Comments on: MSD, Mobile Special District

By: jaz

jaz — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:18:25 +0000

i’ve actually thought about that approach but then decided to focus on china, korea, and japan - i’ll be looking at each of these countries indivually and together as a region. if there are some extended opportunities (and i hope there will be) it would be really interesting to do a comparative study with the case/s in australia, especially with transnationals.

By: mitchell porter

mitchell porter — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:08:32 +0000

Perhaps you could study the Internet and mobile-phone culture of East Asian *visitors* to Brisbane (tourists, students)? That is, their techno-socio-cultural practices while they’re here? (Or even those of Brazilians, the colonizers of Orkut, resident in Brisbane; if you want a really unusual focus.)

By: jaz

jaz — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:34:17 +0000

hi mitchell. yeah, definitely. i believe that brisbane has certain aspects (especially those of cultural nature) that are very unique to brisbane. in terms of my current research, though, i’m trying to take a tehno-social/techno-cultural approach, which involves both technological, social, and cultural efficacies/capitals. compared to other developed and some developing countries, australia, in general, doesn’t seem to have enough of these.

By: mitchell porter

mitchell porter — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:21:26 +0000

“Everywhere but here” - I’ve given some thought to this problem, i.e.: is there anything happening here that’s actually unique to Brisbane? Zoe Butt of the Queensland Art Gallery says we have the only art collection in the world with the theme of “Contemporary Asian Art”. Maybe there’s something there you can leverage.