GEOPOLITICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: SOCIAL MEDIA CHANGING DYNAMIC OF POWER

As we know social media has changed the world and everything social media platform have empowered government and individual their opinion and share the experience.This platform has created a new opportunities and a lot of new skills developing in people in a global discussions and share their ideas and point of view.

And learning a new skill and others. This platform have become an vital instrument. Social media interact over all global worlds with communication people can connect and share their stories from any where in the world.

Social media platform have vital channel for political and government to connect their citizen and the global community. The advent of social media has enabled the Swift and propaganda, allowing ideas and narratives to spread rapidly across the globe enabling users to share content with the vast audience public opinion and discourse. Social media spread false information and propaganda, and spread quickly used by leader and groups to influence public opinion which can be exploited by both “state actors” and “non state actors”.

Social media platform offers and grant government with their command tool to control their population, silencing dissenting voice, keeping citizen activities and monitoring citizen activities. Government likes china and Russia employ technology and social media to observe their population. Suppressing expression, enforcing on rebellion.China for instance, has link it’s social media platform with a social credit system inspire and influence people behavior and approaches to service.

This system can impact on people’s in their daily lives, such as including their ability to access certain action by exploiting social media government can shape community view and citizen perception and maintain control over their masses.

The raised significant concerns about privacy freedom of expression and individual freedom.On the positive side social media enable and empower grassroots movement and activism.

It’s has play a important role in designed rebellion, boycotted such as Arab spring, where social media was used to structured and mobilize public against authoritarian regimes platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram were a lots of spreading information around the global world and a assembling global attention to causes ranging people rights abuses to environment problem issues.

The rapidly transmission of information particularly in real time has allowed activities and reach international viewers forcing government to respond the citizen pressure more quickly.The geopolitical power dynamic in the digital age is also highlight by the increasing threat of cyber attacks and digital warfare.

Nation state now engage in cyber surveillance hacking, and also cyber attacks against one another. These attract disable essential l infrastructure compromised steal sensitive interrupt and information without the political process. Cyber attack on critical infrastructure like Electrical network, power systems and Banking system have became and vital element of geopolitical conflict.The 2007 cyber attacks on Estonia.

The 2017 wanna cry drew attention attack attributes to North Korea, and move recently Russia cyber attacks on Ukraine verify how digital conflict is changing the vista of international relations. Countries now have to protect their digital borders as passionately as they safety and protect their physical ones.

Social media has significantly reshaped the geopolitical landscaping in the digital age.

The changing dynamic of power are characterizes by the devolution of information,the militarization of platform for misinformation and the increasing information of digital diplomacy.

The next era of geopolitics will undeniably be shaped by how nation corporation and individual direction this new digital wilderness.

Eman Asad

karachi .

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