Wokha, October 8 (MExN): The District Executive Force (DEF) Wokha in collaboration with Witter Theological College (WTC) organised awareness programme on use of social media through street play on October 8 at Police Point, Wokha.
Delivering the key note address Principal Witter Theological College, Vankhosung said, “we live in an era of technology with multiple media platforms to disseminate information. And such means transmit information in macro level and there is every possibility to proliferate rumours and other forms of false information.”
“False information can create not only terror and fear psychosis but provoke misunderstanding, communal hatred and communal violence. Today, as responsible citizens, the need of the hour is to control the spread of false information and rumours, one of the ways to engage in nation building can be through healthy and transparent communication,” he stated.
Later the students of WTC performed a street play on ‘Fake news on child lifting’, ‘Blackmailing’, and ‘internet fraud’. The play touches on how our ancestors in the olden days believed in the communitarian way of life where unity, truthfulness, sharing of wealth and life and helping one another during good and bad times as well as even during cultivation were the ethos on which the society was based. Even in the lives of the young people, there exists the love of a communitarian life.
Further, through the street play, he appealed to all section of people to collectively participate in the fight against false information, rumours that have taken place and is taking place in our society.
It was stated in a DIPR report that the function was chaired by S. Ekonthung Ezung while vote of thanks was proposed by Addl. SP Wokha, Tumchobemo Yanthan.
