TY  - BOOK
AU  - Postill,John
TI  - Localizing the Internet: an Anthropological Account
T2  - Anthropology of Media, vol. 5
SN  - 9780857451989
AV  - HN655.2.I56 .P67 2011 
U1  - 302.23109595 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Internet
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Subang Jaya (Selangor)
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Malaisie
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Sciences sociales
KW  - social sciences
KW  - aat
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - Information Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Gruppenbildung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kommunikation
KW  - Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
KW  - Sozialanthropologie
KW  - Vorort
KW  - Kuala Lumpur
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Localizing the Internet; Contents; Preface; Photo-Essay; Chronology; Chapter 1 An Internet Field; Chapter 2 Localizing the Internet; Chapter 3 Research Setting; Chapter 4 Smarting Partners; Chapter 5 Personal Media; Chapter 6 Internet Dramas; Chapter 7 Residential Socialities; Conclusion; FAQs; References; Index
N2  - At a critical time of democratic reform across many parts of Southeast Asia, Subang Jaya is regarded as Malaysia's electronic governance laboratory. The focus of the study is Subang Jaya's field of residential affairs, a digitally mediated social field in which residents, civil servants, politicians, online journalists and other social agents struggle over how the locality is to be governed at the dawn of the "Information Era." Drawing on the field theories of both Pierre Bourdieu and the Manchester School of political anthropology, this study challenges the unquestioned predominance of "netwo
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