Digital Asia Hub hosted the 20th anniversary instance of the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), a global network for emerging and senior academics studying digital life in China. This year, the Hub took on the mantle as CIRC organiser, partnering with The Faculty of Mass Communication at Chiang Mai University as local hosts. The focus was on the Chinese[…]
The Digital Asia Hub in collaboration with Ranking Digital Rights, Open Culture Foundation and Open Net Korea organised a series of events at the Digital Rights Assembly Asia-Pacific held in Chiang Mai between 22 – 26 May. At the panel discussion “Adapting global standards to local contexts: Uncovering the policies and practices of digital platforms[…]
Dev Lewis, Program Lead at DAH, shared a talk “New (Old) philosophies to Imagine Alternate Futures for Work and Play“. The talk, which was developed as an output of the Hub’s Future(s) of Work and Play initiative, centered around a speculative Play future made possible with values and practises from Daoism, Buddhism, and Advaita Vedanta.
Between the 4th to the 20th of April, 2023, we hosted a three-week workshop as part of our ongoing Platform Futures engagement. Drawing on key insights from the roundtables hosted in 2022-2023 we translated this into a program for scholars and practitioners to deepen their expertise and knowledge on platform governance issues in the APAC[…]