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VI: National and Area Studies/Études Nationales et Régionales

This article explores the socio-political impact of the internet and new social media in East Asia. In particular, it explores whether the new tools and platforms associated with the latter are having a democratizing effect on the region's authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes by opening up a permissive online public sphere in which traditional hierarchies of power are challenged. [R] [See Abstr. 62.5736]