Digital Peripheries

Month: April 2023

The Discourse of Banning PUBG in Indonesia: The Conversation Podcast Interview (2021)

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On April 24, 2023

In Asian studies, digital cultures, digital humanities/scholarship, indonesian digital culture, Podcast interview, project, video games

This video is from a podcast interview that I did for The Conversation Indonesia podcast show, SuarAkademia, in 2021. I was invited by Luthfi Dzulfikar, the producer of the podcast program, to discuss about the discourse of “fatwa haram” on video games like PUBG in Indonesia, which I personally think is ridiculous and historically clueless.

I gave my two cents about the long history of moral panic about video games, which usually revolves around the rising popularity of a new genre, or a new mechanic system (e.g. battle royale), and also briefly touched upon my current research on the early history of Indonesian video games culture. You can watch the full interview (in Indonesian) below, or listen to it here.

FLEFF Conversations Across Screen Cultures (2021)

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On April 14, 2023

In digital cultures, digital humanities/scholarship, Event, indonesian digital culture, video games

This one here is a video from the Conversations Across Screen Cultures event that’s part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) in 2021. I am very humbled and honored to be invited by the organizers of this event to talk about my personal trajectory as a scholar in global digital humanities. Big thanks again to the organizers of the event: Patty Zimmermann, Leah Shafer, Enrique González-Conty, and Jiangtao “Harry” Gu, as well as everyone who came to the event.

Hashtag Activism: A Conversation with Moya Bailey (2021)

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On April 11, 2023

In digital cultures, digital humanities/scholarship, Event, gender studies, social media

This one is a video from the Global Digital Humanities event in February 2021 that I moderated. Our guest speaker was Moya Bailey, co-author of the #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020). I really enjoyed moderating this event. Among other things, Moya and I discussed about the position of hashtag activism as a new form of digital activism, especially for people of color and people with disability, and the accusation of hashtag activism as a lazy form of activism, or what they called “slacktivism.” The video is “unlisted,” so it can only be watched directly on YouTube.

PSN Indonesia 2020 Keynote Session

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On April 9, 2023

In Event, Keynotes, punk and underground subcultures, youth culture

I just realized that I have several videos scattered on YouTube. So in the hope of archiving them, I am going to post them here.

This one here is from the keynote session of the Punk Scholars Network Indonesia 2020. I had a good experience in this session. Thanks William Anthony Yanko for moderating and Muhammad Fakhran Al Ramadhan for organizing the event!

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