[Asia_news] Reminder PSC seminar 5 Oct. 12:30 pm

[Lyn Ning]

Dept of Political and Social Change 

SEMINAR co-hosted with the Indonesia Study Group

 

Topic 

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

 

Speaker 

Dr Merlyna Lim 

Assistant Professor, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State
University

 

Date & Venue 

12:30 - 2:00 pm, Thursday 5 October, Seminar Room A, Coombs Building, ANU 

 

 

Abstract 

 

By exploring the social history of the development of the Internet and its
uses in Indonesia, this lecture entangles 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 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 spaces 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
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.

 

Biography 

 

Dr Merlyna Lim currently is an Assistant Professor of the Consortium of
Science, Policy and Outcomes <http://www.cspo.org>  and the School of
Justice and Social <http://www.asu.edu/clas/justice/>  Inquiry at Arizona
State <http://www.merlyna.org/www.asu.edu>  University. She was awarded a
Ph.D. with distinction from University of Twente in Enschede, the
Netherlands, <http://www.utwente.nl>  in September 2005 with a dissertation
entitled "@rchipelago Online: The Internet and Political Activism in
Indonesia." Her research interests revolve around the mutual shaping of
technology and society, focusing particularly on social, cultural, and
political dimensions of the new media and information and communication
technology. Lim holds the following awards: Annenberg
<http://www.annenberg.edu>  Networked Publics
<http://netpublics.annenberg.edu>  Research Fellowship (2005-2006), Henry
<http://www.eastwestcenterwashington.org/Visiting%20Scholars/2004fellows.htm
>  Luce Southeast Asia fellowship (2004), NWO Wotro Fellowship
<http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_65PD4J_Eng>  (2003-2005), and
ASIST <http://www.asis.org>  International Paper Contest Winner (2002).

 

 

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Lyn Ning 

Department of Political and Social Change 

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies 

Coombs Building, Building 9 

Australian National University 

Tel:  6125 4790 

Fax: 6125 5523 

Email:  <mailto:lyn.ning at anu.edu.au> lyn.ning at anu.edu.au