CAPSTRANS CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2006

• WORKSHOP ON UNDERSTANDING THE INTERNET IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
  25-26 September 2006

The Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), with the support of the Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network (APFRN), convened a workshop on the theme of understanding the Internet in the Asia-Pacific region for postgraduate students.

Background
Aim of Workshop
Program, Abstracts and Presenter Bios [pdf 329kb]

Background

The purpose of this one-and-a-half-day ECR seminar on “Understanding the Internet in the Asia/Pacific” was to acknowledge that Internet use and Internet studies take place “elsewhere” in various national and international contexts.

Aims of Workshop

The aim of the workshop was to bring together leading Internet experts working on Asia/Pacific Internet cultures (Nasya Bahfen, Merlyna Lim and Mark McLelland) who will offer a seminar on their region of expertise, discuss their work and highlight some of the difficulties and particularities of researching the Internet in the region, and give Australian postgraduate students and ECRs working on Asia/Pacific Internet cultures and histories the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from leading experts in the field.

Through the presentation of short papers on their research, participants had the opportunity to discuss their research with peers and with a number of senior research mentors.