FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND PUBLIC RESISTANCE AGAINST POLITICAL POWER IN PAKISTAN: AN ANALYSIS OF FACE BOOK POSTS

Abstract

Media has been playing very vital role in the development of public theology but after the emergence of social media, the trends have been changed. Freedom of thoughts and expressions are playing prestigious role in making resistance against the political ideologies and the power. The opinion given by public and the realities of the things are being illustrated through different parameters of discourses with help of cartoons and the symbols. The present study is qualitative in its nature describing the different ways of utterances for the purpose of making resistance against the political powers in Pakistan. The model are adopted for this study are Van Dijik,s (1998) and Fairclough (2003) with the semiotic analysis model of Zubair & Sijad (2010) which is  media oriented. The results of the study show that there is existing extremely satire and different terms are used to criticize the political power exploring in a way that the parties and their supporters are biased rather than realistic. The parties are only concern with their interests rather than ideologies.