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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Madeline Earp, Laura W. Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Ashley Greco-Stoner (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.

"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more

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The New Media and Malaysian Politics in Historical Perspective

Thomas B. Pepinsky

Contemporary Southeast Asia, volume 35, issue 1 (2013), pp. 83-103

"Drawing on a historical approach to Malaysia's political development since independence, this paper argues that the political effects of the rise of Malaysia's new media are best understood as being parallel to those of modernization and socio-economic change from previous decades, which augured im ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.

"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r ... more

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The "social Tsunami": Media Coverage of Child Abuse in Malaysia's English-Language Newspapers in 2010

Sara Niner, Yarina Ahmad, Denise Cuthbert

Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 4 (2013), pp. 435-453

"Since the early 1990s, Malaysian society has displayed a deepening concern over steady increases in reported cases of child abuse in the country. For many Malaysians, knowledge of this issue comes from the mainstream media. This research analyses media coverage of child abuse in two mainstream Engl ... more

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Special Issue on Youth, ICTs, and Civic Engagement in Asia

Weiyu Zhang, Emmanuel C. Lallana (eds.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 3 (2013), pp. 249-337

"The articles collected in this special issue share a common focus: young adults’ use of new media for civic engagement in South and Southeast Asia. Youth engagement problems are evident when established democracies witness a decline in youth participation in traditional civic activities (e.g., vo ... ting) compared to the participation levels of older generations. MacKinnon et al. (2007) stated, ‘[y]outh are turned off by the game of partisan politics and increasingly refuse to learn or apply the rules. In large measure, they are reinventing civic and political engagement.’ We began our project with the observation that the youth in South and Southeast Asia demonstrate distinctive patterns of civic and political engagement, and we sought information about whether these patterns are a consequence of a generational shift or a result of contextual changes, such as those in political systems and media technologies. We examined two propositions that are often associated with youth engagement and new media. First, new media change the relationship between youth and existing political systems. Second, new media change the nature of civic engagement itself, especially for the youth. As we inquired further, we found that using established democracies as our reference point might have been incorrect. The difference between the so-called young or semi-democracies and established or mature democracies is not that the former is an inadequate version of the latter. Instead, the political systems found in South and Southeast Asia have their own characteristics, and these systems cannot be simply classified as a lack of democratic components. The same thing can be said about new media. The difference between the region in question and other regions, such as North America and Europe, is not that the former lacks access to technologies that are common in the latter. Instead, the type and use of technologies in the region show unique patterns that cannot be simply defined as less advanced. When we refer to the region, we make no attempt to generate a singular discourse for all the countries involved. Instead, we are highly sensitive to the diversity presented in the individual cases that belong to the region in this study. The end product, therefore, becomes a juxtaposition of multiple reference points that can be not only compared to established democracies but also compared to the other countries in Asia." (Page 249) more

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Data Journalism in Asia: A Collection of Articles from Members of the Society of Asian Journalists (SAJ)

Simon Winkelmann (ed.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 90 pp.

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Social Media and Elections in Asia-Pacific: The Growing Power of the Youth Vote

Alastair Carthew, Simon Winkelmann (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 164 pp.

"Undoubtedly, politicians have awoken to the political power of social media and it will be increasingly adopted as a mainstream means of information distribution and communications as voters and young people are becoming more politically active in a number of the jurisdictions surveyed in this book ... more

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News Consumption Behavior of Young Adults in Malaysia

Karen Sabina Freeman

International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), pp. 121-124

"News consumption has been undergoing massive changes due to advances of digitization. In this context, analyzing readers’ consumption behavior is pertinent. This study explores the news consumption behavior of young adults in Malaysia. The methodology is based on a quantitative survey of college ... more

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ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness

Nor Aziah Alias

New York: Springer (2013), viii, 46 pp.

"ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet. The book surveys the principles of ICT for development (ICTD), and closely examines how ICT has p ... more

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Politics in Cyberspace: New Media in Malaysia

Meredith L. Weiss

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 ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

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The Media Landscape in 28 Countries: Results from a UIS Pilot Survey

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012), 84 pp.

"This paper presents the results of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) pilot survey on media statistics conducted in 28 countries in 2011. The survey instruments were designed to provide an initial set of quantitative indicators identified by UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators project. G ... more

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Internet und Demokratie

Frederik Holst, Wolfram Schaffar (eds.)

Wien: Mandelbaum (2012), 124 pp.

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Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.; Ottawa et al.: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2012), xv, 414 pp.

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Steht auf für Gerechtigkeit: Arbeitsbuch zum Weltgebetstag Malaysia 2012. Ideen und Informationen

Petra Heilig (ed.)

Stein: Deutsches Weltgebetstagskomitee (2012), 269 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.

"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more

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The Social Media (R)evolution? Asian Perspectives on New Media

Simon Winkelmann (ed.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Asia (2012), 188 pp.

"A compilation of 13 articles that discuss social media developments and trends in Asia. For this publication we invited eleven alumni from the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines to share their views on social media issues based o ... more

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Public Relations Education in Malaysia and the Philippines: A Comparative Snapshot and Preliminary Assessment

Zeny Sarabia-Panol, Marianne D. Sison

In: Asian Communication Handbook

Sundeep R. Muppidi (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2012), pp. 76-85

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Digital Politics and Political Engagement

John Postill

In: Digital Anthropology

Heather A. Horst; Daniel Miller (eds.)

London: Berg (2012), pp. 165-184

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Asian Communication Handbook
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Sundeep R. Muppidi (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2012), 466 pp.

"The first "theoretical perspectives" section has opinions and research articles by academic scholars and expert practitioners on new media and communication Issues and trends in Asia. Some of the topics covered include the dynamics arising out of the shift to the 'digilogue', mobile activism, corpo ... more

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