Localizing The Internet: An Anthropological Account (Anthropology Of Media, 5),Used

Localizing The Internet: An Anthropological Account (Anthropology Of Media, 5),Used

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Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an indepth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Malaysias electronic governance laboratory. The author explores its field of residential affairs, a digitally mediated social field in which residents, civil servants, politicians, online journalists and other social agents struggle over how the locality is to be governed at the dawn of the Information Era. Drawing on the field theories of both Pierre Bourdieu and the Manchester School of political anthropology, this study challenges the unquestioned predominance of network and community as the two key sociation concepts in contemporary Internet studies. The analysis extends field theory in four new directions, namely the complex articulations between personal networking and social fields, the uneven diffusion and circulation of new field technologies and contents, intra and interfield political crises, and the emergence of new forms of residential sociality.

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