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1. Social imaginaries -- 2. The nation, race and religion -- 3. Nation and internet -- 4. Malaysia and new media : the Multimedia Super Corridor -- 5. Users and non-users in the Malaysian social imaginary -- 6. The internet and Malaysia : new configurations?

"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 these set of dynamics operate through its study of new media in contemporary Malaysian society. Using the social imaginary framework and adopting a socio-historical approach, the book explains the varied understandings of new media as a continuing process wherein individuals and their societies operate in tandem to create, negotiate and enact the meaning ascribed to concepts and ideas. In doing so, it also highlights the place of non-users in national technological policies. Through its examination of the ideation and development of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor mega project to-date and reference to the seminal socio-political events of 2007-2012 including the 2008 General Elections, Bersih and Hindraf rallies, this book provides a clear explanation for new media's prominence in the multi-ethnic and majority Islamic society of Malaysia today"--

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 specifically in light of the multiplicity and heterogeneity of the Chinese diaspora in Australia, where many individuals of Chinese ancestry may or may not speak, read, or understandPutonghua(i.e. Mandarin). Rather than the Chinese internet, this paper proposes that we think of the People's Republic of China (prc) internet as one component of the multiple internets.

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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 and services, be replicated to order. I contend such a framework to be necessary because current approaches tend to emphasize certain aspects of migration dynamics at the expense of others. In what follows, I explain why this is so and what the franchise nation frameworks add to the analysis of Chinese migration that would otherwise be absent. Instead of dyadic understandings of the relationship between diaspora and nations that explain diasporic connectivity variously as long-distance nationalism, state-led transnationalism or domestic abroad transnationalism, the franchise nation framework is premised on a triadic relationship between diaspora, home and host nation. Starting with the example of Mainland Chinese provisional business migrants (PBMs), the article explains what the franchise nation framework brings to the investigation of the ways in which their everyday connections via Chinese social media inflect their experience of multiple belongings in Australia. The three arms of franchise nation triad in this instance consist of: the business migration policy that connects the Chinese PBMs to Australia; the diaspora engagement strategies with which China reaches out to the Chinese PBM diaspora; and the soft power policy that China employs in its dealings with other nations like Australia. The aim here is to argue for a change in how the study of migration is approached, shifting from a dyadic to a triadic framework.

Starting with the incident now known as the cow's head protest, this article traces and unpacks the events, techniques, and conditions surrounding the representation of ethno-religious minorities in Malaysia. The author suggests that the Malaysian Indians' struggle to correct the dominant reading of their community as an impoverished and humbled underclass is a disruption of the dominant cultural order in Malaysia. The struggle is also among the key events to have set in motion a set of dynamics - the visual turn - introduced by new media into the politics of ethno-communal representation in Malaysia. Believing that this situation requires urgent examination the author attempts to outline the problematics of the task. (Crit Asian Stud/GIGA)

"What is the impact of precariousness on the quality of life and human agency? Precariousness has become an inescapable condition in the everyday lives of people around the world. Living with Precariousness explores the lived effects and affects of precariousness through critical dialogue surrounding states of vulnerability, instability and uncertainty that manifest in the current social, economic and political climate worldwide. A range of timely international case studies explore precarious existences - individually, collectively, structurally, as well as through space and the body. These range from the plight of refugees, to the 'tiny house movement' as a response to unaffordable housing; from the exploitative practices of modern slavery, to the daily vulnerabilities of living with a chronic disease. This book illustrates how pervasive the effects of precariousness are, ranging from a variety of everyday uncertainties that impact on the individual, as well as national crises that have destabilising global impacts"--

Chapter 1. Introduction - A Pair of Governance Models or More? -- Chapter 2. The Internet in Malaysia (1990-2008): Visions of Technological Splendour -- Chapter 3. The Internet in Singapore: From 'Intelligent island' to 'Smart Nation' -- Chapter 4. Internet Governance - the Malaysia Way -- Chapter 5. Internet Governance: Singapore's Regulatory Influence -- Chapter 6. Towards a Hybrid Understanding of Internet Governance: Some Concluding Thoughts.

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Transnational Student-Migrants and the State: The Education-Migration Nexus, Shanthi Robertson (2013) Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781137267078, h/bk, £61
Insider Research on Migration and Mobility, Lejla Voloder and Liudmilia Kirpitchenko (eds) (2014) Surrey: Ashgate, 220 pp. ISBN: 9781409463214, h/bk, £54

AbstractCovered Interest Parity (CIP) holds in the 90 and 180 forward market for the AUD/USD spot exchange rate provided fully modified least absolute deviation model (FM‐LAD) procedures are applied to daily data for the period from December 2, 1985 to December 29, 2000. CIP fails if corrected ordinary least squares (OLS) and fully modified OLS (FM‐OLS) procedures are applied. However, UIP fails in both markets on early data: December 2, 1985 to December 31, 1991, but holds in the 90‐day market in a later subperiod: January 2, 1992 to December 29, 2000 FM. UIP is modified (M) to accommodate a potential risk premium. The MUIP model does not provide strong evidence suggesting the presence of a time‐varying risk premium (TRP).

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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 uses Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis approach to explore a contrapuntal reading of heritage that disrupts the deserving, dominant and fixed histories of High Road in Willetton and High Street in Fremantle. Amid the tides of migration, commerce, and cultures, heritage facades on High Street Fremantle appear singular and fixed, whereas multiple cultures have been extracted for sale on High Road. Superficially High Road seems diverse, but the overarching impulse across both sites is commerce – 'Business as usual' reigns.

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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. The common thread underlying all the approaches is the notion of time as an assemblage of elements such as technical artefacts, social relations and metaphors. By drawing out time in this way, the article addresses the challenge of thinking of internet time as coexistence, a clash of fluxes, metaphors, lived experiences and assemblages. In other words, this article proposes a way to articulate internet time as a multiplicity.