TY - BOOK ID - 442271 TI - Localizing the Internet PY - 2011 SN - 9780857451972 9780857451989 0857451979 0857451987 PB - New York Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Social change KW - Computer architecture. Operating systems KW - Malaysia KW - Internet KW - Social aspects KW - Aspect social KW - DARPA Internet KW - Internet (Computer network) KW - Wide area networks (Computer networks) KW - World Wide Web UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:442271 AB - At a critical time of democratic reform across many parts of Southeast Asia, Subang Jaya is regarded as Malaysia's electronic governance laboratory. The focus of the study is Subang Jaya's field of residential affairs, a digitally mediated social field in which residents, civil servants, politicians, online journalists and other social agents struggle over how the locality is to be governed at the dawn of the "Information Era." Drawing on the field theories of both Pierre Bourdieu and the Manchester School of political anthropology, this study challenges the unquestioned predominance of "netwo ER -