The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780415470261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 222 str.

T. Hill David

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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.