A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia. At the epicenter of this contest is China–home to the world’s largest Internet population and what is perhaps the world’s most advanced Internet censorship and surveillance regime in cyberspace.
Resistance to China’s Internet controls comes from both grassroots activists and corporate giants such as Google. Meanwhile, similar struggles play out across the rest of the region, from India and Singapore to Thailand and Burma, although each national dynamic is unique. Access Contested, the third volume from the OpenNet Initiative, 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-service attacks and other digital control measures across Asia.
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List of Chapters
Chapter 1
Access Contested: Toward the Fourth Phase of Cyberspace Controls
Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain
Chapter 2
Contesting Cyberspace and the Coming Crisis of Authority
Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski
Chapter 3
The Struggle for Digital Freedom of Speech: The Malaysian Sociopolitical Blogosphere’s Experience
Vee Vian Thien
Chapter 4
Sexing the Internet: Censorship, Surveillance, and the Body Politic(s)
of Malaysia
Heike Jensen, Jac sm Kee, Gayathry Venkiteswaran, and Sonia Randhawa
Chapter 5
Internet Politics in Thailand after the 2006 Coup: Regulation by Code and a
Contested Ideological Terrain
Pirongrong Ramasoota
Chapter 6
Competing Values Regarding Internet Use in ì Free î Philippine Social
Institutions
Erwin A. Alampay, Joselito C. Olpoc, and Regina M. Hechanova
Chapter 7
Interconnected Contests: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks and Other
Digital Control Measures in Asia
Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, and John Palfrey
Chapter 8
Control and Resistance: Attacks on Burmese Opposition Media
Nart Villeneuve and Masashi Crete-Nishihata
Chapter 9
China and Global Internet Governance: A Tiger by the Tail
Milton L. Mueller
Chapter 10
Corporate Accountability in Networked Asia
Rebecca MacKinnon
