Susan Leong
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 652242 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan Leong |
| PRENOMES | Susan |
| SOBRENOME | Leong |
| ASSINATURA | LEONG S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6595-1470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The cultural power metric
The advent of new media technologies has changed how people watch, engage with, and share digital media. Conventionally, audiences were surveyed selectively, and the results were collated by professional agencies and often kept confidential. However, the conspicuous ratings given to media and cultural products outside their country of origin and their very public success and failure raises questions about the validity of such methods, particularl…
I Don’t Care About Asia”
This paper argues that an important part of the work that remains to be done in Asian Australian studies is at the frontline of academia—teaching. In a world of contrarily increasing mobility and cultural apathy, how do we convey the relevance of Asia to students without resorting to the discourses of Asia as the exotic other and/or as a market? In what ways can “Asia literacy” be interpreted for a student body whose identities are becoming both …
Why Transitions
Sinophone, Chinese, and prc Internet
Recently, while there have been some who advocate the notion of a Sinophone internet, approximately coterminous with a Chinese-literate user base (Sullivan & Chen 2015), others have argued the internet in China should be known as the Chinese internet (Yang 2015: 1). This paper extends from the call to specificity to ask how the suggestion of the Chinese internet might manifest itself and what it might mean for the Chinese overseas. This is specif…
Facades of diversity
This article focuses on urban space and heritage. Our aim is to understand how ordinary streets in Perth respond to urban change and how much these urban streets represent Western Australia's heritage. The intention is to eschew the dominant branding of WA as Australia's mining state and shift the spotlight so that in addition to the economic and material, light is also shed on the socio-cultural in the everyday and the vernacular. This project u…
A right and not a privilege
On October 30, 2013, the Appeals Court of Malaysia upheld the High Court ruling that the Home Minister cannot refuse online news portal, Malaysiakini’s, application for a permit to print without cause (2013c). In so doing, the court reconfirmed Judge Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim’s earlier judgment that the Home Ministry’s rejection of Malaysiakini’s application was not only “improper and irrational” but had also failed to grant the plaintiff “a fu…
Franchise nations
The objective of this article is to flesh out the theoretical framework of franchise nation first broached in 2009 as a means of understanding the three intersecting relationships between home nation and diaspora, host nation and diaspora, and home and host nations that surround the migrant condition. The term franchise nation seeks to encapsulate and critique the idea that the core elements of a nation’s culture can, like all franchises products…
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia
In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advancement improves their nation’s socio-economic conditions, they also worry about its cultural and political effects. This book examines how this set of …
No longer Singaporean
From communal politics and internet governance to language policies, the tiny speck that is Singapore is known for doing things its own way, with an innovative if patriarchal government kneading a hungry, migrant mass into one of the most well disciplined, efficient, and diligent working populations in Southeast Asia. Much has also been made of its success at multiculturalism though some, like sociologist Chua Beng Huat, argue it to be multiracia…
The question concerning (internet) time
Spatial representations, metaphors and imaginaries (cyberspace, web pages) have been the mainstay of internet research for a long time. Instead of repeating these themes, this article seeks to answer the question of how we might understand the concept of time in relation to internet research. After a brief excursus on the general history of the concept, this article proposes three different approaches to the conceptualization of internet time. Th…
Franchise nations
In this paper, I extend the notion of franchise nations, borrowed from Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel Snow Crash (1993), in order to employ it as a device for thinking about the future of the nation. I argue the concept to be particularly well suited for such contemplation because of its sound grounding in the historical intermesh of economic, political and cultural motivations intrinsic to the concept as well as lived experience of the nation…
The question concerning (internet) time
Spatial representations, metaphors and imaginaries (cyberspace, web pages) have been the mainstay of internet research for a long time. Instead of repeating these themes, this article seeks to answer the question of how we might understand the concept of time in relation to internet research. After a brief excursus on the general history of the concept, this article proposes three different approaches to the conceptualization of internet time. Th…
Why Transitions
I Don’t Care About Asia”
This paper argues that an important part of the work that remains to be done in Asian Australian studies is at the frontline of academia—teaching. In a world of contrarily increasing mobility and cultural apathy, how do we convey the relevance of Asia to students without resorting to the discourses of Asia as the exotic other and/or as a market? In what ways can “Asia literacy” be interpreted for a student body whose identities are becoming both …
No longer Singaporean
From communal politics and internet governance to language policies, the tiny speck that is Singapore is known for doing things its own way, with an innovative if patriarchal government kneading a hungry, migrant mass into one of the most well disciplined, efficient, and diligent working populations in Southeast Asia. Much has also been made of its success at multiculturalism though some, like sociologist Chua Beng Huat, argue it to be multiracia…
Franchise nations
In this paper, I extend the notion of franchise nations, borrowed from Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel Snow Crash (1993), in order to employ it as a device for thinking about the future of the nation. I argue the concept to be particularly well suited for such contemplation because of its sound grounding in the historical intermesh of economic, political and cultural motivations intrinsic to the concept as well as lived experience of the nation…
The question concerning (internet) time
Spatial representations, metaphors and imaginaries (cyberspace, web pages) have been the mainstay of internet research for a long time. Instead of repeating these themes, this article seeks to answer the question of how we might understand the concept of time in relation to internet research. After a brief excursus on the general history of the concept, this article proposes three different approaches to the conceptualization of internet time. Th…
Franchise nations
In this paper, I extend the notion of franchise nations, borrowed from Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel Snow Crash (1993), in order to employ it as a device for thinking about the future of the nation. I argue the concept to be particularly well suited for such contemplation because of its sound grounding in the historical intermesh of economic, political and cultural motivations intrinsic to the concept as well as lived experience of the nation…
No longer Singaporean
From communal politics and internet governance to language policies, the tiny speck that is Singapore is known for doing things its own way, with an innovative if patriarchal government kneading a hungry, migrant mass into one of the most well disciplined, efficient, and diligent working populations in Southeast Asia. Much has also been made of its success at multiculturalism though some, like sociologist Chua Beng Huat, argue it to be multiracia…
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia
In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advancement improves their nation’s socio-economic conditions, they also worry about its cultural and political effects. This book examines how this set of …
A right and not a privilege
On October 30, 2013, the Appeals Court of Malaysia upheld the High Court ruling that the Home Minister cannot refuse online news portal, Malaysiakini’s, application for a permit to print without cause (2013c). In so doing, the court reconfirmed Judge Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim’s earlier judgment that the Home Ministry’s rejection of Malaysiakini’s application was not only “improper and irrational” but had also failed to grant the plaintiff “a fu…
Franchise nations
The objective of this article is to flesh out the theoretical framework of franchise nation first broached in 2009 as a means of understanding the three intersecting relationships between home nation and diaspora, host nation and diaspora, and home and host nations that surround the migrant condition. The term franchise nation seeks to encapsulate and critique the idea that the core elements of a nation’s culture can, like all franchises products…
Sinophone, Chinese, and prc Internet
Recently, while there have been some who advocate the notion of a Sinophone internet, approximately coterminous with a Chinese-literate user base (Sullivan & Chen 2015), others have argued the internet in China should be known as the Chinese internet (Yang 2015: 1). This paper extends from the call to specificity to ask how the suggestion of the Chinese internet might manifest itself and what it might mean for the Chinese overseas. This is specif…
Facades of diversity
This article focuses on urban space and heritage. Our aim is to understand how ordinary streets in Perth respond to urban change and how much these urban streets represent Western Australia's heritage. The intention is to eschew the dominant branding of WA as Australia's mining state and shift the spotlight so that in addition to the economic and material, light is also shed on the socio-cultural in the everyday and the vernacular. This project u…
I Don’t Care About Asia”
This paper argues that an important part of the work that remains to be done in Asian Australian studies is at the frontline of academia—teaching. In a world of contrarily increasing mobility and cultural apathy, how do we convey the relevance of Asia to students without resorting to the discourses of Asia as the exotic other and/or as a market? In what ways can “Asia literacy” be interpreted for a student body whose identities are becoming both …
Why Transitions
The cultural power metric
The advent of new media technologies has changed how people watch, engage with, and share digital media. Conventionally, audiences were surveyed selectively, and the results were collated by professional agencies and often kept confidential. However, the conspicuous ratings given to media and cultural products outside their country of origin and their very public success and failure raises questions about the validity of such methods, particularl…
Sociology (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · China (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Media studies (4 obras) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (4 obras) · The Internet (4 obras)