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The internet was made available commercially to the Indonesian public in the mid-1990s. By 2015, in Jakarta and other cities, such as Bandung and Surabaya, urbanites experienced near-seamless online–offline sociality by logging in and out of social-media accounts on their mobile phones and via free wireless-network access at school, work, cafés and restaurants (warung), and even convenience stores. This article tells the story of the Indonesian internet by looking at the historical development of its infrastructure, especially the internet's access points. To trace the coevolution of the infrastructure of Indonesia's internet access points, the author relied on a longitudinal study involving repeated observations spanning a period of sixteen years, from 1999 to 2015. The fieldwork took place in Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, and Surabaya.

This article explores the phenomenon of curhat , a form of emotional communication and expression in Indonesia, and how it has evolved into a critical method of political communication, profoundly shaping social media and political discourse in the country. By examining how curhat transitions from private expressions to public engagements within \"scalable affective sociality,\" the study reveals the fluidity of this practice in shaping personal connections, social dynamics, and political communities. In Indonesia, curhat marks a shift from identity-driven politics to visibilitycentered politics, where collective visibility and interpersonal exchanges take precedence. The article highlights how curhat contributes to the virality of social media activism while being vulnerable to manipulation by political elites through \"algorithmic politics,\" a form of politics that operates by strategically manipulating algorithms to dominate media spheres and shape public opinion. Ultimately, curhat has become a key element in political conversations, blending emotion with political mobilization. It redefines the affective landscape of Indonesian politics, influencing the quality and trajectory of political discourse and engagement.

This article delves into the intricate relationship between social media and politics, specifically concerning the dynamics of activism in Southeast Asia. It reveals that regional and domestic political conditions, the logic of marketing, and the prevalence of algorithmic culture affect the salience of this relationship. The article highlights that in today’s social media landscape, civil society operates against growing state control and repression while simultaneously navigating the emergence of algorithmic politics often characterized by binary populist frameworks and the expansion of the cyber-propaganda industry. In closing, this article calls for efforts to cultivate deep deliberation spheres needed to sustain long-term civic engagement and preserve democratic activism in the region.

Current Western discourses on women's movements in Saudi Arabia proffer an understanding that is adverse to history and sidelines the region's local knowledges, replacing such knowledges with a techno-utopian assumption that technology would produce better social or political conditions, and exhibit a pattern of disembodiment. This article endeavours to disturb ahistorical, monolithic, and disembodied accounts of Saudi women's movements through three interventions: the historicization of the Saudi women's activism and feminist movements; the recognition of the heterogeneity of Saudi women's movements; and finally, the acknowledgement of the corporeality of Saudi women's resistance. These interventions facilitate a better, more nuanced, and more contextual understanding of revolutionary and feminist practices, not only in Saudi Arabia, but also elsewhere in the world.

Background Current Western discourses on women’s movements in Saudi Arabia proffer an understanding that is adverse to history and sidelines the region’s local knowledges, replacing such knowledges with a techno-utopian assumption that technology would produce better social or political conditions, and exhibit a pattern of disembodiment.Analysis  This article endeavours to disturb ahistorical, monolithic, and disembodied accounts of Saudi women’s movements through three interventions: the historicization of the Saudi women’s activism and feminist movements; the recognition of the heterogeneity of Saudi women’s movements; and finally, the acknowledgement of the corporeality of Saudi women’s resistance.Conclusion and implications These interventions facilitate a better, more nuanced, and more contextual understanding of revolutionary and feminist practices, not only in Saudi Arabia, but also elsewhere in the world.Contexte  Les discours occidentaux actuels dépeignent les mouvements féministes en Arabie saoudite d’une manière qui est contraire à l’histoire et qui marginalise les savoirs locaux de la région. Ces discours occidentaux remplacent les savoirs locaux par une approche techno-utopique selon laquelle la technologie réaliserait de meilleures conditions sociales ou politiques. Ces discours manifestent en outre une tendance vers la désincarnation.Analyse  Cet article met en question les comptes rendus ahistoriques, monolithiques et désincarnés sur les mouvements féministes saoudiens en soulignant : l’historicisation du militantisme des femmes saoudiennes et des mouvements féministes dans le pays; la reconnaissance de l’hétérogénéité des mouvements féministes saoudiens; et finalement la corporalité de la résistance par les femmes saoudiennes.Conclusion et implications  Ces mises au point permettent une meilleure compréhension, mieux contextualisée et plus nuancée, de pratiques révolutionnaires et féministes, non seulement en Arabie saoudite mais aussi ailleurs dans le monde.

Both newspapers reported that 50-million Facebook profiles of Americans were harvested by data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, in developing tools to support Donald Trump's campaign in the United States 2016 presidential election. Keywords for this special issue include animal rights, Canada, citizen journalism, computer science, crowdsourcing, driving, electronic culture (internet-based), embodiment, feminism, gender, framing, Indigenous rights, legacy media, memes, portability, Reddit, Saudi Arabia, seal hunts, social media, socio-technical, stereotypes, Sweet Brown, Syria, #sealfie, technological utopianism, technology, Twitter, and WomemDrive. Cases covered in this special issue also highlight the lived experiences of different social groups, including under-represented ones such as low-income African Americans, the Indigenous communities, and Arab women. [...]Bumble's infrastructure restricts the app's capacity to achieve its creator's stated social justice objectives.

This introductory article lays the groundwork for the special issue on \"Social Media and Society in Indonesia.\" It examines the co-constitutive relationship between social media and Indonesian society, focusing on their mutual shaping within enduring socio-cultural dynamics. The article calls for a nuanced understanding of how technologies are localized and how diverse \"social media publics\" emerge in the Indonesian context. It begins by tracing the social and material histories of Indonesian social media and subsequently explores three key themes that emerge from the curated collection: the business and labor of cultivating social media publics; social media's political publics; and social media's religious publics. Challenging dominant narratives of social media as a homogenous phenomenon, the article positions Indonesia as a critical lens for analyzing and reimagining global social media discourse.

We are pleased to publish the final six articles of a two-part series on data power. Following the first series, \"Data Power - TWo\" also focuses on critical questions and reflections on the social and political consequences of data, particularly in large database systems. The editors of this special section, Tracey P. Lauriault and Merlyna Lim, hosted the Data Power 2017 Conference in Ottawa.