Road Safety Movement in Bangladesh

Abstract

Road safety movement in Bangladesh was the largest ever crowed public movement in Bangladesh. Due to accidental death of two college student, this movement raised. Like many other recent movement around the world we see a huge contribution of social media related to the protest. We can say, we see a parallel contribution of Twitter on every protest. May be it was “Arab Spring”, indigenous protest in Spain or any protest. We see the power of hashtags in all recent movements. In this paper we tried to give a comparative analysis between ground protest and Twitter. For Ground protest information we collect newspaper front page coverage because there is no way to collect information of that old days. After collecting newspaper old copies we try to find out what actually happened on that moment. We see the headlines of the newspaper and see how it reflects the ground protest. Then we make a percentage of these information. We make figure of them. Another information source was Twitter. Due to unavailability of Twitter information using API .We use a social media monitoring tool to collect Twitter hashtags information during the protest. After that we made a comparative analysis of newspapers coverage as ground protest nature and Twitter hashtags information’s. Finally we found a tight relationship between ground protest and Twitter activities.