Zoom What do we talk about when we talk about the Chinese Digital Silk Road? Lecture
Dr. Elisa Oreglia, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Global Digital Cultures at King’s College London and an Affiliate of the Lau China Institute, will discuss China’s “Digital Silk Road” investing in the digital economy development in the developing countries as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. Dr. Oreglia is the Principle Investigator of the European Research Council-funded project “The Digital Silk Road: A Mixed-methods Exploration of China’s Digital Investments in Its Borderland Regions” , focusing on Kazakhstan, Myanmar and Cambodia.
Dr. Elisa Oreglia is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Global Digital Cultures at King’s College London and an Affiliate of the Lau China Institute. She researches the adoption, adaptation and use of digital technologies among different communities in Asia, and in the Global South in general. She is interested in the localized socio-technical practices that emerge from technology users who are far from urban centres and advanced economies, as well as the political economy that surrounds technology development and circulation. She has researched digital lives and policies in China and Southeast Asia for the past 15 years, first looking at mobile phone use in Shandong and Hebei villages, then at the early wave of digital technologies in Myanmar and at social media and daily lives among factory workers in Cambodia. She is the Principle Investigator of the European Research Council-funded project “The Digital Silk Road: A Mixed-methods Exploration of China’s Digital Investments in Its Borderland Regions”, focusing on Kazakhstan, Myanmar and Cambodia.