This document discusses the rise of networked politics in Asia, where politics intersect with popular culture through various online platforms. It provides examples from Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea where student movements and mobilization utilized new media. Statistics are presented on internet and blog usage across Asia, showing high percentages of young people and women engaged in blogging. The conclusion is that networked politics through online tools like blogging, YouTube, Flickr, and Twitter is now firmly established and will continue shaping political participation, structures, and dynamics between states and civil societies.

1. Networked
Politics
is Here to Stay............
M e r l y n a L i m
C o n s o rt i u m f o r S c i e n c e ,
P o l i c y & O u t c o m e s
A r i z o n a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y
T e m p e , U S A

2. Indonesian 1998 Reformasi
May 1998: student movement vs. Suharto

3. The Philippines People Power II
SMS-based mobilization
Jan 2001: People Power II (2001 EDSA Revolution) -- vs Estrada

4. The Philippines People Power III
Ring-tone politics
May 2005: People Power III (no-revolution) -- vs Gloria Arroyo

5. South Korean Netizens

6. OBAMA-YOUTUBE POLITICS
10,147,488 views
Discovered Feb 2, 2008 7 duplicate videos
by February 19: 4,061 blog posts
59,383 comments

7. e-Deliberation ............. e-Mobilization
networked practices of agitations

8. Networked Politics
WHERE POLITICS MEET POPULAR CULTURE.....
BLOGGING
videoblogging
photoblogging
miniblogging
YOU-TUBE-ING
social-networking
FLICKR-ing
TWITTER-ing
PLURK-ing...
SECOND-LIFE...

10. china
137 million internet users (second only
under 30 and almost 60% are men
other parts of asia
52% of internet users in japan and 31%
in south korea read blogs, while 18% in
write blogs (all larger percentages than
the u.s.)

11. Some more stats
(from Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report)
Nearly half of those online in Asia have a blog, 74%
find blogs by friends/family to be most interesting
Young people and women dominate (except India
where it is overwhelmingly a male domain)
50% believe blog content to be as trustworthy as
traditional media
41% spend more than three hours a week blogging
55% of bloggers in Asia were found to be female and
45% male.
20% of Malaysians voted for blogs focusing on
politics, compared to 14% on average across Asia

14. RSF report 2005:
16 of the 53 journalists killed in 2004 in Asia
46 of 104 world’s imprisoned journalists
were in Asia
RSF report 2007:
26 bloggers and online journalists have
been convicted and jailed since September
2006

15. it’s very clear...
networked politics is
here to stay
not for a year,
forever and a day
the blogging and the
youtube
and flickring and
twittering
may just be passing
Text
fancies and in time
may go
but, oh my dear,
networked politics is
here to stay....
political participation
political structure
state-civil society dynamics
democratic spheres