Budding democracy gets boost from widespread use of Sri Lanka social media among youth voters | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

What role (if any) did social media play in the recently concluded General Elections on 17 August 2015? Many are asking this question – and coming up with different answers. That is characteristic of the cyber realm: there is no single right answer when it comes to a multi-faceted and fast-evolving phenomenon like social media. Shortly…