"Only 2 000 registered to vote, says ZEC"; @NewsDayZimbabwe
Sobering blow. Hashtags, retweets & likes are not a voter mobilization strategy. When people urge you to "retweet for awareness"; they're just pushing their profile, not a national strategy!
newsday.co.zw/2021/12/only-2…
Sobering blow. Hashtags, retweets & likes are not a voter mobilization strategy. When people urge you to "retweet for awareness"; they're just pushing their profile, not a national strategy!
newsday.co.zw/2021/12/only-2…
Digital communication can be very useful in highlighting or explaining praxis, i.e what's going on, but it is not as useful in starting praxis. It's useless to have a tweet for retweets or likes; that's not targeting anyone who is actually doing something real in the real word!
Electoral authorities in Zim wanted a monopoly to do voter education for voter registration etc; but they lost the argument as civic society & political parties resisted it since they knew the monopoly would undermine democracy. Key: VOTER REGISTRATION IS MOBILIZED ON THE GROUND!
Mobilization strategies are shaped by exigencies of specfic situations & environments. In Zim, the #CIO has a HUGE #bots OPERATION to retweet & like tweets to create all sorts of confusion; like making people think they're communicating when they're not; #CIOBots aren't citizens!
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