Social Media and Socio-Political Change: An Asian Perspective

Abstract

With the widespread adoption of social media in many Asian societies, these platforms are increasingly used in a variety of ways to promote civic and political aims but such uses are shaped by various stakeholders and contexts of use. In this special issue, four papers on Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and China-Australia present highly contextualized assessments of the role of social media in civic and political life in Asia.

Keywords

• Asia
• Social Media
• eDemocracy
• Blogosphere
• Political Communication
• Crises