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" Kampoeng Cyber: "
Tremblay, Jessika
Li, Tania
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1105767
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TLpq2323127667
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| Main Entry
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Li, Tania
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Tremblay, Jessika
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Kampoeng Cyber:\ Tremblay, JessikaLi, Tania
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University of Toronto (Canada)
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2019
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2019
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Ph.D.
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327
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| Abstract
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This dissertation based primarily on ethnographic data obtained from research conducted in Yogyagarta, Indonesia between 2012 and 2014, explores the community development practices of a low-income Javanese neighborhood (or kampung). This neighborhood, known locally as “Kampoeng Cyber,” initiated a grassroots internet-access project in 2008 to provide low-cost high-speed internet to most of its 150 or so residents. Through practices of narrative performance, informal branding, and online identity construction, the residents of Kampoeng Cyber have attracted local, national, and international attention (and modest sponsorship from various donors) for their community-based development efforts to improve neighborhood internet connectivity and literacy. The thesis argues that despite Kampoeng Cyber’s seemingly novel and unique approach to self-initiated development, the community’s practices represent both continuity with past Javanese practices of cultural expression, and an evolving shift in Indonesian development discourse and orientation over recent decades. This transition involved a broad (though incomplete) reorientation from top-down state-controlled programs that dominated during the New Order period under President Suharto (1966-1998), toward a model of community-empowerment and grassroots development. In the gap left behind by large-scale programs that have failed to connect most of Indonesia’s population to the internet, some communities have begun to find their own solutions to the digital divide—solutions which find close parallels with international development rhetoric centered on community access to information and communications technology. Overall, the dissertation traces the practices that result in alignments between small-scale community and international development discourse.
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Cultural anthropology
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