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The Birth of Social Election in South Korea, 2010-2012
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 44 pp.
"By getting connected with each other again, social media users seem to have more incentive to vote because approval by friends becomes an integral part of benefits from voting. In South Korea this phenomenon came at the dusk of the 1987 regime, which is a conservative representation system where yo
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The New Media, Society & Politics in the Philippines
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 56 pp.
"The Philippines is a palimpsest where traditional, modern and postmodern influences manifest themselves contemporaneously. Its politics is traditional, its culture modern and its media postmodern. Understanding the role of new technologies, such as digital media, under these circumstances requires
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A Buzz in Cyberspace, But no Net-Revolution: The Role of the Internet in Singapore’s 2011 Elections
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 44 pp.
"The May 2011 general election has been the most contested and most discussed in Singapore’s history. Prior to the polls, the government relaxed the rules on election campaigning in the Internet. For the first time in the highly wired city-state with its tech-savvy population of 5 million people,
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Free Space of Expression: New Media and Thailand's Politics
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 72 pp.
"The rise of new media in Thailand has occurred during one of the toughest periods in Thailand’s recent political history. A political crisis since 2005 has created an increasingly divided society. Whilst Thailand’s press freedom was previously considered “free,” existing political challenge
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Beyond Click-Activism? New Media and Political Processes in Contemporary Indonesia
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 110 pp.
"We investigate the extent to which new media impacts upon political processes in Indonesia and the factors that affect it. Reflecting on the Indonesian political systems and structure, and detailing some empirical case studies on new media use, we argue that most uses of social media, including tho
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Politics in Cyberspace: New Media in Malaysia
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 56 pp.
"There seems little evidence that the rise and increasing availability and range of new media have given real reason to expect different political outcomes on grounds of new patterns of mobilization, particularly given a persistent “digital divide.” What has been happening, though, is an increas
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New Media Vs. Old Politics: The Internet, Social Media, and Democratisation in Pakistan
Berlin; Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 72 pp.
"It has to be underlined that this study does not see the internet as a major remedy for the development of political culture and civil society that is so essential for Pakistan’s further democratic consolidation. To understand possible contributions of the new information technologies towards pol
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