Development Modi and the watchmen: India’s national security election April 10, 2019 0 Written by Ian Hall. Barely a couple of months ago, it looked as though Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies were going…
Elections Indian Elections 2019: Social media and fake news April 1, 2019 0 Written by Parama Sinha Palit. India – which with close to 900 million registered voters is the most populous democracy in the world – is…
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…
Cambodia Southeast Asia – drifting towards Digital Authoritarianism? March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jason Abbott. In the West, the principal concern of most digital activists relates to privacy issues surrounding the collection of data by governments…
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…
Asia Human trafficking and the use of social media: Keeping up with the criminals January 11, 2019 0 Written by Foo Yen Ne and Tamara Nair. Commentary Photographs of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, an abused Indonesian domestic worker who was undernourished, badly bruised and hardly…
Elections Pakistan Elections: the role of social media October 15, 2018 0 Written by Khalid Jarral The Pakistan elections of 2018 were the first time that the voters had the ability to engage in a two-way communication…
China China and the Internet: Great Firewall or Panopticon? September 5, 2018 0 Written by Jason Abbott. The Chinese government operates one of the most extensive systems of Internet censorship anywhere in the world. Colloquially referred to outside…
Pakistan Social media: awakening, liberating and empowering the Pakistani voters July 4, 2018 1 Written by Khalid Jarral. In the run-up to the general elections in Pakistan social media continues to awaken, liberate and empower the Pakistani voters. Unlike the…
