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Access Contested : Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace

By DEIBERT (Editor), JOHN (Editor), RAFAL ROHOZINSKI (Editor), JONATHAN L. ZITTRAIN (Editor)

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ISBN : 9780262516808
Page : 432
Year of Publication : 2011    Edition : 1
Publisher : MIT PRESS
Subject : COMPUTER SCIENCE - IT

mediamatics

Description :

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 (a collaborative partnership of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and the SecDev Group in Ottawa), 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.

Rafal Rohozinski is the former Director of the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge University (Cambridge Security Programme). He is a principal with The SecDev Group, a global strategy and research analytics firmJonathan L. Zittrain is George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is also Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Cofounder and Director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Content :

Acknowledgments

Author Biographies

Foreword

Part I: Access Contested: Theory and Analysis

1 Access Contested:Toward the Fourth Phase of Cyberspace Controls

2 Contesting Cyberspace and the Coming Crisis of Authority

3 The Struggle for Digital Freedom of Speech: The Malaysian Sociopolitical Blogosphere's Experience

4 Sexing the internet: Censorship, Surveillance, and the Body Politic(s)of Malaysia

5 Internet Politics in Thailand after the 2006 Coup: Regulation by code and a Contested Ideological Terrain

6 Competing Value Regarding Internet Use in "Free" Philippine Social institutions

7 Interconnected Contests: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks and Other Digital Control Measure in Asia

8 Control and Resistance: Attacks on Burmese Opposition Media