光幻之墟

Asian Digital Cultures Conference
July 28-29, 2005
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei


Thursday, July 28

8:30am-9:00am Registration

9:00-9:15 Welcome – Teri Silvio

9:15-10:15 Opening Performance –
Allucquère Rosanne Stone, Department of Radio,
TV and FilmUniversity of Texas at Austin, US

10:15-10:30 Tea

10:30-12:30 Panel I – Digital Metaphysics
Christopher Bolton, Department of Japanese Studies, Williams College,US
Anime’s Haunted Battlefields

Gopalan Ravindran, Department of Communication,
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu, India
Self, Body, Language and Digital Identities: Readings from Indian Chat Rooms on the Net


12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:30 Panel II – Global Marriage Internet/works
Nicole Constable, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, US
Love at First Sight? Virtual Images and Virtual Encounters with Bodies

Yeong-Shyang Chen, Department of Tourism Management, Shih Chien University Kaohsiung Campus,Taiwan
Imaged Marriages in the Era of Information Societies: A Discursive Culture of Foreign Brides in Taiwan

3:30-4:00 Tea

4:00-6:00 Panel III – Internet Communities and Socialities

Lucifer Hung, writer, Taiwan
Blogging Queer Brotherhood:
A Deviant Approach to Butch/Tomboy Community on Taiwan Digital Milieu

Angel Lin, Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
TV Drama Fangroup Websites and Socialities on the Internet

7:00 Dinner – Activities Center



Friday, July 29

8:30-9:00am Tea

9:00-11:00 Panel IV – Aboriginal Internet
Chair Hu Taili, Insitute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

Wen-ling Lin, Department of Communication and Technology, National Chiatung University, Taiwan
Mapping Indigenous Territory in the World of Digitextuality

Cheng-liang Tsai, Department of Anthropology, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
Virtual Memory: A Case Study on Culture Change of an Amis Age Set on the Internet


11:00-11:30 Tea

11:30-12:30 Panel V – Text-Messaging

Raul Pertierra, Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Local Cosmopolitans in a Global World: Texting in the Philippines

Laura Miller, Department of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, US
Writing Gone Wild: Japanese Girls’ Orthographic Rebellion


12:30 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00-4:00 Round-Table Discussion