The Internet in Asia through Singapore
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Author(s)
Graham, Connor
Kerr, Eric
Pang, Natalie
Fischer, Michael M. J.
Date Issued
October 2018
Journal
East Asian Science, Techonology and Society: An International Journal
Publisher
Duke University Press
Citation
Graham, Connor et al. "The Internet in Asia through Singapore ." East Asian Science, Techonology and Society: An International Journal 12, 4 (October 2018): 479–494 © 2018 Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
The Internet or, as these authors argue, Internets (plural) in Asia are composed of cables and exchanges, protocols and firewalls, regulations and other legal devices, making them subject to investment and governance strategies, as well as treaties and court cases. But they are also composed of figures, layers, stories, and rumors. These latter descriptors provide a heuristic framework of social features that, together with metaphors from folklore, provide analytic tools for understanding the diversity, conflicts, competitions, and disengagements of the patchwork of Internet development across Asia. The authors further argue that Singapore provides an exceptionally valuable comparative site from which to explore these features. The first part of this article lays out some of the comparative features, and the second part turns to the four themes or heuristics of figures, layers, stories, and rumors, developed through an STS research cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Tembusu College, both at the National University of Singapore.
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General Social Sciences
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
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https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-7218957
