Internet in Indonesia''s New Democracy

Informationen zum Autor David T. Hill is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Murdoch University, Western Australia, where he is a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre on Social, Political and Economic Change. His publications include The Press in New Order Indonesia (1994, 1995) and Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia (2000, co-authored with Krishna Sen). Krishna Sen is Professor of Asian Media, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. She has written extensively on the media in Indonesia. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Murdoch University's Asia Research Centre, a Councillor of the Australian Asian Studies Association and editorial board member of several media studies journals. Klappentext Questioning the connection between media, technology and democracy, this text examines the emergence of the internet in Indonesia and how the country is using and being changed by the web. Zusammenfassung Questioning the connection between media, technology and democracy, this text examines the emergence of the internet in Indonesia and how the country is using and being changed by the web. It develops a way of thinking about the Internet within the limits of geo-political categories of nations and provinces. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Analysing the Internet in Indonesia  2. Indonesian Media and Computer Mediated Communications  3. Net Challenge to the New Order  4. Who is on the Net in Indonesia?  5. Communication for a New Democracy: Election On-line  6. Communication for a New Nation: Timor On-Line  7. Communal Conflict: Maluku On-Line  8. Conclusion: A Technology for Democracy in Indonesia?

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• Authors: David T. Hill, David T. (National University of Singapore Hill, David T. Sen Hill, T. Hill David, HILL DAVID T SEN KRISHNA, Krishna Sen, Krishna (Curtin University of Technology Sen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9780415470261
• ISBN: 978-0-415-47026-1
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com; Asia's Transformations/Asia.com
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Südostasien