CAPSTRANS CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2006
Background to the Event
Workshop Program
Abstracts and Participant Bios [pdf 49kb]
Editors
Background to the Event
From the mid-1990s onwards, the Internet has shifted fundamentally from its co-ordinates in English-speaking countries, especially North America, to become an essential medium in a wide range of countries, cultures, and languages. The vast body of Anglophone scholarship into the Internet is predicated on research on and about English-language websites by academics and other researchers working and publishing in English. Despite the fact that there is also a large body of work being produced by scholars in non-English-speaking cultures and locales, hardly any of this work is being translated and it has had little impact on theorization of the developing fields of Internet and web studies.
The purpose of this workshop and anthology, Internationalizing Internet Studies, was to acknowledge that Internet use and Internet studies take place elsewhere in various national and international contexts. Participants sought to uncover how non-Anglophone uses of the Internet might challenge certain preconceived notions about the technology and its social impacts as well as the manner in which Internet studies is taken up, valued and taught outside the circuits of understanding prevalent in Anglophone academia. Through bringing together researchers whose daily experience of the Internet is mediated through non-Anglophone languages and cultures as well as researchers situated within the Anglophone academy whose work focuses on cultures outside North America and Europe, we hope to promote the visibility of work already being done outside the Anglophone world. We also aim to encourage new work that critically engages with Anglophone Internet scholarship that is based on research into diverse locales and draws upon a range of intellectual traditions.
internationalizing internet studies
workshop program
AM Session 9:00 - 12:00
8:45 Workshop and AoIR Pre-Registration
9:00 - 9:10
Welcome and Opening Address
Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland
9:10 10:20 Panel 1 (Chair, Gerard Goggin)
Susanna Paasonen What Cyberspace? Contexts and Concepts in Internet Research
Urmila Goel The Indernet - Negotiating "India" in German
Nanette Gottlieb Language use on the Internet in Japan
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee
10:40 12:00 Panel 2 (Chair, Mark McLelland)
Helga Tawil Souri Americanizing Palestine through Internet Development
Nasya Bahfen Modems, Malaysia and Modernity: Characteristics and Policy Challenges in Internet-Led Development
Merlyna Lim Muslim Voices in the Blogsphere: Mosaics of Local-global Discourses
12:00 1:00 Lunch
PM Session 1:00 - 4:00
1:00 - 2:20 Panel 3 (Chair, Gerard Goggin)
Pamela Koch Beauty is in the Eye of the QQ User: Perception and Press about Instant Messaging in China
Terri He Hybridity Online: the Cybercommunity of Spiteful Tots
Fran Martin That Global Feeling: Sexual Subjectivities and Imagined Geographies in Chinese-Language Lesbian Cyberspace
2:20 -2:45 Coffee
2:45 - 3:45 Panel 4 (Chair, Mark McLelland)
Larissa Hjorth The Uninvited Guest: A Case Study of Korean Virtual Communities
Seunghyun Yoo Characteristics and Capacities of a Korean Online Community: What Keeps them Going
3:45 - 4:30 Open Discussion
5.00 Association of Internet Researchers Conference Opening Reception
about the editors
Dr Gerard Goggin is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in Department of Media and Communication at the University of Sydney. He has published widely on Internet and new media, including Digital Disability (2003), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004) and Cell Phone Culture (forthcoming 2006). Email: gerard.goggin@arts.usyd.edu.au
Dr Mark McLelland is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Wollongong and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies. Recent Internet-related publications include Japanese Cybercultures (2003) and Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (2005). Email: markmc@uow.edu.au
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