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[Publication] Dis/Connection: Internet infrastructure in Indonesia
Another publication is just out. Titled “Dis/Connection: The Co-Evolution of Sociocultural and Material Infrastructures of the Internet in Indonesia“, my latest article is part of the special issue #105 of Indonesia (published by Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program) on “Infrastructures”. (The article is also published at JSTOR archive). About this article, I wrote: From warnet…
Tips: Handling Q&A Session
My grad students asked me for some tips to handle conferences’ Q&A session. Here are my answers. I actually use these not only for conferences, but also in everyday interactions. 1. when you think you really know the answer, wait 5 seconds before you say it. sometimes you don’t really know whether you really know…
Why did chicken cross the road?
Why did #chicken cross the road? #discourse reading Foucault, Bourdieu, and Couldry. #profLim #teaching
Networked Politics
“[…] it is misleading to claim that online deliberation and online mobilization practices have really deepened democracy.” “We want to emphasize that the Internet enables multiple, overlapped and diverse networked political spheres to emerge. These are contested spheres that are sometimes messy, chaotic, segmented and even anarchic. Not all of these aim to advance and…
Disciplining Dissent: Freedom, Control, and Digital Activism in Southeast Asia
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