Malavika Jayaram (@maljayaram) 's Twitter Profile
Malavika Jayaram

@maljayaram

Executive Director @digitalasiahub, Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard. Privacy, identity, data, ethics, law, tech, Asia, culture, travel. Not the actress.

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linkhttps://www.digitalasiahub.org/about-us/our-team/ calendar_today01-09-2011 23:56:15

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Malavika Jayaram (@maljayaram) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kicking off in 90 minutes on a beautiful Chiang Mai morning. Can’t wait to watch our agenda come to life, and to engage with this amazing community of scholars. We’re so honoured to host the 20th anniversary of this event. #CIRC2023

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Absolute legend ⁦Jack Qiu⁩ walking us through the prehistory of #CIRC2023. Great to hear about 20 years of scholarship, community, and curiosity. #china #internet #digital

Absolute legend ⁦<a href="/jacklqiu/">Jack Qiu</a>⁩ walking us through the prehistory of #CIRC2023. Great to hear about 20 years of scholarship, community, and curiosity. #china #internet #digital
Malavika Jayaram (@maljayaram) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Keynote speaker ⁦Ivan Franceschini⁩ describing “compound capitalism” and new forms of modern slavery and humanitarian crises created by the scamdemic in Asia. #CIRC2023

Keynote speaker ⁦<a href="/FangYiren/">Ivan Franceschini</a>⁩ describing “compound capitalism” and new forms of modern slavery and humanitarian crises created by the scamdemic in Asia. #CIRC2023
Florian Schneider (@schneiderfa77) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I love how Jack Qiu is updating van Dijk's metaphor of the digital #platform 'tree' (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…) by conceptualizing Chinese distributed platform models as #Banyan trees, with extended root systems above and below ground (nca.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…). #CIRC2023

Florian Schneider (@schneiderfa77) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shame I won't be able to catch up w/ Lianrui Jia at #CIRC2023 in person, but good to see her zoom presentation on the 'Geographies of the Financialized Chinese Platform Economy'. Particularly intriguing: how the platform economy is turning uncertainty into a monetizable resource.

Shame I won't be able to catch up w/ <a href="/LRJia/">Lianrui Jia</a> at #CIRC2023 in person, but good to see her zoom presentation on the 'Geographies of the Financialized Chinese Platform Economy'. Particularly intriguing: how the platform economy is turning uncertainty into a monetizable resource.
giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The US is the cultural high ground. African people might see what kind of tech US people are using, but US people might never see what product that African people are using". Why Chinese companies switched to localisation and "deep ploughing" #CIRC2023

"The US is the cultural high ground. African people might see what kind of tech US people are using, but US people might never see what product that African people are using". Why Chinese companies switched to localisation and "deep ploughing" #CIRC2023
giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Western tech giants are key enablers China's outbound tech investment". Refreshing to have an event on China's role in the Global South that takes the US vs China dichotomy as an outdated/non helpful framing by default #CIRC2023 Thanks Malavika Jayaram

"Western tech giants are key enablers China's outbound tech investment". Refreshing to have an event on China's role in the Global South that takes the US vs China dichotomy as an outdated/non helpful framing by default #CIRC2023 Thanks <a href="/MalJayaram/">Malavika Jayaram</a>
Florian Schneider (@schneiderfa77) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm very much enjoying Suruchi Mazumdar's research on how #TikTok became a 'low technology' in #India, deployed by working-class and migrant users for self-deprecating social commentary, and then maligned by middle-classes as the 'lowest caste' version of social media. #circ2023

I'm very much enjoying <a href="/MazumdarSuruchi/">Suruchi Mazumdar</a>'s research on how #TikTok became a 'low technology' in #India, deployed by working-class and migrant users for self-deprecating social commentary, and then maligned by middle-classes as the 'lowest caste' version of social media. #circ2023
Suruchi Mazumdar (@mazumdarsuruchi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fascinating talk by Pirongrong Ramasoota, Commissioner, Thai National Broadcasting & Telecom, on the diverse possibilities of TikTok: shopping/ fan videos circulating pop Thai series, as well as acting as the recruitment platform by Thai police #circ2023 #digitalasiahub

Fascinating talk by Pirongrong Ramasoota, Commissioner, Thai National Broadcasting &amp; Telecom, on the diverse possibilities of TikTok: shopping/ fan videos circulating pop Thai series, as well as acting as the recruitment platform by Thai police #circ2023 #digitalasiahub
Min Jiang (@mindyjiang) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Next panel “Globally Chinese Platforms” examines TikTok, Nanning as borderland, Chinese fin-tech firms in SE Asia, and computational analysis of several music platforms. #CIRC2023

Next panel “Globally Chinese Platforms” examines TikTok, Nanning as borderland, Chinese fin-tech firms in SE Asia, and computational analysis of several music platforms.

#CIRC2023
Florian Schneider (@schneiderfa77) 's Twitter Profile Photo

That was a fun discussion, with loads of exciting empirical results from Africa and the Middle East that further confirms what we've also found LeidenAsiaCentre: that local actors leverage #China's investment into e.g. the 'Digital Silk Road' to their own local advantages. #circ2023

Malavika Jayaram (@maljayaram) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Not a PPT. That’s the beautiful Chiang Mai University campus providing a backdrop for the rare presenter without slides. ⁦Adam Arvidsson⁩ #CIRC2023

Not a PPT. That’s the beautiful Chiang Mai University campus providing a backdrop for the rare presenter without slides. ⁦<a href="/adamerica70/">Adam Arvidsson</a>⁩ #CIRC2023
giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Usually, social networks are killed off by something exogenous... Twitter went out and bought Chekhov’s gun in the first act and use it to shoot itself in the foot in the third act" eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/…

Suruchi Mazumdar (@mazumdarsuruchi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

V glad to be part of and have presented my research at #circ2023 in scenic Chiang Mai! Learnt from amazing panels on Chinese tech platforms in the #GlobalSouth ! Thanks to hosts #digitalasiahub and Chiang Mai U for the generosity unthinkable at big conf in the global North!

V glad to be part of and have presented my research at #circ2023 in scenic Chiang Mai! Learnt from amazing panels on Chinese tech platforms in the #GlobalSouth ! Thanks to hosts #digitalasiahub and Chiang Mai U for the generosity unthinkable at big conf in the global North!
Malavika Jayaram (@maljayaram) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#APF23 PSA: If you find yourself in a room with robotic arms and 3D printers, you just might be at this event, not - surprisingly ⁩- the #Asia #Privacy Forum around the corner. ⁦@PrivacyPros⁩ #Singapore

#APF23 PSA: If you find yourself in a room with robotic arms and 3D printers, you just might be at this event, not - surprisingly ⁩- the #Asia #Privacy Forum around the corner. ⁦@PrivacyPros⁩ #Singapore
Malavika Jayaram (@maljayaram) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Depressingly true of small, mission driven orgs and the larger, better resourced orgs that rely on extraction and appropriation rather than fair pay and respect.