New media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet
In the four decades or so since its invention, the Internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advanc...
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| description | In the four decades or so since its invention, the Internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advancement improves their nation’s socio-economic conditions, they also worry about its cultural and political effects. This book examines how this set of dynamics operates through its study of new media in contemporary Malaysian society. Using the social imaginary framework and adopting a socio-historical approach, the book explains the varied understandings of new media as a continuing process wherein individuals and their societies operate in tandem to create, negotiate and enact the meaning ascribed to concepts and ideas. In doing so, it also highlights the importance of non-users to national technological policies. Through its examination of the ideation and development of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor mega project to date and with reference to the seminal socio-political events of 2007-12, including the 2008 General Elections and the Bersih and Hindraf rallies, the book provides a clear explanation for new media’s prominence in the multi-ethnic and majority Islamic society of Malaysia today. It will be of interest to academics working in the fields of Media and Internet Studies, and Southeast Asian Politics. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-245292017-01-30T12:43:31Z New media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet Leong, Susan Bersih social imaginary race nation Multimedia Super Corridor national technological policies Castoriadis non-users Malaysia internet GE08 Charles Taylor Hindraf Alfred Schutz In the four decades or so since its invention, the Internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advancement improves their nation’s socio-economic conditions, they also worry about its cultural and political effects. This book examines how this set of dynamics operates through its study of new media in contemporary Malaysian society. Using the social imaginary framework and adopting a socio-historical approach, the book explains the varied understandings of new media as a continuing process wherein individuals and their societies operate in tandem to create, negotiate and enact the meaning ascribed to concepts and ideas. In doing so, it also highlights the importance of non-users to national technological policies. Through its examination of the ideation and development of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor mega project to date and with reference to the seminal socio-political events of 2007-12, including the 2008 General Elections and the Bersih and Hindraf rallies, the book provides a clear explanation for new media’s prominence in the multi-ethnic and majority Islamic society of Malaysia today. It will be of interest to academics working in the fields of Media and Internet Studies, and Southeast Asian Politics. 2013 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24529 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | Bersih social imaginary race nation Multimedia Super Corridor national technological policies Castoriadis non-users Malaysia internet GE08 Charles Taylor Hindraf Alfred Schutz Leong, Susan New media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet |
| title | New media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet |
| title_full | New media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet |
| title_fullStr | New media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet |
| title_full_unstemmed | New media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet |
| title_short | New media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet |
| title_sort | new media and the nation in malaysia: malaysianet |
| topic | Bersih social imaginary race nation Multimedia Super Corridor national technological policies Castoriadis non-users Malaysia internet GE08 Charles Taylor Hindraf Alfred Schutz |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24529 |