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Subtitle: security, identity, and resistance in Asian cyberspace information revolution and global politics
By: edited by Ronald Deibert ... [et al.].
Series: Information revolution and global politics
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780262016780; 9780262516808
Subjects: Cyberspace; Government policy; Computer security; Censorship; Access control; Internet; Computers
Description: This book examines the interplay of national security, social and ethnic identity, and resistance in Asian cyberspace, offering in-depth accounts of national struggles against Internet controls as well as updated country reports by ONI researchers. THe contributors examine such topics as Internet censorship in Thailand, the Malaysian blogosphere, surveillance and censorship around gender and sexuality in Malaysia, Internet governance in China, corporate social responsibility and freedom of expression in South Korea and India, cyber attacks on Independent Burmese media, and distributed-denial-of-services attacks and other digital control measures across Asia. -- FROM BACK COVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.