Internet Popular Culture and (Everyday) Politics: Methodological & Ethical Critiques from Southeast Asia
This edited collection considers how scholars conduct research on (everyday) politics in Southeast Asia via networks of internet popular culture. This includes artifacts, networks, groups, and cultures that are specific to Southeast Asian online practices, and that seek to represent, advocate for, provoke, or question how citizens ‘do’ politics online.

In the Southeast Asia region in particular, these behind-the-scenes minutiae of everyday decisions are all the more under-valued when researchers have been taught, conditioned, or cautioned to tiptoe around the OB (out-of-bound) markers implicitly policed by states and governments. This book examines the combination of media regimes with limited press freedoms, the employment of sedition acts against citizens, and the need to be strategic to secure state and industry funding for research has also pressured or motivated scholars to strategically obscure certain research anecdotes in favour of a smoother publishing journey and/or posterity. As such, this collection serves as a sounding board and collection of reflections on what is really looks like to conduct research on everyday politics online in the Southeast Asian region, while navigating innovative media methods, negotiating inter-disciplinary gatekeeping, demands of publishing in tiered journals and the tensions around legitimizing one's methodological choices. Featuring four methodological accounts of scholars contemplating the methodological and ethical conundrums when conducting research on Southeast Asian internet popular culture and everyday politics.

This book will appeal to readers in the disciplines of anthropology, Asian studies, communications, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies.

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Internet Popular Culture and (Everyday) Politics: Methodological & Ethical Critiques from Southeast Asia
This edited collection considers how scholars conduct research on (everyday) politics in Southeast Asia via networks of internet popular culture. This includes artifacts, networks, groups, and cultures that are specific to Southeast Asian online practices, and that seek to represent, advocate for, provoke, or question how citizens ‘do’ politics online.

In the Southeast Asia region in particular, these behind-the-scenes minutiae of everyday decisions are all the more under-valued when researchers have been taught, conditioned, or cautioned to tiptoe around the OB (out-of-bound) markers implicitly policed by states and governments. This book examines the combination of media regimes with limited press freedoms, the employment of sedition acts against citizens, and the need to be strategic to secure state and industry funding for research has also pressured or motivated scholars to strategically obscure certain research anecdotes in favour of a smoother publishing journey and/or posterity. As such, this collection serves as a sounding board and collection of reflections on what is really looks like to conduct research on everyday politics online in the Southeast Asian region, while navigating innovative media methods, negotiating inter-disciplinary gatekeeping, demands of publishing in tiered journals and the tensions around legitimizing one's methodological choices. Featuring four methodological accounts of scholars contemplating the methodological and ethical conundrums when conducting research on Southeast Asian internet popular culture and everyday politics.

This book will appeal to readers in the disciplines of anthropology, Asian studies, communications, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies.

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This edited collection considers how scholars conduct research on (everyday) politics in Southeast Asia via networks of internet popular culture. This includes artifacts, networks, groups, and cultures that are specific to Southeast Asian online practices, and that seek to represent, advocate for, provoke, or question how citizens ‘do’ politics online.

In the Southeast Asia region in particular, these behind-the-scenes minutiae of everyday decisions are all the more under-valued when researchers have been taught, conditioned, or cautioned to tiptoe around the OB (out-of-bound) markers implicitly policed by states and governments. This book examines the combination of media regimes with limited press freedoms, the employment of sedition acts against citizens, and the need to be strategic to secure state and industry funding for research has also pressured or motivated scholars to strategically obscure certain research anecdotes in favour of a smoother publishing journey and/or posterity. As such, this collection serves as a sounding board and collection of reflections on what is really looks like to conduct research on everyday politics online in the Southeast Asian region, while navigating innovative media methods, negotiating inter-disciplinary gatekeeping, demands of publishing in tiered journals and the tensions around legitimizing one's methodological choices. Featuring four methodological accounts of scholars contemplating the methodological and ethical conundrums when conducting research on Southeast Asian internet popular culture and everyday politics.

This book will appeal to readers in the disciplines of anthropology, Asian studies, communications, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781041024651
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/08/2025
Pages: 84
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Crystal Abidin (PhD) is Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University. She is Director of the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab and Founder of the TikTok Cultures Research Network. Crystal is a digital anthropologist focusing on social media pop cultures especially in the Asia Pacific region. Reach her at wishcrys.com.

Natalie Pang (PhD) is Head and Associate Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore. Her research lies at the intersection of technology and society, and her research projects are organised under the themes of digital citizenship, inclusion and well-being.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION – Internet Popular Culture and (Everyday) Politics: Methodological & Ethical Critiques from Southeast Asia 1. Exploring methodological issues in studying contentious communication on Malaysian social media 2. Social Media-Circulated Underground Music and Politics: The Case of The Lamidet Society Muria Endah Sokowati and Fajar Junaedi 3. Pseudonymous Influencers and Horny 'Alts' in the Philippines: Media Manipulation Be Media Manipulation Beyond "Fake News' e News'" 4. Studying Private Messaging Groups: Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groupchats, and Research Regimes in Singapore(ans) CONCLUSION – Internet Research and the Way Forward

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