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Case Study 2- The Cloggersphere
Case Study 2
Where Clogging may have started?
Cloggers question if the former King (or King Father), Norodom Sihanouk, was perhaps the first Cambodian to unknowingly started the trend of blogging.
Who is he?
Norodom Sihanouk, an 86-year-old monarch has been updating his web site daily since 2002. His staff updated the site with his views on “national affairs, correspondence with his admirers and news about his film-making hobby”.
Being fluent in Khmer, French, and English, he also posts communiqués and reactions to media reports on his sites, which became a new digital medium for global visitors. His comments and critics were also translated to Khmer and published in the media.
How did it influence the Cambodians?
The King’s online conversation and personal digital medium is inspiring young Cambodians to engage the Internet as a forum for discussion and debate, and to learn English as a second language. By posting his thoughts on social order and politics, the King encouraged the youths to discuss everyday small issues to large social issues on the Internet. This could be achieved via the use of online forums, chat rooms, and blogs.
The youths have honed good English language skills and an affinity for technology, They make up the largest number of Internet users in the country and are engaging actively in the Internet: Blogging, Debating, Forum etc. With the widespread use of English amongst peers and international online community and coupled with the difficulties to type Khmer language, this group of Internet users writes mostly in English.
They blog about any issues which range from corruption to food safety, displaying their personalities and views through their online journals.
Some cloggers..
Keo Kalyan, a 20 year old student, owns the blog "DeeDee, School Girl Genius! Khmer-Cyberkid." Everday, more than 200 visitors read her blog, which are usually written in pink. She managed to earn some revenue since Indian cosmetics company Shaadi began buying advertising space on her site.
"The money isn't much, but I'm happy my voice is being heard," Keo Kalyan said.
Blogger Be Chantra and his two other colleagues also travelled the country to train 2,000 students to blog. This was an initiative funded by Microsoft and United States aid agencies. Since then, Cambodia blogosphere scene has witnessed more than 1,000 Cambodians turning to blogging and most of them are students who began by their own initiative Currently Cloggers meet regularly and hold workshops to teach each other about new software applications
"If the Internet was cheaper, faster and easier to access there would be even more bloggers," said Be Chantra.
Where Clogging may have started?
Cloggers question if the former King (or King Father), Norodom Sihanouk, was perhaps the first Cambodian to unknowingly started the trend of blogging.
Who is he?
Norodom Sihanouk, an 86-year-old monarch has been updating his web site daily since 2002. His staff updated the site with his views on “national affairs, correspondence with his admirers and news about his film-making hobby”.
Being fluent in Khmer, French, and English, he also posts communiqués and reactions to media reports on his sites, which became a new digital medium for global visitors. His comments and critics were also translated to Khmer and published in the media.
How did it influence the Cambodians?
The King’s online conversation and personal digital medium is inspiring young Cambodians to engage the Internet as a forum for discussion and debate, and to learn English as a second language. By posting his thoughts on social order and politics, the King encouraged the youths to discuss everyday small issues to large social issues on the Internet. This could be achieved via the use of online forums, chat rooms, and blogs.
The youths have honed good English language skills and an affinity for technology, They make up the largest number of Internet users in the country and are engaging actively in the Internet: Blogging, Debating, Forum etc. With the widespread use of English amongst peers and international online community and coupled with the difficulties to type Khmer language, this group of Internet users writes mostly in English.
They blog about any issues which range from corruption to food safety, displaying their personalities and views through their online journals.
Some cloggers..
Keo Kalyan, a 20 year old student, owns the blog "DeeDee, School Girl Genius! Khmer-Cyberkid." Everday, more than 200 visitors read her blog, which are usually written in pink. She managed to earn some revenue since Indian cosmetics company Shaadi began buying advertising space on her site.
"The money isn't much, but I'm happy my voice is being heard," Keo Kalyan said.
Blogger Be Chantra and his two other colleagues also travelled the country to train 2,000 students to blog. This was an initiative funded by Microsoft and United States aid agencies. Since then, Cambodia blogosphere scene has witnessed more than 1,000 Cambodians turning to blogging and most of them are students who began by their own initiative Currently Cloggers meet regularly and hold workshops to teach each other about new software applications
"If the Internet was cheaper, faster and easier to access there would be even more bloggers," said Be Chantra.
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