[url] seminar - Saturday May 29

[Anna Greenspan]

Seminar, Laboratory on Urban Research, http://urbanresearchlab.net/

Presenter: Marcella Szablewicz
Date: Saturday 29 May, 2010
Time: 2-4pm
Venue: Xindanwei, 4C, Bld 4 in Shanghai Hub No. 727 Dingxi Lu, Changning,
http://xindanwei.com

Title: China’s Many Internets: Participation and Sites of Digital Game Play
Across a Changing Technology Landscape

Abstract:
Silvia Lindtner and Marcella Szablewicz have conducted ethnographic
research on digital gaming practices in urban China over the last 6
years. Digital games are not only inherently participatory but are also
one of the most popular forms of Internet technology in China today, and
as such they are particularly illustrative examples of relations between
technological practice and social and economic change in China more
broadly. Lindtner and Szablewicz's research reveals how urban youths and
young professionals in China utilize digital games to position themselves
and form new identities amidst urban China’s rapid economic and
technological transformations. Two main points emerge: First, digital
participation is not confined within a single software application, but
is a contingent process evolving in relation to wider social, economic
and political developments in China. Second, digital games in China are a
means by which young Chinese engage with and express ideas about social
belonging, identity and class.

Bio:
Marcella Szablewicz is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Language,
Literature and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is
spending the year in Shanghai on a U.S. Fulbright Fellow and is working as a
visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.


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