Asia India & COVID-19: Misinformation and the Downside of Social Media April 6, 2020 0 Image Credit: WhatsApp by haberlernet NET/Flickr, License: CC Public Domain Mark 1.0. Written by Parama Sinha Palit. As the world fights COVID-19 (coronavirus), the online…
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…
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…
