Those Eyes Brooding Over Us: Possibilities of Resistancein and through Facebook

Abstract

The very fact that there is much scholarly discussions and research conducted on social media bears wi multifarious influence and impact of social media on our mundane life. Among many popular so Facebook occupies a central space and it has received much value especially since its crucial involveme Arab Springs. Although many Facebook users who endorse its radicalism think that Facebook has ope avenues for the obliteration of parochial ideas and values, detractors of Facebook reject it as a re pernicious material. The main objective of this study was to identify whether Facebook opens up sp annihilation of parochial values and ritualized practices. Although Facebook is associated simultane modernity, youth, knowledge, freedom, change and so on, it was found that Facebook perpetuates no sexism, homophobia, religious-chauvinism, ethnocentrism and reaffirm stereotypes. And it was also ide the rapid invasion of parochialism in Facebook influences the political, cultural and even econom making of Facebook users. By and large, the present study argues that resistance in and through F subdued in the Lankan context by the instantaneous overflow of counter-resistance of the majority o users who are nationalist, sexist, homophobic, and so on. Consequently, opportunities to problematiz sense and transcend dogma in the Sri Lankan society in this manner are quite limited.