Localizing the Internet : an anthropological account / John Postill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Postill, John, 1965-

Series:

Anthropology of Media, vol. 5

Anthropology of the media ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects--Malaysia--Subang Jaya (Selangor).

Internet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

An Internet field

Localizing the Internet

Research setting

Smarting partners

Personal media

Internet dramas

Residential socialities

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857451989

0857451987

OCLC:

751694583