When I wrote my blog entry about ‘Hong Kong’s fight
for democracy’ (http://thelifeaccordingtous-blog.tumblr.com/post/98713729042/hong-kong-the-fight-for-democracy-currently), I was particular interested in how the student got organized
and which role Social Media played in that ‘Umbrella Movement’. Indeed, social
media before and during the demonstration is crucial, like a
catalysator. Especially, channels such
as facebook as well as what’s ap are irreplaceable in these days.
However, when I looked at the pages, there were just few which provide the information in English. As the strike had escalated
during last week, more and more pages appear. Furthermore, step-by-step some
facebook pages provide bilingual elements. In this blog entry I’ll analyses one particular page ‘Hong Kong Democracy Now’, which helps me a lot to be informed by the latest
incidents.
First of all, ‘Hong Kong Democracy Now’ belongs to niche media as it
emerged during the on going protests. It were founded at the 27th of
September and provides the audience with “Multilingual
updates on Hong Kong's ongoing democratic movements“ on the facebook as well as on its Twitter Account '@hkdemonow'. Throughout these two days it has 22, 222
followers, which in my point of view shows its great impact. Shortly after one
day, it provides information in 9 (!) different languages: English, Japanese,
Korea, French, Spanish, Finish, Swedish and Czech. With a call for help, the
people behind ‘Hong Kong Democracy Now’ asked for help:
編按：此站以多國語言發布，中英以外為簡譯版本，以便大家將香
Until today, they added three more languages: Thai, Russion as well as Japan. At the picture above, you can see one poster with the same information translated into various languages.
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