{"id":4403,"date":"2009-07-04T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2009-07-04T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T01:08:24","slug":"twitter-politics-can-tweets-change-our-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/twitter-politics-can-tweets-change-our-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter &#038; Politics: Can Tweets Change Our Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday in Roppongi, Tokyo,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/e\">Glocom<\/a> (Global Communication Center, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuj.ac.jp\/\">International Univ. of Japan<\/a>) held a workshop focusing on how we can take advantage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a> for improving our politics.<br \/>\nInvited panelists are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fumijp.blogspot.com\/\">Fumi Yamazaki<\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Fumi\">@Fumi<\/a>), freelance researcher and former project manager for <a href=\"http:\/\/joilab.ito.com\/\">Joi Lab<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garage.co.jp\/en\/\">Digital Garage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daisuke_Tsuda_%28journalist%29\">Daisuke Tsuda<\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tsuda\">@tsuda<\/a>), freelance IT journalist and recently reporting on Twitter about undergoing developments about an event when attending it, and Japanese twitterers call that behavior &#8220;<em>Tsuda-ru<\/em>&#8221; (an Internet slang) after his name.    Now it is a boom among people who use Twitter and frequently attend social events around the corners in Tokyo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ga9.jp\/\">Gaku Hashimoto[J]<\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ga9_h\">@ga9_h<\/a>),  known as one of two diet members who have their own Twitter accounts and often post Twitter messages about their perspectives and undergoing developments in the parliament house.   A son of former Japanese prime minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.odn.ne.jp\/~cap47570\/hasimoto\/top.html\">Ryutaro Hashimoto[J]<\/a>(deceased).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr. Tsuda&#8217;s presentation  was being reported by an audience on Twitter, in other words, was &#8220;<em>Tsuda-rareru<\/em>&#8221; (the passive voice of &#8220;<em>Tsuda-ru<\/em>&#8220;) at the event, but he seemed to have complaint about what it is called.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twitter is originally intended for telling updates around its users to their friends, and it is so natural that every tweet reflects what they see and hear.   I call the behavior not &#8220;report&#8221; but &#8220;live in text&#8221; since I want to emphasize a function of Twitter as media, which allows us to tell others something without subjective relief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Yamazaki presented on how Twitter plays a role for Iranian protest against presidential election results, and introduced Twitter had shifted scheduled system maintenance to avoid hampering message posts by protesters.<br \/>\nIt is said that Japanese diet members using Twitter are only two guys, who are Gaku Hashimoto from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimin.jp\/jimin\/english\/\">LDP (Liberal Democratic Party)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www5a.biglobe.ne.jp\/~niseko\/\">Seiji Ohsaka[J]<\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/seiji_ohsaka\">@seiji_ohsaka<\/a>) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpj.or.jp\/english\/\">DPJ (Democratic Party of Japan)<\/a>.   Mr. Ohsaka is known because he has reported the debate between party heads on Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/articles\/2009\/06\/29\/pol_twitter\/?rt=na\">Mycomi Journal interviewed him on this[J]<\/a>).   The extremely small number of diet members using Twitter easily reminds us why there&#8217;s no significant developments on the talks to revise the public officers election law as more suitable for the Internet-based community.<br \/>\nThis report was abridged from <a href=\"http:\/\/socweb.blog80.fc2.com\/\">Umihiko Namekawa<\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/namekawa01\/\">@namekawa01<\/a>)&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.techcrunch.com\/archives\/20090701twpo\/\">article<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.techcrunch.com\/\">TechCrunch Japan<\/a> under their approval for the quotation.<br \/>\n&#8220;Twitter and Politics&#8221; event was organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/read.jst.go.jp\/public\/cs_ksh_008EventAction.do?action4=event&#038;lang_act4=E&#038;judge_act4=2&#038;knkysh_name_code=6000009058\">Masahiko Shoji<\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mshouji\">@mshoji<\/a>), Chief Researcher for Glocom, International Univ. of Japan.<br \/>\nAll tweets on the event are tagged with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23twpo\">#twpo on Twitter[J]<\/a>.<br \/>\nPresentation slides used at the event are available below:<br \/>\nTwitter Overview (by Fumi Yamazaki)<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=twitter-090630233518-phpapp02&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=twitter-1665366\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=twitter-090630233518-phpapp02&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=twitter-1665366\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nTwitter and Iranian Protest (by Fumi Yamazaki)<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=iran-glocom-090630233920-phpapp02&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=twitter-1665380\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=iran-glocom-090630233920-phpapp02&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=twitter-1665380\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nJapanese Characterestic on Using Twitter (by Daisuke Tsuda)<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=2009-0630twitter-090630234727-phpapp01&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=twitter-1665398\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=2009-0630twitter-090630234727-phpapp01&#038;rel=0&#038;stripped_title=twitter-1665398\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday in Roppongi, Tokyo, Glocom (Global Communication Center, International Univ. of Japan) held a workshop focusing on how we can take advantage of Twitter for improving our politics. Invited panelists are: Fumi Yamazaki(@Fumi), freelance researcher and former project manager for Joi Lab, Digital Garage. Daisuke Tsuda(@tsuda), freelance IT journalist and recently reporting on Twitter&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/twitter-politics-can-tweets-change-our-society\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter &#038; Politics: Can Tweets Change Our Society?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,11,17,24,32,36],"tags":[842,1280,1375,2226,2916,3265,3856,3865],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-event-report","category-japan","category-news","category-society","category-trend","tag-daisuke-tsuda","tag-fumi-yamazaki","tag-glocom","tag-masahiko-shoji","tag-politics","tag-seiji-ohsaka","tag-twitter","tag-twpo","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}