Comments on: Issues with Social Networking (in India and perhaps elsewhere) http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/09/04/issues-with-social-networking-in-india-and-perhaps-elsewhere/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeetega Kaun (India) http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/09/04/issues-with-social-networking-in-india-and-perhaps-elsewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-18085 Jeetega Kaun (India) Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:20:52 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1298#comment-18085 Hi Tim, This is a very nice and comprehensive analysis of social networking related issues in India. Based on our experience as it relates to social networking in India vis-à-vis politics, we can state that there seems to be at the least a considerable amount of interest in political matters from the online community here in India. We ran mock polls and forums on two state legislative assembly elections last year (2007) and the number of posts exceeded 1000 for one state and 400 on the other one: http://www.jeetegakaun.in/gujarat_elections_2007/all_comments.php http://www.jeetegakaun.in/himachal_pradesh_elections_2007/all_comments.php What was particularly notable was a post by the then sitting Chief Minister of the state of Himachal Pradesh (authenticity of which was verified by us), followed up with a post from his Media Cell. This level of engagement with an almost unknown portal (we're not particularly well-known yet) indicates at least strong interest. We did receive our share of heated debates/posts and some protests/complaints while these two polls were active, as you've discussed in your post above. Finally, we're covering four more state elections presently (with some five more to come later this year) - it would be interesting to see where it all gets to. Hi Tim,

This is a very nice and comprehensive analysis of social networking related issues in India.

Based on our experience as it relates to social networking in India vis-à-vis politics, we can state that there seems to be at the least a considerable amount of interest in political matters from the online community here in India.

We ran mock polls and forums on two state legislative assembly elections last year (2007) and the number of posts exceeded 1000 for one state and 400 on the other one:

http://www.jeetegakaun.in/gujarat_elections_2007/all_comments.php
http://www.jeetegakaun.in/himachal_pradesh_elections_2007/all_comments.php

What was particularly notable was a post by the then sitting Chief Minister of the state of Himachal Pradesh (authenticity of which was verified by us), followed up with a post from his Media Cell.

This level of engagement with an almost unknown portal (we’re not particularly well-known yet) indicates at least strong interest.

We did receive our share of heated debates/posts and some protests/complaints while these two polls were active, as you’ve discussed in your post above.

Finally, we’re covering four more state elections presently (with some five more to come later this year) – it would be interesting to see where it all gets to.

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