Asia's civil spheres : New media, urban public space, social movements
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1160
Date de la conférence : 29 et 30 septembre 2011
Lieu : National University of Singapore
Date de réponse avant : 01 juin 2011
Sujet : Central questions include (but are not limited to):
-How do activisms and public space (online and offline) shape each other in diverse urban settings in Asia?
-How do shared meanings and social actions evolve, both independent of and in interaction with state and corporate actors?
-How do new forms of cyber-urban institutions and networks emerge, and how do these alter the meanings of urban spaces?
-To what extent do these institutions and social movements have the substance and impetus to sustain broader societal change?
-How can organically grown aspirations, initiatives, movements, and institutions inform and influence urban planning, policy, laws, and governance?
-How do the contested dialectics of cyburbanity create Asia's civil (and uncivil) spheres?