse the majority of those 30% interne users in Pakistan has great experience that how to blog, what kind of mattereal to include in their blog and what types of picture to upload in blog, as they have sufficient knowledge about it. We also reached on the result that at such information and awarness about blogging is very usfull and there fore blogging has filled in the vacuum in terms of information, knowledge, censorship, lack of opportunities, and what not. Most of the peoples blog about the daily events and some blog about technology and some blog about their own choice for the purpose to share the informations with world. There is the downside as well. Some times innovations lead to disruption. Sometimes “net activism” prevents actual physical action. But it is hoped that ultimately the democratic discourse shall win the day.
Of course, we recognize the irony contained in the democratizing impact of blogging by keeping the majority of population out.We also know that if this 30% internet uses in Pakistan knew the positive use of internet, and if they thought about the positive aspects of internet, they will become able to earn a incredible amount of money from the use of internet. We know that we shall only talk about a tiny internet-using English-literate part of the society but still we thought we could pull it off. We could see the parallel logging draws with English language journalism in this country. It too may be talking about the issues of the majority and impacting policies.
Beyond this optimistic assumption, we were curious to find out why people blog. What is it about the sphere that turns ordinary people into writers? Is it only a “virtual diary” or something more than that? Or also wanted to know if the readers took blogs seriously. Is there a financial incentive involved? True, blogging is all about absolute freedom but what about rumours and slanderous campaigns. Is there a legal mechanism available for people to save their reputations on blogs? True, blogging is easy and cheap compared to journalist and virtual poet and short story writer in Pakistan.
Surprisingly, despite the limited users, we got some positive response on all the questions raised above. Becouse the majority of those 30% interne users in Pakistan has great experience that how to blog, what kind of mattereal to include in their blog and what types of picture to upload in blog, as they have sufficient knowledge about it. We also reached on the result that at such information and awarness about blogging is very usfull and there fore blogging has filled in the vacuum in terms of information, knowledge, censorship, lack of opportunities, and what not. Most of the peoples blog about the daily events and some blog about technology and some blog about their own choice for the purpose to share the informations with world. There is the downside as well. Some times innovations lead to disruption. Sometimes “net activism” prevents actual physical action. But it is hoped that ultimately the democratic discourse shall win the day.