{"id":346,"date":"2006-08-24T08:54:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T13:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/sms-text-messaging-as-a-political-social-tool\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:41:14","slug":"sms-text-messaging-as-a-political-social-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/sms-text-messaging-as-a-political-social-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"SMS Text Messaging as a Political &#038; Social Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmobs.com\/archive\/2006\/08\/22\/wikipedia_on_sm.html\">SmartMobs<\/a> for drawing attention to a Wikipedia entry that lists some of the interesting ways that mass SMS text messaging has been involved in current political and social situations:<\/p>\n<p>* In January 2001, Joseph Estrada was forced to resign from the post of president of the Philippines. The popular campaign against him was widely reported to have been co-ordinated with SMS chain letters.<\/p>\n<p>* In the wake of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, SMS was used to garner support for large protest rallies. It became known as &#8220;the night of short text messages&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>* During the 2004 Philippine presidential elections, short message was a popular form of electoral campaigning for and against candidates such as incumbent president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and main contender Fernando Poe, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>* In March of 2005, SMS was one of the communications forms used to garner support for the Lebanese political rallies.<\/p>\n<p>* The Islamic Republic of Iran disabled their nationwide SMS network during the 2005 Iranian Presidential elections elections in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected President. Some Western commentators have op&#8217;ed that this was orchestrated to help get Ahmadinejad elected and to quell political uprising.<\/p>\n<p>* Political organisations such as Cymru X, the Plaid Cymru youth wing, and the Young Scots for Independence, the youth wing of the Scottish National Party, have used a &#8220;text referendum&#8221; to gain public support and raise the profile of their respective causes. The YSI are currently running text referenda on Scottish independence, nuclear weapons, and a St Andrew&#8217;s Day public holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to SmartMobs for drawing attention to a Wikipedia entry that lists some of the interesting ways that mass SMS text messaging has been involved in current political and social situations: * In January 2001, Joseph Estrada was forced to resign from the post of president of the Philippines. The popular campaign against him was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/sms-text-messaging-as-a-political-social-tool\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from SMS Text Messaging as a Political &#038; Social Tool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6270,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}