[Air-L] Special Issue on “Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia” published in Convergence

[Saif Shahin]

Dear friends!

Our special issue on "Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia" has just come
out in Convergence journal. Please take a look.

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/current

The issue comprises 19 articles examining the practices, motivations,
challenges, and concerns about digital visibility from Azerbaijan to Japan,
China to the Philippines. We have tried to foreground themes, communities,
and locations that are less visible in academic literature — including
racialised and gendered minorities, underground artistic groups, diasporic
communities and so on. But the articles also look at the reasons why some
highly visible phenomena, such as K-pop, achieved their success.

Many thanks to all the authors, reviewers as well as friends who helped
publicise our call for papers — including many on this listserv. As guest
editors, we worked on putting this issue together for two years and are
quite proud of the result. We hope that you would find it interesting and
useful for your own work.

Best wishes,
Saif, also on behalf of Qian, Jing and Hiromi

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*Saif Shahin, Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor <https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/s-s-shahin> of
Digital Culture
Director, Digital South Research Lab
<https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/humanities/digital-south-lab>
Tilburg University, Netherlands

Associate Editor
<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/witp20/about-this-journal#editorial-board>
Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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