Weeks after a watershed general election in Singapore, the influential role played by social media to dramatically transform political debate in this affluent city- state continues to reverberate through cyberspace.
"This election was a landmark because it marks the country’s transition out of fear," said James Gomez, executive director of Singaporeans for Democracy, a local think tank. "Young people, in particular, those who voted for the first time, have become politically socialised through the social media and are very much part of this transition." Full story
