Open AccessInternet Authorship: Social and Political Implications Within Kyrgyzstan
Author(s) -
Srinivasan Ramesh,
Fish Adam
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of computer‐mediated communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.15
H-Index - 119
ISSN - 1083-6101
DOI - 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01453.x
Subject(s) - grassroots , the internet , politics , political science , social media , media studies , public relations , sociology , law , world wide web , computer science
This paper presents the results of our corroborated study of grassroots Internet sites and authors in the nation of Kyrgyzstan, exceptional in Central Asia for its deregulated Internet policy. The study presents a set of semistructured interviews with notable grassroots Internet authors and activists, including bloggers, forum participants, and journalists, and analyzes this data via a critical communication and media studies lens to point to significant implications on emergent social, cultural, and political movements in the nation.