In modern representative democracy, election is considered as the most significant way of producing and promoting democracy. To successfully accomplish the electoral process, manifold groups, such as political parties, and citizens participate in political activities. However, this practice is evolving over times, and in modern world, digital media has emerged as a game changer in electoral participation. Bangladesh with a skyrocketing number of cyber-dwellers is not lagging in this race. In the last decade, an apparent paradigm shift has taken place, and prior public sphere has become digitalized. A huge portion of people are no longer interested to interact in physical context before online. Since the invading digital cyberspace overshadowed the existing political platforms, participants along with traditional media are also following the tide. In such circumstances, this research investigates and analyses how various political actors participated in the 11 th Jatiya Sangsad Election of Bangladesh through digital media; and explores the dynamics of this communicative environment extrapolating a few unique propositions.
This a qualitative macro study conducted on Bangladesh society to reveal how religious communities interact in cyberspace and outside. Although prior study in this specific field is, to some extent, rare in Bangladesh, this research is an unique addition in the field of digital sociology and sociology of religion. In this study, rigorous observation and analysis have been presented backed up by selected and authentic data from secondary sources.
The research is mainly based on observation, content analysis and secondary sources. In Bangladesh, religious practice in digital platform is rising rapidly which gained no concern from researcher yet. That's why availability of prior study is absent and I had to generate new idea and explanations to accomplish the study. Therefore, this research is an unique addition in the field of Digital Sociology.
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