The Hashtag Game: Disrupting dissent during the Bersih 4 protest

• Main Author: Azlan, Nurul Azreen
• Format: Article
• Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2020
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/93844/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22142312-BJA10001

This paper demonstrates how protest tactics, such as the use of hashtags, can be co-opted by counter-protesters, as evidenced by how the cybertroopers operated against the Bersih 4 protest in 2015. This is achieved via focusing the analysis on how geographic places were communicated on Twitter aroun...