“Digital Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia” for Japan’s Research Institute of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (MIETI)

This project entails researching, writing technical reports, and developing a real-time dashboard and data visualizations on digital authoritarianism in Southeast Asia. It is funded by Japan’s Research Institute of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

• Created a visual basic program that would perform web scrapping for creating a corpus of content from 700+ website links from our database.
• Created and updated digital authoritarianism bibliography (rolling project) 1300+ entry bibliography.
• Translated a Zotero database into an Excel database that can be used to create a corpus of website content.

Graduate students are involved in all project activities and interacting with faculty and other graduate students in Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan, and attending periodic virtual meetings with members of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry.