’Citizen Journalism’: Bridging the Discrepancy in Singapore’s General Elections News
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This paper was published in the German Institute of Global and Area Studies' journal Südostasien aktuell, otherwise known as the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs. -- James Gomez

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Democracy and the internet in Singapore: The supply of alternative political content during general elections
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Although the issue of political expression by ordinary internet users in Singapore has received the attention of some scholars, very little has been specifically written on the impact of their use during general elections in the city-state Since the arrival of the internet in Singapore in 1995, the People’s Action Party (PAP) government has actively sought to control the supply of political content by internet users during election time. This paper looks at how online political expression and the regulations to control it have shaped up during the last three general elections in 1997, 2001 and 2006. In absolute electoral terms there seems to have been no impact over the last three general elections. However, as a supplementary medium for alternative information during elections, the internet has made some headway. It remains to be seen if this headway will have an impact on the absolute electoral results in future elections or become the target or more control. -- James Gomez

All of us at a cafe in Stockholm.......

S'porean Students @ Stockholm

James caught up with Joanne and Shu Wen from Singapore who are studying at Stockholm University on 2nd December 2006 . They are on a one year exchange programme from the Law Faculty at the National University of Singapore. -- Ronald Rodenhuis

Amnesty International refers to JGN

In Amnesty International (AI) update on Singapore 21 Nov 06 , the human rights organisation refered to the JGN site under point 14 in the section "FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Further restrictions but increasing domestic and international criticism". See some of the articles that AI refered to at the JGN site. --

Nepal 2006: Political Parties

I meet with members of different political parties in a trip in November 2006 following the signing of the peace accord between the Seven Party Alliance and the Maoists. I spent over 8 days on this first trip to Khatmandu. --

Video Cast: James Gomez Speaks

"Defamation in Singapore. Who needs filtering?" Organisers of the conference Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace recorded and posted his presentation at the following link. Go to http://www.asia247.tv/asia0900/ to access the presentation. --

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