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Localizing the internet beyond communities and networks

 The New Media and Society forum is now open for comments on:    Postill, J. (2008). Localizing the internet beyond communities and networks. New Media & Society, 10(3), 413-431. As the numbers of...

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Ethnographic setting: Subang Jaya

This is the sixth in a series of posts on my working paper “Local leadership and personal media: a practice-theoretical approach”. See previous post here and first post here. From right: the author,...

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Running cyburbia: Internet and local governance in Subang Jaya

A few years ago I became involved in a debate about the governance of a web portal in Subang Jaya, the Kuala Lumpur suburb where I carried out fieldwork in 2003-2004. The portal, named USJ.com.my, has...

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Exploring sociality

In 2003-2004 I carried out fieldwork in USJ (short for UEP Subang Jaya), a recently completed middle-class suburb of Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia. The initial aim was to find out whether new digital...

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Jeff Ooi: from local internet activist to Member of Parliament

This is the ninth in a series of posts on my working paper “Local leadership and personal media: a practice-theoretical approach”. See also previous and first post. Jeff Ooi’s life trajectory bears a...

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The weakness of weak ties

I have just submitted an article for publication entitled  ”The weakness of weak ties: personal media and social leadership in a Malaysian suburb”. Many thanks to those of you who’ve contributed to...

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Review notes on Boellstorff’s (2008) Second Life ethnography

Boellstorff, T. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton: Princeton University Press. I have been blogging my notes on Boellstorff’s ethnography of...

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Localizing the Internet manuscript – update

A number of people have asked me about my forthcoming ethnography of internet activism in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, Localizing the Internet (Berghahn Books). Well, after a long wait both readers’ reports...

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Book review (1) of Localizing the Internet, by John Postill

Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. John Postill. Oxford: Berghahn, 2011. xxv + 150 pp., figures, photographs, FAQs, index. JENNIFER COOL University of Southern California American...

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