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• Title: Unsettled Post-Revolutionaries in the Online Public Sphere (Lao People's Democratic Republic ) (Report)
• Author : SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 264 KB

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Introduction: Into Cyberspace "One day, we'll make it!", exclaims the website of a Lao students association in Australia below a picture of a cosmonaut with a Lao flag on his shoulder. (1) Laos has not made it into space, but it is making its very own cyberspace. Students abroad have opened a series of websites in Australia, East Asia, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere promoting Laos in new worldly ways. They stand alongside older, more politically charged websites in the diaspora and a growing number of official Lao Government websites. Online debates over how the government should "open the door" to the world and exiled communities abroad typically separate lao nai, (2) "Lao (living) inside" Laos and lao nok, "Lao (living) outside", a virtual extension of the political divisions of the recent past, which saw a Westernized urban elite flee abroad after the Communist revolution in 1975. Expressions such as "One day, we'll make it", however, reflect a contemporary, third stream of ideas about Laos that differs from the division between the bitter anti-communist rhetoric of the old exiled elite and the revolutionary propaganda of the new regime. In this new stream, people share dreams of a worldly Laos not confined to the narrow field of ideas that have come to define the revolutionary state.

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