Sri Lanka Parliamentary Election 2015: How did Social Media make a difference?

• by Nalaka Gunawardene 
• - on 09/03/2015 

What role (if any) did social media play in the recently concludedParliamentary (General) Election on 17 August 2015?

Many are asking this question – and coming up with different answers. That is characteristic of our new reality: there is no single right answer when it comes to multi-faceted and fast-evolving phenomena like social media.

Shortly after the Presidential Election of 8 January 2015 ended, I called it Sri Lanka’s first cyber election. That was based on my insights from over 20 years of watching and chronicling the gradual spread of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in Sri Lanka and the resulting rise of an information society.

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