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Tunvisit Doungploy
Aug 27, 2017 · 3 min read

Advocacy is to support or help people who lack of opportunity to voice out their rights. Such as we might be the representative for slum people to voice out their needs. However we need some tools to be something to help to transfer message from those people to any public organization which take care of those problems. This blog will talk about medium of message. There are many tools which can be medium to transfer the message.


First medium which I would like to talk about is Facebook. Facebook is social media platform which we can post anything inside. So there are many page which being the platform to advocate their voice. For example it has one Facebook page name “ศูนย์คนหาย มูลนิธิกระจกเงา”

Facebook: The Mirror Foundation

This is the page owned by The mirror foundation. This page aims to be the medium to help people who would like to find the person who lost. People can post the information of people who lost and they want to find. So this page will be platform to voice less for people who lack of opportunity to voice their rights.

Another famous tools is twitter. We can see from Hashtag in twitter when there are something happened. Nowadays has a lot of terrorize or some criminal situation such as in Paris or London. So there are a lot of hashtag such as #prayforparis or #prayforlondon

Example hashtag for victims

Hashtag above which I show is the example of hashtag which talk about criminal situation in many country. This will be gathering people who talk about those situation. It might be one of the way to show spirit to victim in those situation. When victims see these comment and hashtag, it might be they way to let them fight and do not forgive to the problem which they faced.

Moreover it has another media which is very popular trend nowadays which is “change.org”. This is the website which will ask for people who vote for some campaign. This is similar to offline media which we ask for signature to change something. But this is different because this is online platform and easy to get in touch with. However this might not be the way that we can change regulation or law, but this might be one of many way which can advocate people who do not has much opportunity to voice out their rights. For example in the past there are one campaign which people ask for signature to change the law of murder from only get arrested to be put to death.

change.org logo

To conclude, there are many way to help people whether offline or online approach. However in my opinion is better way to advocate people’s voice. Because as every people knows online platform is easy to access and easy to use. So it will be the way to disseminate the campaign or issue easily.

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