Social media and elections in Singapore: comparing 2011 and 2015

Zhang, Weiyu

doi:10.1080/17544750.2016.1231129

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“…This is understandable in the context of their media systems, which fall under different levels of government control and cooptation. Press laws in Singapore and Malaysia severely curtail the traditional mass media and its ability to question or criticize the ruling status quo (Gomez 2014;Zhang 2016) whereas in Hong Kong much of the press since the 1997 handover has been bought or coopted by entities that are pro-China or have economic interests in China (Lee et al 2017). In such environments, the relatively less-regulated social media channel may be a preferred or alternative source for users to engage with news.…”

Section: Uneven Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the Roles of Political Social Network and Internal Efficacy on Social Media News Engagement: A Comparative Study of Six Asian Countries

Chan

Chen

Lee

2018

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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The use of social media has risen exponentially in Asia in the past decade, but there have been few comparative studies examining social media news engagement in the region. We use online survey data to examine the relationships among political social networks, internal political efficacy, and social media news engagement in six countries (Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore). Findings across the samples showed that individuals in political social networks comprising cross-cutting and like-minded political views engage in social media news more, and internal political efficacy accentuated the relationships between cross-cutting/like-minded political social networks and engagement. Implications for the findings are discussed in relation to current debates on the potential for social media news engagement to engender a more deliberative democracy; or lead to greater ideological segregation and echo chambers in social media spaces.

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Section: Uneven Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the Roles of Political Social Network and Internal Efficacy on Social Media News Engagement: A Comparative Study of Six Asian Countries

Chan

Chen

Lee

2018

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…For the most part, this is due to the structure and dynamics of Singaporean society, and its political arrangements, public policy traditions and strong systems of social control and clear support for or alternatively discouragement and sanctioning of different kinds of expression and voicessomething well established in the scholarly literature (Chua, 2017;George, 2000George, , 2017Lee, 2010Lee, , 2014, especially via various studies published in Media International Australia (most recently, Lee and Lee, 2019). In recent years, the Singapore government, following the dampened level of votes received by governing People's Action Party (PAP), that has ruled since the 1967, in the 2011 Election, and a more sceptical populace (Barr, 2016;Zhang, 2016), it has sought to extend consultation and formal 'listening' mechanisms to provide additional opportunities for citizens' voices. Furthermore, while there has been increased discussion of privacy with the rise of digital technologies and unprecedented expansion of data generation, collection and use, the legal and regulatory framework is relatively weak in relation to privacy rights taken-for-granted in many jurisdictions (Chesterman, 2012(Chesterman, , 2018, even in the wake of the European General Data Protection Directive (GDPR).…”

Section: Singapore's Tracetogether: 'A Fair Degree Of Privacy'mentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 apps in Singapore and Australia: reimagining healthy nations with digital technology

Goggin

2020

Media International Australia

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Widely and intensively used digital technologies have been an important feature of international responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. One especially interesting class of such technologies are dedicated contact and tracing apps collecting proximity data via the Bluetooth technology. In this article, I consider the development, deployment and imagined uses of apps in two countries: Singapore, a pioneer in the field, with its TraceTogether app, and Australia, a country that adapted Singapore’s app, devising its own COVIDSafe, as key to its national public health strategy early in the crisis. What is especially interesting about these cases is the privacy concerns the apps raised, and how these are dealt with in each country, also the ways in which each nation reimagines its immediate social future and health approach via such an app.

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“…Third, gazing from and at Singapore's internets is to acknowledge how interest-and action-based social networks such as LGBTQ activists (Phillips 2014; Soon and Kluver 2014) and increasingly technologically configured collectives such as supporters of political parties (Zhang 2016) are assembled through diverse (and often nationally endorsed and funded) Internet technologies, from mobile phones to server farms, from wireless networks to optical cables. Thus, despite the "grip" of national initiatives (or perhaps because of them), Singapore's internets can be best understood through both official, national culture and unofficial, discrete subcultures of use that have evolved over time mediated by certain Internet services and comprising particular groups (e.g., youth).…”

Section: Gazing On and Comparing Singapore's Internetsmentioning

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The Internet in Asia through Singapore

Graham

Kerr

Pang

et al. 2018

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Jo

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The Internet or, as these authors argue, internets (plural) in Asia are composed of cables and exchanges, protocols and firewalls, regulations and other legal devices, making them subject to investment and governance strategies, as well as treaties and court cases. But they are also composed of figures, layers, stories, and rumors. These latter descriptors provide a heuristic framework of social features that, together with metaphors from folklore, provide analytic tools for understanding the diversity, conflicts, competitions, and disengagements of the patchwork of internet development across Asia. The authors further argue that Singapore provides an exceptionally valuable comparative site from which to explore these features. The first part of this article lays out some of the comparative features, and the second part turns to the four themes or heuristics of figures, layers, stories, and rumors, developed through an STS research cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Tembusu College, both at the National University of Singapore. Keywords Internet ▪ Singapore ▪ folklore Acknowledgments We thank the reviewers for their generous and insightful comments on this article.

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Social media and elections in Singapore: comparing 2011 and 2015

Cited by 23 publications

References 19 publications

Examining the Roles of Political Social Network and Internal Efficacy on Social Media News Engagement: A Comparative Study of Six Asian Countries

Examining the Roles of Political Social Network and Internal Efficacy on Social Media News Engagement: A Comparative Study of Six Asian Countries

COVID-19 apps in Singapore and Australia: reimagining healthy nations with digital technology

The Internet in Asia through Singapore

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