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1. 'Harmless' and 'Hump-less' Political Podcasts: Censorship and internet resistance in Singapore 2011

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   Tan, Shzr Ee

   Music, Sound And The Moving Image, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 39 - 70.

   Censorship of the media has long been seen as a major feature in the governance of the Singapore city state, which ranked 133rd out of 175 in the World Press Freedom Index in 2009. (1) However, thi... Read more

   Censorship of the media has long been seen as a major feature in the governance of the Singapore city state, which ranked 133rd out of 175 in the World Press Freedom Index in 2009. (1) However, this grip on freedom of speech has been obliquely and intermittently challenged in the republic's recent history, particularly with the emergence of alternative spaces on the Internet for the expression of social and political resistance against state-engineered discourses. One notable case over the past decade involves the releasing of a series of 'netizen' podcasts and music videos culminating in what has come to be known as the 'Mee Siam My Humps' saga. This chain of events ruptured at the height of the republic's general elections in 2006, and saw the country's prime minister Lee Hsien-Loong represented by Internet pranksters in a series of web mashups juxtaposing seemingly disconnected audio and visual references to local spicy food and R&B group Black Eyed Peas' hit, 'My Humps'. The podcasts and videos sent out mixed messages: was Lee so 'trendy' a personality to have earned this association to pop culture, or was the video a prankster's reaction to government censorship executed by way of localised satire? Segments of Lee's National Day Rally speech--held at the height of election fervour and articulating the government's tough stance on discussion of politics over the Internet--were themselves sampled in the web mashups. The resulting low-resolution and deliberately amateur assemblages of music, text and image were made to be performatively ambiguous, doubly functioning as tribute videos to Lee as well as veiled commentary on electoral politics. Situating the 'My Humps' saga within a parallel world of 'netizen' expressions in Singapore, this paper examines how ongoing negotiations of intertextualities and (re)creative content on new media platforms present fresh and changing avenues of resistance to hegemonic governance. Read less

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2. The internet’s role in promoting civic engagement in China and Singapore: A Confucian view 2022

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   Yu, Andrew

   Human Affairs (Bratislava, Slovakia), Vol. 32, Issue 2, pp. 199 - 212.

   This paper discusses the Internet’s role in promoting civic engagement in Asian countries. China and Singapore were selected because they have similar ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds. This p... Read more

   This paper discusses the Internet’s role in promoting civic engagement in Asian countries. China and Singapore were selected because they have similar ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds. This paper concludes that the Internet has a limited role in promoting civic engagement due to Internet censorship and people’s political attitudes, which are deeply rooted for Confucian cultural reasons. Moreover the Internet censorship does not bother people in China and Singapore. The argument presented in this paper differs from previous studies that focused only on the Internet censorship system and ignored the cultural and socio-historical dimensions. The paper argues that the cultural and socio-historical dimensions should be considered when studying censorship. Read less

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3. Censorship and the Internet 1996

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   Ang, Peng; Nadarajan, Berlinda

   Communications Of The Acm, Vol. 39, Issue 6, pp. 72 - 78.

   In 1991, Singapore's National Computer Board began a study on how information technology could be harnessed to create new competitive advantages and improve the quality of life in Singapore. That s... Read more

   In 1991, Singapore's National Computer Board began a study on how information technology could be harnessed to create new competitive advantages and improve the quality of life in Singapore. That same year, Singapore's ministry of information and the arts began its once-a-decade review of censorship laws and standards across all media. When both reports were completed, it was clear that neither technology nor censorship could stand without each considering the other. Some censorship laws could impact negatively the diffusion of computers in society. On the other hand, new forms of media were making it difficult to maintain the current level of censorship. The dilemma was, and is, that Singapore wants to harness new technologies for development, but its citizenry also wants censorship controls in place. Censorship of the fast-growing Internet is examined from the Singapore perspective of minimizing the negative effects of the new medium while maximizing the benefits derived from it. Read less

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