Localizing the Internet : an Anthropological Account.

Localizing the Internet : an Anthropological Account.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Postill, John, 1965- author.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (178 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropology of Media, vol. 5 Anthropology of Media, vol. 5.
Subject:	Internet -- Malaysia. Internet -- Social aspects -- Malaysia -- Subang Jaya (Selangor) Internet -- Social aspects. Social sciences. Internet Internet -- Social aspects Social sciences Malaysia Malaysia -- Subang Jaya (Selangor) Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12397841

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ISBN:	9780857451989 0857451987 0857451979 9780857451972 9780857451972
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780857451972
Standard no.:	100572454

Table of 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.