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This 12 page paper evaluates new media and the use of the Internet in both China and Singapore. Does the government use the Internet for control or do the people use the Internet to try to avert government control? Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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information is a given. However, in societies where there are rules and regulations concerning information, there is a sense that the use of the Internet and new media is limited.
This is true, but only to an extent. While such things are liberating, they can be meted out in a controlled fashion. This is seemingly what has been done, at
least in China. Interestingly, these tools are sometimes used against the very government that controls them. This comes as no surprise. Political groups often spring up on the Internet and
it is a way to relay information. As the Internet and new media becomes a way of life in this global society, there will be many challenges and changes. For
countries like China and Singapore, this is certainly true. Chase (2002) asks the following: "Does the Internet provide dissidents with potent new tools that they can use to promote their
causes, break through the barriers of censorship, and perhaps ultimately undermine the power and authority of nondemocratic regimes? Or, on the contrary, is it more likely that those authoritarian governments
will use the Internet itself to alter the landscape?" (p.3). The answer likely lies in between. To an extent, the government tries to control the people by controlling the Internet.
Yet, it likely realizes, it can only do so much to control something that is rather free and easy. At the same time, those who are protesting against the government
can use the Internet, and new media, as a vehicle for change. In China and Singapore, there are cultural norms. How are these affected by the Internet and new media?
It seems that to an extent culture is intertwined with political action. There are no significant political groups which exist in China but the government contends that "the Falungong spiritual
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