Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Asia encounters the Internet; 2 The state of Internet use in Asia; 3 Catching up and falling behind; 4 Cyberspace surveillance and social control the hidden face of the Internet in Asia; 5 Global technology meets local environment state attempts to control Internet content; 6 Piracy open source and international intellectual property law; 7 From real to virtual and back again civil society public sphere and the Internet in Indonesia; 8 Malaysiakini com and its impact on journalism and politics in Malaysia
Summary
The Internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia