[Commlist] CFP - 4S Conference on "Rethinking Platform Studies in and With Asia"

Please consider submitting your abstracts to the open panel *“Rethinking 
Platform Studies in and With Asia”* at the *4S Conference in Honolulu* 
this fall, *November 8-11*. The submission deadline is *May 26th.*

*Open Panel organizers:*
Elaine Yuan, (eyuan /at/ uic.edu) <mailto:(eyuan /at/ uic.edu)>
Lin Zhang, (Lin.zhang /at/ unh.edu) <mailto:(Lin.zhang /at/ unh.edu)>
Merlyna Lim, (Merlyna.Lim /at/ carleton.ca) <mailto:(Merlyna.Lim /at/ carleton.ca)>
Asmita Bhutani Vij, (Asmita.bhutani /at/ mail.utoronto.ca) 
<mailto:(Asmita.bhutani /at/ mail.utoronto.ca)>

*Conference info*: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php 
<https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php>
*Panel info*: https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=31405 
<https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=31405>

The 'platform turn' introduced a new framework to comprehend the 
technological, economic, and discursive practices of the post-industrial 
digital economy. The understanding of platforms as the new frontiers of 
the globalized digital economy, however, has only gained further depth 
and nuances when situated outside the epicenter of Silicon Valley in 
other parts of the world, especially Asia, the world's fastest-growing 
region. The variegated local experiences, dynamism and heterogeneity of 
platform economies in Asia both complement and challenge Silicon 
Valley-centered narratives. They interrogate mainstream platform 
studies' assumptions and position 'platform capitalism' within the 
extension and convergence of long-term tendencies in the history of 
global capitalism and in diverse local social and cultural contexts. 
This 'politics of imagining Asia' has become increasingly contested 
recently with a surge in Anti-Asian sentiments during the Covid-19 
pandemic and the intensification of a 'new Cold War' centered around the 
US and China. Digital platforms and technologies are at the center of 
these confrontations: from supply chain disruption and restructuring, 
inter-regional flows of capital, goods, technologies, and labor, new 
restrictions of foreign capital and businesses, to discursive battles 
over racism and xenophobia, and debates about different models of 
political governance and economic development. This panel aims to 
facilitate productive discussions and dialogue for scholars working at 
the intersection of platform studies and Asian studies. What could we 
gain by rethinking platform studies in and with Asia? How could our 
engagement with platforms help advance Asian studies at the new conjuncture?

To submit *YOUR ABSTRACT,* please go to: 
https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php 
<https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php>, click “SUBMIT AN 
OPEN PANEL/INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACT”, select “Submit New Paper”, sign-in or 
continue without logging in, and select our panel “Rethinking Platform 
Studies in and With Asia” from the open panel selection.


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