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Where the Spatial Turn Meets the Digital Turn<\/h2>\n

Where might we find \u2018Digital Asia\u2019? This article asks\u00a0how digital methods can provide a way to search for \u2018Digital Asia\u2019 in its networks, interfaces, and media contents. It\u00a0examines what\u00a0tools and\u00a0research methods are available for \u2018mapping\u2019 and \u2018exploring\u2019 digital\u00a0spaces, what their strengths and weaknesses might be, and how successful \u00a0they ultimately are at\u00a0offering insights into contemporary politics, society, and culture. Specifically, it asks what a research approach that ‘follows the medium’ can teach us about regional processes, for instance about the common\u00a0expectation that digital media facilitate transnational, regional cooperation.<\/p>\n

Using the example of higher education institutions in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei, the paper explores how search engines, institutional homepages, and hyperlink networks provide access into the workings and representations of academia online. The article finds that even a seemingly cosmopolitan endeavour such as academia exists in rather parochial spheres, and that users that enter those spheres do so in highly biased ways. Further reviewing the digital tools that lead to these findings, the article also argues that while digital methods promise to bring together the \u2018digital turn\u2019 and the \u2018spatial turn\u2019 in the humanities and social sciences, they also pose new challenges. These include theoretical concerns, like the risk of implicitly reproducing views of neoliberal modernity, but also practical concerns related to digital literacy.<\/p>\n

This research was made possible with the generous support of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)<\/a>, through a VENI\u00a0grant for the project \u2018Digital Nationalism in China<\/a>\u2019 (grant 016.134.054). The article is part of the\u00a02015 special issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia<\/a> that deals with the question: “Where is Digital Asia?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

How to reference this article<\/h3>\n

Schneider, Florian (2015), ‘Searching for “Digital Asia” in its Networks: Where the Spatial Turn Meets the Digital Turn<\/a>‘. Asiascape: Digital Asia<\/em>, 2(1-2), 57-92.<\/p>\n

The article is kindly made available here, on this personal website, by the publisher through its Green Publishing policy. It may not be re-posted to the web or digital repositories and may only be used for non-commercial purposes.<\/p>\n

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