@inbook {899,
	title = {Negotiating the Liberties and Boundaries of Malaysian Online Christian Expression: Case Studies},
	booktitle = {Thinking Through Malaysia: Culture and Identity in the 21st Century},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Strategic Information and Research Development Center (SIRD)},
	organization = {Strategic Information and Research Development Center (SIRD)},
	address = {Puchong},
	abstract = {How do Malaysian Christians express their personal Christianity online? Compared to other communication technologies, the Internet allows more non-institutional individual expression to come to the fore. This is mainly due to the nature of the Internet which allows greater flexibility in authorship of expression and content. Using case studies from my interviews with Christian bloggers in Malaysia who actively post Christian content online, we can see how the Internet has provided these bloggers with new tools to express their unique personal spirituality {\textendash} but at the same time, how they recreate and maintain existing offline social boundaries in the context of their personal Christianity in this {\textquoteleft}liberating{\textquoteright} platform. These case studies also provide some insight into the many ways individuals interact with cyberspace {\textendash} that individuals do, in fact, do new things on the Internet, do old things in new ways, and very importantly, do old things in old ways.},
	keywords = {Blog, boundaries, liberties, malaysia, Online, religion},
	issn = {9789675832567},
	author = {Meng Yoe Tan}
}
