Internet Popular Culture and (Everyday) Politics: Methodological & Ethical Critiques from Southeast Asia...

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Crystal Abidin Natalie Pang

Internet Popular Culture and (Everyday) Politics

Methodological & Ethical Critiques from Southeast Asia

Crystal Abidin, Natalie Pang

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English

Routledge
05 September 2025

Asian history; Popular culture; Media studies; Political campaigning & advertising; Press & journalism

This edited collection considers how scholars conduct research on (everyday) politics in Southeast Asia via networks of internet popular culture. This includes artefacts, networks, groups, and cultures that are specific to Southeast Asian online practices, and that seek to represent, advocate for, provoke, or question how citizens ""do"" politics online.

In the Southeast Asia region in particular, these behind-the-scenes minutiae of everyday decisions are all the more under-valued when researchers have been taught, conditioned, or cautioned to tiptoe around taboo or political topics implicitly policed by states and governments. The combination of media regimes with limited press freedoms, the employment of sedition acts against citizens, and the need to be strategic to secure state and industry funding for research have pressured or motivated scholars to strategically obscure certain research anecdotes in favour of a smoother publishing journey and/or posterity. As such, this collection serves as a sounding board and collection of reflections on what it really looks like to conduct research on everyday politics online in the Southeast Asian region, while navigating innovative media methods, negotiating inter-disciplinary gatekeeping, demands of publishing in tiered journals, and the tensions around legitimising one's methodological choices. This collection features four accounts of scholars contemplating the methodological and ethical conundrums when conducting research on Southeast Asian internet popular culture and everyday politics.

This book will be useful for the readers in the disciplines of anthropology, Asian studies, communications, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Edited by: Crystal Abidin, Natalie Pang
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 310g
ISBN: 9781041024651
ISBN 10: 1041024657
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 05 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

INTRODUCTION – Internet Popular Culture and (Everyday) Politics: Methodological & Ethical Critiques from Southeast Asia 1. Exploring methodological issues in studying contentious communication on Malaysian social media 2. Social Media-Circulated Underground Music and Politics: The Case of The Lamidet Society Muria Endah Sokowati and Fajar Junaedi 3. Pseudonymous Influencers and Horny 'Alts' in the Philippines: Media Manipulation Be Media Manipulation Beyond ""Fake News' e News'"" 4. Studying Private Messaging Groups: Misinformation in WhatsApp Family Groupchats, and Research Regimes in Singapore(ans) CONCLUSION – Internet Research and the Way Forward

Crystal Abidin (PhD) is Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University. She is Director of the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab and Founder of the TikTok Cultures Research Network. Crystal is a digital anthropologist focusing on social media pop cultures especially in the Asia Pacific region. Reach her at wishcrys.com. Natalie Pang (PhD) is Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore. Her research lies at the intersection of technology and society, and her research projects are organised under the themes of digital citizenship, inclusion and well-being.