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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “merlyna lim”
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  • Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia

    by Merlyna Lim ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
    This Element endeavors to enrich and broaden Southeast Asian research by exploring the intricate interplay between social media and politics. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and grounded in extensive longitudinal research, the study uncovers nuanced political implications, highlighting the platform's dual role in both fostering grassroots activism and enabling autocratic practices of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Contesting Media Power

    Alternative Media in a Networked World

    by James Curran, Chris Atton, Lance Bennett, Rodney Benson, John Downing, Larry Gross, Chin-Chuan Lee, Tamar Liebes, Merlyna Lim, Sharon Ling0, Michael Meadows1, Christine Morris2, Andrea Press3, Terhi Rantanen4, Clemencia Rodriguez5, Keyan Tomaselli6, Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli7, Elena Vartanova8, Lennart Weibull9, Yuezhi Zhao0 ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Online Collective Action

    Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media

    Edited by Nitin Agarwal, Merlyna Lim, Rolf T. Wigand ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This work addresses the gap in the current collective action literature exposed by the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The book offers a rigorous and systematic investigation of both methodological and theoretical underpinnings and, thus, collectively promotes a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Regulating Platforms

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world. As the internet has become increasingly platformized, with a small number of technology giants that dominate the global digital economy, concerns about information monopolies, hateful online content, and the impact on media content creators and creative industries have become more marked. Consequently governments, politicians, and civil society ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $280.79 USD

  • Technocolonialism

    When Technology for Good is Harmful

    by Mirca Madianou ...
    With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common, AI and big data are being championed as forces for good and as solutions to the complex challenges of the aid sector.This book argues, however, that digital innovation engenders new forms of violence and entrenches power asymmetries between the global South and North. ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Platforms, Power, and Politics

    An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age

    by Ulrike Klinger, Daniel Kreiss, Bruce Mutsvairo ...
    Political communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life. Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments for world leaders, campaigns, social movements, journalists, and non-governmental organizations. Moreover, they are essential to how people communicate about politics, encounter and share political ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Wired and Mobilizing

    Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics

    by Victoria Carty ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualization of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were originally constructed to describe and analyze face-to-face forms of mobilization, in order to more ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Global Media Studies

    by Toby Miller, Marwan M. Kraidy ...
    Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive �how-to� guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world. They look at political economy, global policymaking and governance, and the ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Heads Up Sociology

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Heads UP
    Why does racism exist? Is Big Brother watching us? Why are women paid less than men? Investigate society's hidden truths, from gender and identity politics to consumer culture with this insightful guide.Sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Heads Up Sociology explores a range of curious social phenomena, including poverty and class status, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Digital Diplomacy

    Theory and Practice

    by Corneliu Bjola, Marcus Holmes ...
    Series series Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
    This book analyses digital diplomacy as a form of change management in international politics.The recent spread of digital initiatives in foreign ministries is often argued to be nothing less than a revolution in the practice of diplomacy. In some respects this revolution is long overdue. Digital technology has changed the ways firms conduct business, individuals conduct social relations, and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Lost Future

    And How to Reclaim It

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    A timely and compelling argument for a revitalized and restructured global politicsThe future seems increasingly uncertain. Our democracies are failing to prevent financial crises, energy shortages, climate change, and war—so how can we look to the future with confidence?Jan Zielonka argues that it is democracy’s shortsightedness that makes politics stumble in our increasingly connected world. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD