Social media : to embrace or to contain?

• Main Author: Ng, Hon Kuan.
• Other Authors: Chong, Alan Chia Siong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53072
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Social media, the main organising platform of social movements since 2008, have presented various dilemmas to the states throughout the world. This thesis attempts to unpack these dilemmas and examine the impact of social media on Westphalian conceptions such as sovereignty and identity of sovereign...