Global South Perspectives on Youth Culture and Gender Imaginations in the Technological Society
In: Journal of creative communications, Band 8, Heft 2-3, S. 77-88
ISSN: 0973-2594
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In: Journal of creative communications, Band 8, Heft 2-3, S. 77-88
ISSN: 0973-2594
In: A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, S. 539-555
In: Asian journal of communication, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 428-430
ISSN: 1742-0911
In: Review of development and change, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 308-322
ISSN: 2632-055X
In: Science, technology & society: an international journal devoted to the developing world, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 231-249
ISSN: 0973-0796
Making use of the recent STS focus on the idea of subpolitics, the study seeks to understand the limited yet important implications of the rise of the political twitterati1for liberal democracy in Singapore. The phenomenon marks a significant development not in terms of facilitating mass upheavals or radical reforms as elsewhere in the world, but in terms of contributing towards the construction of counter narratives to the historically articulated and previously uncontested discourses of progress, efficiency, productivity and success that in part have legitimated the political establishment in Singapore. By critiquing the regime's myriad narratives of accomplishments and constructing subversive counter narratives through 'series tweets' that were infused with wit, sarcasm, parody and satire, the political twitterati in Singapore has expanded the vistas of democratic participation while remaining loyal to the country's non-Western liberal democratic framework.