Overview
Addresses the complex issue of global Internet governance by focusing on its implementation in Malaysia and Singapore
Identifies, revisits, and gives flesh to some of the discourses circulating in Southeast Asia at the time and pitches it against current governance concerns
Helps readers understand how and why Malaysia and Singapore are important contributors to the issue of Internet governance
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Internet governance, thought managed domestically/nationally, is a global issue. It is at the heart of how the internet works yet remains hidden within the 'black box' of governance language. While several scholars have entered the fray in recent years, especially in the past decade, very few of them are aware that the Malaysian and Singaporean governments have in fact been at the forefront of Internet regulatory strategies from the early 1990s. The book identifies, revisits and gives flesh to some of the discourses circulating in Southeast Asia at the time and pitches it against current governance concerns.
Readers of this book will understand how and why Malaysia and Singapore are important contributors to the issue of internet governance. This knowledge will inform a depth of understanding of why China is keenly seeking to stake its demands on internet governance and sovereignty, and likely American and global responses. Readers will also appreciate how and why the regulation of the Internet has been and will remain a site of contestation and control.
Reviews
- Professor Zaharom Nain, Nottingham University, Malaysia
'This book is a useful guide for countries caught in the middle of our contemporary information technology trade war. It outlines the history of two nations – Malaysia and Singapore – that escaped the binary trap of US-China Internet Governance: US-led multistakeholderism vs China-backed multilateralism. It proposes a hybrid model that is glocal, adaptive, and concurrently neoliberal and authoritarian. Susan Leong and Terence Lee review the historical situations and practices of Malaysia and Singapore over three decades by following a third path, a hybrid internet governance model, that seems particularly well-suited for a global post-pandemic future.'
- Associate Professor Weiyu Zhang, National University of Singapore
'Internet governance remains in crisis, without a clear roadmap for the future –– so where do we turn? This brilliant and timely new book by Susan Leong and Terence Lee urges us to look beyond the fixation with US or China, or multistakeholderism or multilateralism as the default options. They propose a ‘hybrid model’ as the way forward, showing how this has unfolded, warts and all, in the dynamic Southeast Asian region in the cases of Singapore and Malaysia. Their rich and persuasive account underscores the importance of understanding actually-existing Internet governance as the foundation to decolonising, debugging, and reforming Internet governance for all. This book is indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the crossroads in communication and technology governance and policy today.'
- Professor Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Terence Lee is an Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. He is the author/editor of several books on media and politics in Singapore, and of Asia generally, including The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore (2010), and Singapore: Negotiating State and Society, 1965-2015 (with Jason Lim, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Internet Governance
Book Subtitle: Influences from Malaysia and Singapore
Authors: Susan Leong, Terence Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9924-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9923-1Published: 24 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9924-8Published: 23 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 105
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Politics, Development Communication, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)