Children and Public Street Protests – a Public Debate of Striking Immediacy in Romania. The Social Media and the Mass-media as Main Vectors to shape up the Dominant Threads of Opinion
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Children and Public Street Protestings – a Public Debate of Striking Immediacy in Romania. The Social media and the Mass-media as main vectors to shape up the dominant threads of opinion
The recent street events in Romania have ignited a public debate on the topic of children’s participation in the street protestings. The mass-media as well as thesocial mediahave generated and fueled two diverging streams of opinion: a domineeringone, maintaining that the children’s presence to such actions is nothing but a genuine practical application of democracy, and a second trend, represented in contrast by a minority claiming that children and infants fetched by their parents to the site of street demonstrations have a potential of becoming victims of political manipulation, being even exposed to risks of possible violence, even in cases of peaceful protesting. In the middle between these seemingly irreconcillable positions stand the experts, who in an attempt to display balanced views, discuss both risks and benefits, ultimately leaving it to the parents’ decision whether or not to take their children with them for the street demonstrations they wish to be part of.
Keywords: protests, children #rezist, Romania, social media, mass-media
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