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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 707–738.
Published: 01 August 2020
...” in such a context. With the emergence of social networking sites like Facebook, new digital public spaces have appeared. Focusing on ruling-party student activists at Rajshahi University, this article examines how student politicians in Bangladesh utilize Facebook to become visible in their everyday politicking...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 935–943.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., queen, heir-apparent, or regent. Two days prior, he had shared to Facebook a biography of the new king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, or Rama X, who became king following the death of his father, Bhumipol Adulyadej, Rama IX, on October 13, 2016. The BBC Thai biography was candid and highlighted Vajiralongkorn's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 975–987.
Published: 01 November 2014
... documentary on climate change. Facebook, Twitter, and chats excitedly shared news of the upcoming global release of a film seeking to unite the globe in a social movement to stop climate change. Software engineers and social justice activists might, it seemed, be able to come together on this topic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 895–908.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and punishing online citizens. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 censorship cybersecurity digital governance Facebook late-socialist politics media social media Vietnam June 2018 was an intense time in Vietnam when one saw the role of social media in revealing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 909–922.
Published: 01 November 2018
... ( Daily Star 2013 ), as well as on numerous blogs and Facebook pages run by Jamaat activists, were able to use a few comments critical of religion by some bloggers to paint the entire movement as an atheistic one. 1 Free speech, especially where religious sensitivity is concerned, suffered a deep...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 5–21.
Published: 01 February 2015
...&cid=1601 (accessed November 14, 2014). 8 This name has been changed. 7 Throughout the occupation, volleys of text and Facebook messages were sent in attempts to link Black Island's most visible spokespeople, Chen Wei-ting and Lin Fei-fan, to the DPP's past presidential candidate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 853–877.
Published: 01 November 2014
... at the stadium and at home agreed that Myanmar had not only surpassed expectations, but also bettered previous SEA Games opening ceremonies. On the SEA Games Facebook page, fans from other countries happily concurred. A few days later, the MOC's undemonstrative U Khin Maung Lwin smiled while boasting gently...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 820–821.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and methods, including poetry, artworks, public statements, individual comments written on paper sheets, social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and hashtags. Tausig's work may prove useful in the field of sound studies, but we will certainly need more approaches to explore the political expressions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 778–780.
Published: 01 August 2012
... affected by these controls. As Liu notes, part of this is the insular nature of China's Internet. Who needs Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube when you have access to sites such as Sina Weibo, Renren, or Youku, sites with Chinese-language interfaces that were designed specifically for the Chinese market...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2015
... Facebook page by a friend of his. It shows a quintessentially Hong Kong protest scene, while inside the issue there is a collage of shots taken by the author last March that give a visual sense of the Taipei events that made headlines earlier in 2014. The second contribution to the issue is a “Trends...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 889–902.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., 2015 ). Jakarta Post . 2010 . “Indonesia Fourth Biggest Facebook Users in the World.” January 6. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/01/06/indonesia-fourth-biggest-facebook-users-world.html (accessed July 31, 2015 ). Lipset Seymour Martin . 1959 . “ Some Social Requisites...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 549–576.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., ‘The Dharahara has fallen.’ I asked her if she had ever visited Kathmandu. No, she said, she'd seen it on Facebook. Nowadays Facebook shows everything. She was Kalpana BK, aged 27. Her husband was working in Malaysia. They talked on a mobile when she went to a shop in Chaurajahari that had the internet running...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 299–316.
Published: 01 May 2016
... as criticism of the royal institution have been expanded widely to include criticizing the law itself, liking pictures on Facebook, and even mocking the king's dog. Hundreds of people have left the country for fear of arrests and other forms of repression, among them local political organizers, popular...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 839–849.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Police also arrested and charged the dean of admissions. The university president resigned. The Seoul Education Bureau canceled Chŏng's high school diploma. 6 Chŏng represented illicit advancement through privilege. She even flaunted her privilege. On Facebook she had written: “Blame your own...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 502–506.
Published: 01 May 2021
... on Facebook for mass viewing. In a fascinating contrast with Moodie's focus on the salaried Anglophone middle classes as a source of modernist change in Kalighat, Srinivas centers the Brahmin priests as the sources of change in Malleshwaram. If, in Moodie's focus in Kalighat, religion is reformed through...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 73–93.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., thereby actively shaping the music culture in general (Morris 2015 , 2018 ). Whereas mega-platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, and Google have been the central topics of platform studies, there has been little research to date on the production of graphic narratives, web novels, illustrations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 657–671.
Published: 01 November 2022
... modes of interactions evolve among members of WeChat groups versus Facebook groups organized around a classicist cultural expression, considering that different standards of digital censorship may apply? All these are topics of digital anthropology that merit careful case studies. In short...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 43–61.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., the authorities once again reverted to socioeconomic claims. Ahead of her trip to Beijing to attend the NPC, Carrie Lam wrote on her Facebook page in March 2021 that “the prosperity and stability of the Hong Kong SAR are inseparable from national affairs.” 16 After the NPC confirmed Beijing's determination...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1069–1091.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in Shaoguan, for example, claiming that Uyghur girls were among factory workers killed by Han during the Shaoguan fight (China Central Television 2009 ; Facebook n.d.; Millward 2009 , 350) or that harassment of Uyghur women factory workers fueled discord between Uyghurs and Han (Radio Free Asia 2009 ). U.K...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 523–540.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., for example, most people posted heroic stories of rescues, but a Facebook page called “New Sinhala Buddhist” had a photo of young Muslim women, more maidens in distress, stepping from a raft with the help of two uniformed men. The caption read, “The manner in which Sinhala Buddhists aid/bless ( pihiṭa venna...
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