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IT and the cITy
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Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2009
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last modified
Sep 18, 2009 10:45 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
internet and society,
Shanghai,
ICT4D,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities,
IT Cities
Nishant Shah tells ten stories of relationship between Internet Technologies and the City, drawing from his experiences of seven months in Shanghai. In this introduction to the city, he charts out first experiences of the physical spaces of Shanghai and how they reflect the IT ambitions and imaginations of the city. He takes us through the dizzying spaces of Shanghai to see how the architecture and the buildings of the city do not only house the ICT infrastructure but also embody it in their unfolding. In drawing the seductive nature of embodied technology in the physical experience of Shanghai, he also points out why certain questions about the rise of internet technologies and the reconfiguration of the Shanghai-Pudong area have never been asked. In this first post, he explains his methdologies that inform the framework which will produce the ten stories of technology and Shanghai, and how this new IT City, delivers its promise of invisibility.
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The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
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China's Generation Y : Youth and Technology in Shanghai
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 21, 2009
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last modified
Sep 21, 2009 02:09 PM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Social media,
Shanghai,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Digital Natives
Within the context of internet technologies in China, Nishant Shah, drawing from his seven month research in Shanghai, looks at the first embodiment of these technologies in the urbanising city. In this post, he gives a brief overview of the public and academic discourse around youth-technology usage of China's Generation Y digital natives. He draws the techno-narratives of euphoria and despair to show how technology studies has reduced technology to tools and usage and hence even the proponents of internet technologies, often do a disservice to the technology itself. He poses questions about the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of technology and offers the premise upon which structures of reading resistance can be built. The post ends with a preview of the three stories that are to appear next in the series, to see how youth engagement and cultural production can be read as having the potentials for social transformation and political participation for the Digital Natives in China.
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The Making of an Asian City
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 21, 2010
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last modified
Aug 10, 2012 08:33 AM
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filed under:
Shanghai,
Cybercultures,
Architecture,
Censorship,
Communities
Nishant Shah attended the conference on 'Pluralism in Asia: Asserting Transnational Identities, Politics, and Perspectives' organised by the Asia Scholarship Foundation, in Bangkok, where he presented the final paper based on his work in Shanghai. The paper, titled 'The Making of an Asian City', consolidates the different case studies and stories collected in this blog, in order to make a larger analyses about questions of cultural production, political interventions and the invisible processes that are a part of the IT Cities.
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