Overview
- Expands the discourse of online communities in Malaysia beyond the typical Sino-Malayo centric lenses
- Elaborates on the duality of social media in both empowering and oppressing those in the margins
- Presents in-depth case studies of communities that has never been written about in terms of the new media
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Keywords
- Malaysian Online Studies
- Malaysian New Media
- Malaysian Online Communities
- Malaysian Marginalised Communities
- Malaysian Indigenous Online Communities
- Migration and Refugees in Malaysia
- Malaysian Indian Online Communities
- Malaysian LGBTQ+ Online Communities
- Malaysian Islamic Online Movements
- Malaysian Sikh Online Community
Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Indigenous Rights and Representation
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The “Othered” Minorities
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James Chin is a professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania. He was the inaugural director of the Asia Institute Tasmania and the founding head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences of the Malaysian campus of Monash University. He is also a senior fellow at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, and wasa senior visiting fellow at Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (now the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute). He is widely regarded as the leading scholar of contemporary Malaysian politics, especially on Sabah and Sarawak. Prior to an academic career, he worked as a journalist in Malaysia and Singapore.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Media in the Margins
Book Subtitle: Lived Realities and Experiences from the Malaysian Peripheries
Editors: Benjamin YH Loh, James Chin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7141-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7140-2Published: 15 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7143-3Published: 16 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-7141-9Published: 13 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 194
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Communication, Digital/New Media, Political Science