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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524656503321

Titolo

Access contested : security, identity, and resistance in Asian cyberspace / / edited by Ronald Deibert [and 3 others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, ©2012

ISBN

0-262-29804-X

0-262-29891-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 414 p.) : ill

Collana

Information revolution and global politics

Disciplina

303.48/33095

Soggetti

Cyberspace - Government policy - Asia

Computer security - Asia

Computers - Access control - Asia

Internet - Government policy - Asia

Internet - Censorship - Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Access contested: Theory and analysis. Access contested: toward the fourth phase of cyberspace controls / Ronald Deibert ... [et al.] ; Contesting cyberspace and the coming crisis of authority / Ronald Deibert, Rafal Rohozinski ; The struggle for digital freedom of speech: the Malaysian sociopolitical biogosphere's experience / Vee Vian Thien ; Sexing the Internet: censorship, surveillance, and the body politic(s) of Malaysia / Heike Jensen ... [et al.] ; Internet politics in Thailand after the 2006 coup: regulation by code and a contested ideological terrain / Pirongrong Ramasoota ; Competing values regarding Internet use in "free" Philippine social institutions / Erwin A. Alampay, Joselito C. Olpoc, Regina M. Hechanova ; Interconnected contests: distributed denial of service attacks and other digital control measures in Asia / Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, John Palfrey ; Control and resistance: attacks on Burmese opposition media / Nart Villeneuve, Masashi Crete-Nishihata ; China and Global Internet governance: a tiger by the tail / Milton L. Mueller ; Corporate accountability in networked Asia / Rebecca MacKinnonn -- Part II Country profiles and regional overview. Introduction to the country profiles. Asia overview ; Bangladesh ; Burma



; China ; India ; Indonesia ; Malaysia ; Pakistan ; South Korea ; Thailand ; Vietnam.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume 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.