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.
Highlights
The rapid rise of social media over the past decade has spurred numerous scholarly studies on its impact on social and political life, but the majority of papers have been limited to cultural contexts of the United States and Europe
Empirical studies assessing the impact of social media on social and political changes in Asia remain relatively scarce
In Asia, social media ecologies come in many different forms and operate in rather different socio-political contexts, including different languages, political systems, dominant cultures, etc
Summary
The rapid rise of social media over the past decade has spurred numerous scholarly studies on its impact on social and political life, but the majority of papers have been limited to cultural contexts of the United States and Europe. The political systems of Asia come in different forms, with Singapore and Hong Kong being “partly free”, China being i. Even for Singapore and Hong Kong, the reasons for classified as “partly free” differ significantly These examples point to diversity in the features of social media platforms in Asia, as well as the social and political contexts in which they are used. With the diversity of social media platforms and cultural, social, or political systems in Asia, there is an urgent need for more nuanced and contextualized approaches to examining social media’s role in social and political change This special issue aims to address this gap with four papers from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and a comparative piece examining China and Australia. Communication in online contexts, intercultural aspects like language and a cross-cultural perspective are aspects of the papers of this second section, which attach very well to the scope of the special issue
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