[Asia_news] [Indonesia.study.group] Reminder: ISG Seminar with Merlyna Lym, 5 October 2006

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INDONESIA STUDY GROUP

 

 

Thursday the 5th October - Seminar Room A 


Merlyna Lym (Arizona State University )


Democracy and Everyday Forms of the Internet in Indonesia:  Radical Change
or Bourgeois Pursuits 

 

 

By exploring the social history of the development of the Internet and its
uses in Indonesia, this lecture discusses the complex relationship between
the Internet and politics.  Locating the Internet within the context of
social, political and cultural characteristics of the Indonesian governance
system from the New Order to the current one, the lecture will show that the
Internet in Indonesia has emerged as a technology with a unique
socio-political configuration.  In contrast with the political context of
the earlier/more traditional media and communications technologies in the
country, the political landscape during the period of the initial
development and the convivial characteristics of the Internet technology
allowed it to provide space for a much more democratic development in
Indonesia.  Using various cases from the New Order and post-New Order eras,
this lecture will show how cyberspace has become a contested sphere where
the politics of multiple voices has emerged.  The lecture will also show
that the unique societal configuration of Internet technology is amplified
via intermodal linkages between this new and the pre-existing media
networks.

 

 

(Jointly organised with the Department of Political & Social Change)

 

 

 

The committee welcomes suggestions for seminar speakers and topics.
Please contact any of us:

COMMITTEE FOR 2006:

 

Ed Aspinall x 55915; Greg Fealy x 52302; Arief Yusuf x 52932;  Bima Sugiarto
x 57638; Chris Manning x 53885; Della Temenggung x 52760

 

                                                                        
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