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 reference to the seminal socio-political
events of 2007-2012 including the 2008 General Elections, Bersih
and Hindraf rallies, this book provides a clear explanation for new
media's prominence in the multi-ethnic and majority Islamic society
of Malaysia today. It is of interest to academics working in the
field of Media and Internet Studies and Southeast Asian Politics.
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