The Challenge of Studying Digital Asia
An Introduction to Asiascape: Digital Asia This blog-post first appeared on Asiascape.org. In August and September 2012, the Internet was awash with Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese discussions over a...
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Discourse Analysis and Foreign Languages
The Challenge of Working with East Asian Scripts To conduct a discourse analysis, it is absolutely essential to work with original language materials. It is not possible to properly uncover how...
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Asiascape Digital Asia (DIAS) Launch Event 24-25 January 2014 at Leiden University The academic journal Asiascape – Digital Asia (DIAS), in collaboration with the Goto-Jones VICI project “Beyond...
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Why Digital Humanities?
Art and critical thinking can start at the code The Dutch newspaper the “Green Amsterdammer” recently ran a special in which scholars in the arts and humanities discussed the challenges and changes in...
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The Mass-Media Logic behind China’s Internet Controls
How the Chinese government is applying 20th century thinking to 21st century technology One of the most popular technology myths to this day is that digital communication is difficult or even...
View ArticleDIAS Conference Programme
Asiascape: Digital Asia – Revisiting the Emancipatory Potential of Digital Media in Asia Venue: Leiden University, Lipsius Building (Room 147), Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden, The Netherlands. Do digital...
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The Digital Turn in Asian Studies
Review of the Asiascape: Digital Asia conference 2014 Like any interdisciplinary endeavour, studying digital communication in Asia can be challenging: not only does such work have to convince area...
View ArticleThe Politics of Digital Tools
What Decides How We Use Digital Media Technologies? On 27 November 2014, I had the pleasure to participate in a debate at Leiden University’s Leiden Global Day, together with Mirko Schäfer. This video...
View ArticleWhere Is Digital Asia?
Introduction to the Second Special Issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia During the launch conference for this journal in early 2014, our editorial team issued a provocation. We asked the participants of...
View ArticleSearching for Digital Asia in its Networks
Where the Spatial Turn Meets the Digital Turn Where might we find ‘Digital Asia’? This article asks how digital methods can provide a way to search for ‘Digital Asia’ in its networks, interfaces, and...
View ArticleDigital Play Special Issue
Introduction to the Third Special Issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia Following the 2015 call for papers on ‘The Dynamics of Digital Play in Asia‘, it is my pleasure to now see the contributions to our...
View ArticleStudying Digital China’s Networks and Media Objects
The promises and challenges of digital data Digital technologies are visibly ‘disrupting’ how our societies work (Owen 2015), and this also has profound implications for those of us studying Asia....
View ArticleChina’s Search Engines – How Do Interfaces and Algorithms Manage Access to...
A Discussion with Students at Leiden University For the vast majority of internet users, access to the web takes place either through social media platforms like Facebook or through search engines like...
View ArticleDigital Nationalism, Digital Territory
A Discussion with Students at Leiden University Much speculations has surrounded the future of nation-states. Challenged by neo-liberal globalization and by advanced information and communication...
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It’s Gone Viral!
Conceptualizing How People Communicate via Microblogs A graduate research post by Peng Wenxuan. Since the beginning of the digital age, every once in a while the public’s attention is drawn so...
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Call for Student Assistants
Social Media Use During the Umbrella and Sunflower Movements For the academic year 2017-2018, I am looking for two students who are interested in assisting me in research and administrative tasks...
View ArticlePlatform Power and the Risks of Digital Convenience
A Discussion with Students at Leiden University Our digital experiences are quickly becoming dominated by a small number of seemingly indispensable platforms. We share images on Instagram, connect...
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Call for Papers: Rethinking Communities in the Age of the Digital
The 3rd Asiascape: Digital Asia Conference – 29 May 2018 at Leiden University, the Netherlands Programme The full programme for DIAS 2018 is available online. Deadline for proposals 1 February 2018,...
View ArticleConference Calls and Events 2018
In May 2018, Leiden University will host a series of conferences and debates that deal with digital media and technological change in Asia. If you are interested in how the internet, smartphones, and...
View ArticleDigital Territories in East Asia
A Discussion with Students at Leiden University Over the past three months, our grad students here in the Leiden Asian Studies programme have been debating the many ways in which digital technologies...
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