ABSTRACT
The chapters in this volume lay to rest any possibility of sweeping generalizations that IT impacts Asian politics by inexorably triggering democratic change in the nation-states it is introduced into. Admittedly, there are degrees of Asian democratization enabled through the proficiency in grassroots initiatives empowered by the availability of Internet access and social media platforms. And there are equally disciplinary requirements that are called into being when IT implementation demands a quality of infrastructural development and policing of the social peace that can only be supplied by government. This is the nature of alterity between online and offline politics.
