<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Digital Media and Borders:
Infrastructures, Mobilities, and Practices across Asia and Beyond</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop<br>
7-9 December 2017<br>
Lingnan University, Hong Kong</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
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Invited speakers: Brett Neilson, Jack Qiu, Ned Rossiter, Nishant Shah, Ravi
Sundaram<br>
Workshop organizers: Rolien Hoyng, Iam-chong Ip, Lisa Leung, Yvonne Yau<br>
Sponsored by: Lingnan University and Kwan Fong Cultural Research and
Development Programme.<br>
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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?<br>
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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.<br>
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Topics include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital infrastructure, (extra)statecraft, urbanisms</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Local or global apps, platforms, and data-driven
governance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Speculative digital culture</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Uncivil” webs: hacking, porn, radical free speech,
trolling</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital media, citizenship, populism</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital media, migration, and belonging</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstracts of max. 500 words are due
by 15 July and should be sent to <a href="mailto:digitalmediaonsite@gmail.com">digitalmediaonsite@gmail.com</a>. 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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Event webpage: <a href="http://www.ln.edu.hk/ihss/crd/CFP2017.html" id="gmail-LPlnk611268"><span style="color:blue">http://www.ln.edu.hk/ihss/crd/CFP2017.html</span></a><br>
Inquiries: <a href="mailto:digitalmediaonsite@gmail.com"><span style="color:blue">digitalmediaonsite@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>
<br><p><br></p> <font face="Tahoma">My best,<br> <br> Rolien<br> <br> <font color="808080">Rolien Hoyng<br> Assistant Professor<br> Department of Cultural Studies<br> Lingnan University, Hong Kong</font></font></div>