Article ID: CBB748114851

The Internet in Asia through Singapore: Essay (December 2018)

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The Internet or, as these authors argue, Internets (plural) in Asia are composed of cables and exchanges, protocols and firewalls, regulations and other legal devices, making them subject to investment and governance strategies, as well as treaties and court cases. But they are also composed of figures, layers, stories, and rumors. These latter descriptors provide a heuristic framework of social features that, together with metaphors from folklore, provide analytic tools for understanding the diversity, conflicts, competitions, and disengagements of the patchwork of Internet development across Asia. The authors further argue that Singapore provides an exceptionally valuable comparative site from which to explore these features. The first part of this article lays out some of the comparative features, and the second part turns to the four themes or heuristics of figures, layers, stories, and rumors, developed through an STS research cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Tembusu College, both at the National University of Singapore.

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Authors & Contributors
Manoj Vimal
Wairokpam Premi Devi
McGonigle, Ian
Catelijne Coopmans
Premchand Dommaraju
Lescure, Michel
Concepts
Essays
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Medicine
Biobanks
Mobility
Collections
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Singapore
East Asia
South Korea
Thailand
West Africa
Malay; Malaysia
Institutions
International Bioethics Committee (UNESCO)
Society for the History of Technology
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