Blogging and democratization in Malaysia : a new civil society in the making / Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim.
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Includes bibliographical references (page [146]-151).
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Blogging and democratization in Malaysia : a new civil society in the making / Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim.
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Zawawi Ibrahim.
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"The blogging phenomenon has been credited with playing an important part in the historic results of the 2008 General Election. It has also been lauded with the democratization of Malaysian public life in general. Here the authors have put together hard data coupled with interesting interviews with the main players to bring the discussion of blogs out of the realm of punditry and the anecdotal into a more studied empirical sociological sphere. For that, it is a significant work which hopefully would pave the way for similar efforts at studying the impact of new technologies on democracy in Malaysia"--Cover.