ABSTRACT
Vernacularized online media practices, it seems, breaches public sphere norms of producing rational social relations and space public space mediated and moderated by reasoned arguments, open to scrutiny, and can generate consensus. Such influence of online media practices reflects the communicative effects of vernacularized messages on peace activism. Online media practices in this sense are outcomes of new social relations and actions of the citizens online it enables surveillance, cyber-bullying, online as community space, or online as space for monitoring and early warning mechanisms, producing new social relations and practices. Online media practices as social spaces thus implicate the mainstream media spaces that claim to be 'national'. The emerging online media practices appear to layer the public media spaces with a multiplicity of information sources and voices from diversified or reinforced social spaces and relations. The emerging online media practices (re)create new social relations and social spaces.
