New Media in the Margins : Lived Realities and Experiences from the Malaysian Peripheries / / edited by Benjamin Yh Loh, James Chin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910659481903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 981-19-7141-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.4833
• Soggetti: Digital media - Social aspects; Digital media - Social aspects - Malaysia; Marginality, Social - Malaysia; Minorities - Malaysia - Social conditions; Minorities - Social conditions; Social history; Malaysia Social conditions 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Indigenous rights and representation -- 2. Native Customary Rights land titles and thwarting deforestation: Digital acts of resistance among Sarawak’s indigenous peoples -- 3. ‘Some Orang Asli still think Najib is PM’: Representations and self-representations of the Orang Asli in the Cameron Highlands byelection -- Part 2: Migrant and refugee discourses -- 4. Romance through digital avatars: Online courtship, representation and ‘catfishing’ amongst irregular female migrants in Sabah -- 5. Grateful politics: Rohingya and social media in the time of the pandemic -- Part 3: The “Othered” minorities -- 6. Confronting Malaysian Indian stereotypes and state neglect: The ‘SuguPavithra’ episode within mainstream national discourse -- 7. ‘Our online-ness matters’: The construction of social media presences by Malaysian LGBTQ Communities -- 8. A ‘blue ocean’ for marginalised radical voices: Cyberspace, social media and extremist discourse in Malaysia.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book consists of nine chapters, each an in-depth case study into a ; specific non-mainstream or marginalized online community in Malaysia. The authors come from diverse backgrounds to talk about how new media can both assist and hinder maligned minorities, ignored ethnicities or the often attacked migrants in their day to day lives. The book makes a strong contribution to Malaysian studies which highlights the other and represents minority viewpoints to challenge the belief that Malaysia’s online space is monolithic and limited to several mainstream discourses in Malaysian scholarship.