Mobile Media and Communication Practices in Southeast Asia
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
30 May 2017
13.00 - 18.00
PSH: 305
An inter-disciplinary workshop focused on ethnographic approaches to mobile media and communication practices in Southeast Asia.
The workshop aims to explore the value of situating locally and/or nationally contextualised research on mobile technologies and practices of social interaction, communication, coordination,
consumption, repair and use within a broader regional framework. The workshop proposes at the outset that a regional framing brings two distinct advantages. Firstly, it alerts us to the fact that mobile media and communication practices need to be understood
in relation to deep interconnections across nation-state borders, as manifested in the trajectories and cultural/economic ties of millions of migrants within the region, and in the development of more or less ‘neoliberalised’ telecommunication infrastructures.
Secondly, the region provides a valuable analytic frame for comparison that encourages critical perspectives to emerge from an exploration of convergent and divergent practices.
Everyone welcome and no need to register!
session 1
session 2
session 3
The seminar is part of a 12-month training and research exchange project on Mobile Media and Everyday Life in Southeast Asia funded by the British Academy Newton Mobility scheme and conducted
in partnership between the Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group and the Centre for Contemporary Social and Cultural Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok.