Digital Activism in Asia reader / Nishant Shah, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Sumandro Chattapadhyay.

Includes bibliographical references.

From taboo to beautiful: Menstrupedia / Denisse Albornoz, annotated by Nandini Chami -- Keeping our voices loud: the evolution of CrowdVoice.org / Esra'a Al Shafei ; annotated by Puthiya Purayil Sneha -- Digital natives' alternative approach to social change / Maesy Angelina ; annotated by Sarah McKeever -- We come from an activist background / an interview with Htaike Htaike Aung, MIDO -- Digital natives and the return of the local cause / Anat Ben-David ; annotated by Padmini Ray Murray -- Greatfire.org / Sumandro Chattapadhyay -- Taiwan's Sunflower protest: digital anatomy of a movement / Tracey Cheng ; annotated by Puthiya Purayil Sneha -- Digital revolution in reverse: Syria's media diversifies offline / Armand Hurault ; annotated by Puthiya Purayil Sneha -- India calling / Rachel Jolley ; annotated by Puthiya Purayil Sneha -- Digital populism in South Korea? Internet culture and the trouble with direct participation / Youngmi Kim ; annotated by Sumandro Chattapadhyay -- Many clicks but little sticks: social media activism in Indonesia / Merlyna Lim ; annotated by Nishant Shah -- Rising voices: indigenous language digital activism / Subhashish Panigrahi ; annotated by Padmini Ray Murray -- Towards 2 way participation / Prabhas Pokharel ; annotated by Padmini Ray Murray -- Wikipedia, Bhanwari Devi and the need for an alert feminist public / Urvashi Sarkar ; annotated by Shobha S.V. -- Digital natives in the name of a cause: from "flash mob" to "human flesh search" / YiPing (Zona) Tsou ; annotated by Nandini Chami -- Three fources acting behind the development of the Internet / Hu Yong ; annotated by Puthiya Purayil Sneha -- Old and new media: converging during the Pakistan emergency (March 2007-February 2008) / Human Yusuf ; annotated by Shobha S.V. -- Redefining youth activism through digital technology in Singapore / Weiyu Zhang ; annotated by Sarah McKeever.

The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digital shall be used for, and what its consequences will be, are both up for speculation and negotiation. Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West's attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia. This reader crowd-sources critical tools, concepts, analyses, and annotations, self-identified by a network of change makers in Asia as important in their own practices within their own contexts.