Old and New Media: Converging During the Pakistan Emergency

This is a research paper that addresses the knowledge gap about new media and democracy in the developing world, examines how digital technologies – such as cellphones and live internet streams – and new media platforms – including blogs, YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook – were used to access information, organize political action, generate hyperlocal news reports, and promote citizen journalism during the "Pakistan Emergency," a period of heightened political instability between March 2007 and February 2008.