[ecrea] CFP: Digital Media and Borders: Infrastructures, Mobilities, and Practices across Asia and Beyond

*Digital Media and Borders: Infrastructures, Mobilities, and Practices 
across Asia and Beyond*

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*Workshop
7-9 December 2017
Lingnan University, Hong Kong*

Invited speakers: Brett Neilson, Jack Qiu, Ned Rossiter, Nishant Shah, 
Ravi Sundaram
Workshop organizers: Rolien Hoyng, Iam-chong Ip, Lisa Leung, Yvonne Yau
Sponsored by: Lingnan University and Kwan Fong Cultural Research and 
Development Programme.

Digital communication, despite its apparent immateriality, remains 
dependent on infrastructure placed somewhere. This workshop focuses on 
the intersection of urban situatedness and geo-location in order to 
examine the spatial relations that digital infrastructures either make 
part of or generate, especially in Asia. The internet features a layered 
design, including undersea cables, Cloud architecture, platforms, and 
apps. In what ways does this design reproduce or undo borders and 
territories? Relinquishing assumptions of a singular global regime of 
cybernetic power, how does the internet as stack transform the 
governance of populations, now addressed as “users,” and what 
contradictions emerge in this process? Moreover, considering that 
different bodies relate to digital infrastructure differently, how do 
users negotiate and exploit the modes of power afforded by digital 
infrastructure? How do these processes amount to either the reproduction 
of dominant formations of citizenship or alternative identifications and 
subjectivities, for instance for migrants or “uncivil” users?

We welcome critical scholarship and non-traditional inquiries that help 
us reflect on digital infrastructures and practices in relation to the 
production of space and the particularities of place and context in Asia 
and beyond.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  * Digital infrastructure, (extra)statecraft, urbanisms
  * Local or global apps, platforms, and data-driven governance
  * Speculative digital culture
  * “Uncivil” webs: hacking, porn, radical free speech, trolling
  * Digital media, citizenship, populism
  * Digital media, migration, and belonging

A conference dinner is planned for the evening of 7 December. On the 
morning of the 9th we invite you to join a local excursion exploring 
digital infrastructure and borders in Hong Kong. There is no conference fee.


Abstracts of max. 500 words are due by 15 July and should be sent to 
(digitalmediaonsite /at/ gmail.com). Authors will be notified of acceptance via 
email by the end of July. Full papers are expected no shorter than 10 
days before the start of the workshop. Please provide full name, 
affiliation, contact information, and a short bio with your abstract 
submission. Guidelines for presentation will be provided upon acceptance 
of the abstract.

Event webpage: http://www.ln.edu.hk/ihss/crd/CFP2017.html
Enquiries: (digitalmediaonsite /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(digitalmediaonsite /at/ gmail.com)>


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