Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account

by John Postill

Book Overview

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 in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Malaysia's electronic governance laboratory. The author explores its field of residential affairs, a digitally mediated social field in which residents,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857451979
• ISBN13: 9780857451972
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"