62
Vee Vian Thien
32. “ Rais Decries Dodgy Enforcement of Blogging Laws, ” Malaysiakini, May 13, 2009, http://
malaysiakini.com/news/104230 . (Rais Yatim, the Malaysian information minister, declared that
existing laws were adequate to prosecute and regulate bloggers, but was critical of the enforcement of these laws.)
33. Niluksi Koswanage, “ Malaysia to Cancel Internet Filter Study — Source, ” Reuters, August
12, 2009, http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/08/12/malaysia-internet-idINKLR52289420090812
?pageNumber=1.
34. Cecilia Victor, “ Rais Yatim Lodges Report over Allegations against Son, ” Malay Mail , October
12, 2010, http://www.mmail.com.my/content/52046-rais-yatim-lodges-report-over-allegations
-against-son .
35. Tony Yew, “ Bloggers for Malaysia, ” Bloggers for Malaysia, October 21, 2010, http://
bloggersformalaysia.blogspot.com/ .
36. Note that this “ loophole ” may soon be closed, as legislative amendments are being proposed
to extend licensing requirements to online news portals and blogs. See the Malaysia country
profi le in this volume for further details.
37. Malaysian Police Act 1976, sec. 27.
38. Xiang Zhou, “ The Political Blogosphere in China, ” New Media and Society 11 (2009): 1017
( referring to M. Jiang, “ Authoritarian Deliberation: Public Deliberation in China, ” paper presented at sixth annual Chinese Internet Research Conference, Hong Kong, June 13 – 14, 2008).
39. Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim, Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: A New Civil Society
in the Making (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: SIRD, 2008).
40. Ibid., 44.
41. Brian Ulicny, “ Modeling Malaysian Public Opinion by Mining the Malaysian Blogosphere ”
(First International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction,
Phoenix, AZ, April 2008), http://vistology.com/papers/VIS-SBP08%20.pdf .
42. Brian Ulicny, Christopher J. Matheus, and Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, “ Metrics for Monitoring a
Social-Political Blogosphere, ” IEEE Computer Society 34 (2010): 34 – 44, 36 (table 1).
43. Ibid.
44. Hang Wu Tang, “ The Networked Electorate: The Internet and the Quiet Democratic Revolution in Malaysia and Singapore, ” Journal of Information Law and Technology 2 (2009): 3.
45. Cherian George, “ The Internet ’ s Political Impact and the Penetration/Participation Paradox
in Malaysia and Singapore, ” Media, Culture and Society 27, no. 6 (2005): 903, DOI: 10.1177 (general
observation); Tang, “ The Networked Electorate, ” 10 – 11 (elections-specifi c). For an interesting
fl ipside analysis of the online replication of offl ine relationships and networks, see Heike Jensen,
Jac sm Kee, Gayathri Venkiteswaran, and Sonia Randhawa, “ Sexing the Internet: Censorship,
Surveillance, and the Body Politic(s) of Malaysia, ” chapter 4 in this volume.
Vee Vian Thien
32. “ Rais Decries Dodgy Enforcement of Blogging Laws, ” Malaysiakini, May 13, 2009, http://
malaysiakini.com/news/104230 . (Rais Yatim, the Malaysian information minister, declared that
existing laws were adequate to prosecute and regulate bloggers, but was critical of the enforcement of these laws.)
33. Niluksi Koswanage, “ Malaysia to Cancel Internet Filter Study — Source, ” Reuters, August
12, 2009, http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/08/12/malaysia-internet-idINKLR52289420090812
?pageNumber=1.
34. Cecilia Victor, “ Rais Yatim Lodges Report over Allegations against Son, ” Malay Mail , October
12, 2010, http://www.mmail.com.my/content/52046-rais-yatim-lodges-report-over-allegations
-against-son .
35. Tony Yew, “ Bloggers for Malaysia, ” Bloggers for Malaysia, October 21, 2010, http://
bloggersformalaysia.blogspot.com/ .
36. Note that this “ loophole ” may soon be closed, as legislative amendments are being proposed
to extend licensing requirements to online news portals and blogs. See the Malaysia country
profi le in this volume for further details.
37. Malaysian Police Act 1976, sec. 27.
38. Xiang Zhou, “ The Political Blogosphere in China, ” New Media and Society 11 (2009): 1017
( referring to M. Jiang, “ Authoritarian Deliberation: Public Deliberation in China, ” paper presented at sixth annual Chinese Internet Research Conference, Hong Kong, June 13 – 14, 2008).
39. Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim, Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: A New Civil Society
in the Making (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: SIRD, 2008).
40. Ibid., 44.
41. Brian Ulicny, “ Modeling Malaysian Public Opinion by Mining the Malaysian Blogosphere ”
(First International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction,
Phoenix, AZ, April 2008), http://vistology.com/papers/VIS-SBP08%20.pdf .
42. Brian Ulicny, Christopher J. Matheus, and Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, “ Metrics for Monitoring a
Social-Political Blogosphere, ” IEEE Computer Society 34 (2010): 34 – 44, 36 (table 1).
43. Ibid.
44. Hang Wu Tang, “ The Networked Electorate: The Internet and the Quiet Democratic Revolution in Malaysia and Singapore, ” Journal of Information Law and Technology 2 (2009): 3.
45. Cherian George, “ The Internet ’ s Political Impact and the Penetration/Participation Paradox
in Malaysia and Singapore, ” Media, Culture and Society 27, no. 6 (2005): 903, DOI: 10.1177 (general
observation); Tang, “ The Networked Electorate, ” 10 – 11 (elections-specifi c). For an interesting
fl ipside analysis of the online replication of offl ine relationships and networks, see Heike Jensen,
Jac sm Kee, Gayathri Venkiteswaran, and Sonia Randhawa, “ Sexing the Internet: Censorship,
Surveillance, and the Body Politic(s) of Malaysia, ” chapter 4 in this volume.