There are two new articles coming out recently. One is from my relatively new blogosphere research where I compared Iranian and Indonesian blogosphere and the other is an article that I finished long time ago and it’s been delayed at the publisher/editor, even though my article was fully accepted with zero revision. The second article is on meta-narrative, which is conceptually still valid and will retain its currency at any moment even though the cases were past time.

Here is an excerpt and a link to my latest article, the first one I mentioned above:
Lim, M. (2009), ’Global Muslim Blogosphere: Mosaics of Global-Local Discourses,’ in M. McLelland and G. Goggin (eds.) Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms, London: Routledge, p. 178-195.

“The cases of the Indonesian and Iranian blogospheres clearly show how blogs function as a means for organizing and assimilating experience, as well as voicing opinions. While global issues and ideas of global community such as Ummah, do resonate beyond nation-states, community boundaries still remain. Even for those who are writing/reading in the same language (English), there does not appear to be any cross-cultural communication between Iranians and Indonesians. Yet, while there is no significant dialogue or cross-cultural communication, contrary to polarization theory, there is no example of deep polarization in either the Indonesian or Iranian blogospheres. What do exist are the many timbered voices not previously found in traditional media…. etc etc..(just read the article to know more )”