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Recent confrontations between Malaysian bloggers and Malaysian authorities have called attention to the role of blogging in Malaysian political life. Tight control over the Malaysian press combined with a national encouragement of Internet activities has resulted in an embrace of blogging as an outlet for political expression. In this paper we examine the promise and difficulties of monitoring a local blogosphere from the outside, and estimate the size of the Malaysian ‘sopo’ (social/political) blogosphere.
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Ulicny, B. (2008). Modeling Malaysian Public Opinion by Mining the Malaysian Blogosphere. In: Liu, H., Salerno, J.J., Young, M.J. (eds) Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77672-9_23
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