Digital Authoritarianism and its Religious Legitimization - The Cases of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and India (1st ed. 2023)

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies. In doing so, it explains how digital authoritarianism operates at various technological levels including sub-network level, proxy level, and user level, and elaborates on how governments seek to control cyberspace and social media. In each of these states, governments, in an effort to prolong – or even make permanent – their rule, seek to eliminate freedom of expression on the internet, punish dissidents, and spread pro-state propaganda. At the same time, they instrumentalize religion to justify and legitimize digital authoritarianism. Governments in these five countries, to varying degrees and at times using different methods, censor the internet, but also use digital technology to generate public support for their policies, key political figures, and at times their worldview or ideology. They also, and again to varying degrees, use digital technology to demonize religious and ethnic minorities, opposition parties, and political dissidents. An understanding of these aspects would help scholars and the public understand both the technical and social aspects of digital authoritarianism in these five countries.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	September 2023
Editors:	Ihsan Yilmaz
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Pages:	140
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-981-9935-99-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	981-9935-99-7
Barcode:	9789819935994

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