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New Media in the Margins

Lived Realities and Experiences from the Malaysian Peripheries

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Editors:
  1. Benjamin YH Loh

    1. School of Media and Communication, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia

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  2. James Chin

    1. School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia

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  • Expands the discourse of online communities in Malaysia beyond the typical Sino-Malayo centric lenses
  • Elaborates on the duality of social media in both empowering and oppressing those in the margins
  • Presents in-depth case studies of communities that has never been written about in terms of the new media

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Benjamin YH Loh, James Chin
    Pages 1-14

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 193-194
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About this book

This book consists of nine chapters, each an in-depth case study into a specific non-mainstream or marginalized online community in Malaysia. The authors come from diverse backgrounds to talk about how new media can both assist and hinder maligned minorities, ignored ethnicities or the often attacked migrants in their day to day lives. The book makes a strong contribution to Malaysian studies which highlights the other and represents minority viewpoints to challenge the belief that Malaysia’s online space is monolithic and limited to several mainstream discourses in Malaysian scholarship.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Media and Communication, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia

    Benjamin YH Loh

  • School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia

    James Chin

About the editors

Benjamin YH Loh is a media scholar who employs digital ethnography to study emergent cultures and the digital public sphere. Having received his PhD in Communications and New Media from the National University of Singapore, he focuses much of his work on the confluence between technology and society, with a particular focus on minority and marginalised communities. He is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Media and Communication, Taylor’s University. He recently co-edited a book on the Sabah state elections entitled Sabah from the Ground: The 2020 elections and the politics of survival. 


James Chin is a professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania. He was the inaugural director of the Asia Institute Tasmania and the founding head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences of the Malaysian campus of Monash University. He is also a senior fellow at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, and wasa senior visiting fellow at Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (now the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute). He is widely regarded as the leading scholar of contemporary Malaysian politics, especially on Sabah and Sarawak. Prior to an academic career, he worked as a journalist in Malaysia and Singapore.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Media in the Margins

  • Book Subtitle: Lived Realities and Experiences from the Malaysian Peripheries

  • Editors: Benjamin YH Loh, James Chin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7141-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7140-2Published: 15 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7143-3Published: 16 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-7141-9Published: 13 February 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 194

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Political Communication, Digital/New Media, Political Science

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