[Air-l] CFP: The Internet and Politics in Pacific Asia

[Merlyna Lim]

Call for papers for Panel on *The Internet and Politics in Pacific Asia*
ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars), Kuala Lumpur, 2-5
August 2007.

*Limited funding available*

Organizer: Merlyna Lim (Merlyna.Lim at asu.edu), Arizona State University
Sponsors:
- Consortium of Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University
- Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii

A decade after its emergence as a popular global medium, the Internet
has interwoven with many contentious political issues while also
inspiring alternative visions of political reform across the globe,
including in Pacific (East and Southeast) Asia. Presenting cases from
various countries in this world region, this panel attempts to
disentangle the complex relationships between the Internet and politics
through studies on how political actors at various level—individual,
local, nation-state and global—have been able to use the Internet to
assist in both controlling and liberating individuals, groups, and other
would-be agents of (political) changes. This relationship between
technology and political power is not only one of the central inquiries
for researchers in the field of Internet studies, but also a critical
question for the broader studies on media & politics and technology
& politics. The study of the political dimensions of the Internet
still tends to be overwhelmingly concentrated in and focused on the
North American and Western European context and experiences.  At the
same time, existing work on the politics of the Internet in non-Western
context is mostly framed by assumptions found in the Western cases and
predominantly based on a technological-deterministic point of view. The
non-deterministic and contextually anchored study of the political
implications of the medium in non-Western context is still in infancy
and there is much to be explored. Questions of power and governance lie
at the heart of many of these inquiries.  This panel explores these
questions by relocating them in a non-Western context of Pacific Asia.

Please contact Merlyna Lim (Merlyna.Lim at asu.edu) with cc to Asha Pandi
(apandi at hawaii.edu) if you're interested in participating, with proposed
abstract (200-300 words) and a brief CV by 8 December 2006.

There will be a limited amount of funding for presenters who are based
in Pacific Asia, especially those from developing countries. Those who
are interested to be funded should submit a full CV along with abstract
and  a list of related publications (and one sample of writing, if
available).

For more information on ICAS 5, please view the conference website at
http://www.icas5kl.com

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"A picture is worth a thousand words but it uses up a thousand times the
memory"
Merlyna Lim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Justice and Social Inquiry &
Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
Arizona State University
ASU Box 874401
Tempe, AZ 85287-4401
http://www.merlyna.org

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