Digital Activism in Asia Reader
Dublin Core
Title
Digital Activism in Asia Reader
Subject
Activism
Asia
Digital Media
Networked Societies
Description
The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digital shall be used for, and what its consequences will be, are both up for speculation and negotiation.
Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West’s attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia.
This reader crowd-sources critical tools, concepts, analyses, and annotations, self-identified by a network of change makers in Asia as important in their own practices within their own contexts.
Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West’s attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia.
This reader crowd-sources critical tools, concepts, analyses, and annotations, self-identified by a network of change makers in Asia as important in their own practices within their own contexts.
Creator
Nishant Shah
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
Publisher
meson press
Date
2015
Format
Print
PDF
EPUB
Language
English
Type
Edited Book
Identifier
ISBN Print: 978-3-95796-050-4
ISBN PDF: 978-3-95796-052-8
ISBN EPUB: 978-3-95796-052-8
DOI: 10.14619/013
Book
Title
Digital Activism in Asia Reader
Publisher
meson press
Year Published
2015
Blurb
The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digital shall be used for, and what its consequences will be, are both up for speculation and negotiation.
Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West’s attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia.
This reader crowd-sources critical tools, concepts, analyses, and annotations, self-identified by a network of change makers in Asia as important in their own practices within their own contexts.
Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West’s attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia.
This reader crowd-sources critical tools, concepts, analyses, and annotations, self-identified by a network of change makers in Asia as important in their own practices within their own contexts.
Keywords
Activism
Asia
Digital Media
Networked Societies
ISBN Print
978-3-95796-050-4
ISBN PDF
978-3-95796-052-8
ISBN EPUB
978-3-95796-052-8
DOI
10.14619/013
Language
English
Type
Edited Book
Format
Print
PDF
EPUB
Files
Citation
Nishant Shah, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay, “Digital Activism in Asia Reader,” meson press repository, accessed January 17, 2025, http://omeka.meson.press/items/show/13.