Localizing the Internet : an Anthropological Account.

By:

Postill, John, 1965- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Anthropology of Media, vol. 5Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780857451989
0857451987
0857451979
9780857451972

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic book.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

302.23109595

LOC classification:

HN655.2.I56 .P67 2011

Other classification:

AP 18420
LC 13420

Online resources:

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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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.