Nowadays social media has been important part of one’s life.
Social media plays a vital role in transforming people’s life style. It
includes social networking sites and blogs where people can easily connect with
each other. With that currently media involve many fields including economics,
social development and even with war. After the emergence of social media, now
each and every field seems a new revolution with in them.
The block on social media
including Facebook and Whats App and Instagram services have announced by the Sri
Lanka government’s official news portal, which cited the spread of “false news
reports” online. The main purpose of this research is to find out that how it
seems the freedom of expression and freedom of speech in social media after the
Easter Sunday attacks. This paper deals with the users of social media and
their views on this, so the audience analysis/reception analysis was used as a
methodology to analyze. For this reception analysis, the researcher has included
all ethnicity of students from University of Jaffna. In that way, the
researcher has selected 20 students from each ethnicity, such as Sinhala,
Tamil and Muslim, totally altogether 60 students were used as receptions.
Questionnaires were distributed among those students and focus group
discussions were also conducted by the researcher and those information were
used as primary data. Further, research articles, books, journals were used as
secondary data. The hypothesis of this research is the freedom of expression
and speeches in social media are controlled/limited aftermath the Easter
attack. Two-step follow theory and social learning theory were used as the
theories of this research. Finally, the conclusion of this research is that,
among 60 students 30 students were replied the banned of social media on these
time is no need. It is not an essential; even the freedom of expression is
limited among its users.
Keywords: Social media, Easter Sunday, attack, banning, freedom
of speech
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