Critical Speech in Southeast Asian Grey Literature During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Published in the Human Rights Law Review, Critical Speech in Southeast Asia Grey Literature During the COVID-19 Pandemic  attempts to partially address the gap in academic research on critical speech in Southeast Asia during the pandemic. The author, Stewart Manley uses SHAPE-SEA ™s op-eds (identified as grey literature) as the basis for his empirical research and assigns a ˜criticalness score ™ based on the frequency of criticizing the government and the severity of the language used.  Noting the challenges of grey literature, the author uses the timeliness of the op-eds to analyze the human rights issue of critical speech. Results of his empirical research can be found at Human Rights Law Review website.