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Title:

We All Know Karate: Asian Identity in the Online Age

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Organizer:
Lia Bulaong, lia.bulaong.com
Description:
Asians are well-represented in technology and media, but mostly only behind the scenes. Panelists will discuss the pluses and minuses of life as a very public Asian face online, and how the internet at large deals with Asian identity.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is your definition of Asianness?
  2. How do you choose to present yourself?
  3. How does being Asian affect how you deal with the internet?
  4. How do you separate your private and public identities online, if you do?
  5. How does being Asian affect how the internet deals with you?
  6. What stereotypes, if any, have you encountered? (good at math, knows karate, is submissive, etc)
  7. How do you deal with racist trolls?
  8. How do you deal with other Asians who feel like you aren't representing an ideal view of Asianness?
  9. Do you feel like you have an obligation to represent at all?
  10. How has Asian identity online changed in the last ten years, and where do you see it in the future?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Blogging, Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Community / Online Community, Journalism 2.0, Social Issues
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Jeremy Gillick
on 17/8/09
Am I Asian enough to attend this session?
lia bulaong
on 17/8/09
Jeremy: Sure! I mean for this to be a discussion started by Asians about our Asianness, but really, it will be a panel that all attending can take something interesting from afterward, regardless of their ethnicity. I'm inviting an awesome group of people to speak so that we can have a discussion that will make everyone slightly uncomfortable (even me!) and challenge their assumptions about race while also being very funny.

Speakers so far: Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot magazine & Ernie Hsiung of Little Yellow Different and 8Asians.com.
Heidi Gutierrez
on 19/8/09
My recommendations:

Cia Bernales, of the now-defunct generationrice.com, a magazine for and about Asians in America in the 90s-early 2000s. She now runs a food/travel blog called writingwithmymouthfull.com

Glenda Bautista, of agendacide.com, http://glenda.be/ and a SXSWi alumnus. I think she needs no further introduction/description from little ol' me. :)
U. Angie Hwang
on 26/8/09
Kimchi Mama (kimchimamas.typepad.com) here . . . I'd like to get in on this panel. (I live in San Antonio, about an hour from Austin.) How do I get on?! =P
Jane Pinckard
on 26/8/09
@Jeremy you can be what I like to term "Asian By Choice" - it's a new demographic! ;)
lia bulaong
on 26/8/09
Speaker addition: Jane Pinckard of Game Girl Advance!

Thanks for the suggestions, Heidi, Angie and everyone else that's gotten in touch with me. Please keep them coming!
Maria Ly
on 28/8/09
How about http://www.soompi.com - Asian pop for the masses.

It's one of the biggest Asian American sites out there and co-founded by two incredible Asian American women, Joyce Kim and Susan Kang - sweet! Joyce used to host the Gigaom Show.
Anne Hong
on 4/9/09
I think this would be interesting. I'd be down for this.
mbt shoes
on 1/12/09
Sounds like it will be a very interactive panel... like the style.
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