Cambodia How to think of social media activism in Cambodia February 13, 2020 0 Image Credit: "Cambodian Flag" by Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D./ flickr; licence CC0 1.0. Written by Mun Vong. In Cambodia, Facebook is social media. When it swept across…
Elections The dynamics of social media and the Indian Elections 2019 April 12, 2019 1 Written by Amit Prakash. Everything about the Indian elections is grand: about 900 million electors cast their vote over a month-and-a-half to elect 543 members…
Learning through Facebook Transforming second language (L2) learning in Pakistan using Facebook March 25, 2019 0 Written by Tanzeela Anbreen. In recent years, social media have been gaining popularity in terms of social connections around the world. Researchers such as Godwin-Jones…
Burma/Myanmar Facebook, hate speech and civil society in Myanmar March 18, 2019 0 Written by Lisa Brooten. Social media have clearly provided outlets for the voices of those in many countries around the world who are frustrated by…
Civil society Indonesia’s quest for tolerance: Everyday social media talk and spreading the ‘virus of peace’ March 14, 2019 0 Written by Dayana Lengauer. Tolerance in majority Muslim Indonesia is associated, among other things, with the national motto ‘unity in diversity’, state-recognised religious pluralism, and…
Activism Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia? March 14, 2019 0 Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…
Business Sanitising and scrutinising social media in Singapore – fake news or just politics? March 13, 2019 2 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Singapore seems ready to add another feather to its cap as the ‘hub capital’ of ASEAN after Facebook…
China Translation in Activism and Cyber-nationalism in China. September 22, 2016 1 Written by Guobin Yang. On January 20, 2016, young nationalists in the PRC, now nicknamed Little Pink, launched an “expedition” from the popular Baidu message…
Internet The ‘Voluntary Fifty-Cent Army’ in Chinese Cyberspace February 29, 2016 0 Written by Rongbin Han. On October 15, 2014, President Xi Jinping met and lauded Zhou Xiaoping and Hua Qianfang at the high-profile “Forum on Literature and…
China Chat and Mouse: The Online Game of Indirect Deliberation April 28, 2015 0 Written by Nele Noesselt. Following the so-called Twitter and Facebook ‘revolutions’ of the Arab Spring, digital communication technologies and social media have, once again, been hyped…