Too quick or too slow? Unpacking digital temporalities in networked Vietnam

该项目旨在研究数字媒体如何塑造越南普通人的生活经历。它调查了在不考虑当地停滞不前的结构性改革的情况下推动数字未来的隐藏成本。该项目利用人种学研究，考察了在线小商贩、共享单车骑手、技术开发人员和指定高科技社区居民的生活，揭示了快节奏的数字技术、缓慢发展的基础设施变化和不可磨灭的社会文化历史是如何相互交织的。预期结果包括对东南亚数字文化的重要新知识，这将有利于澳大利亚在东南亚技术发展方面的援助的可持续性。

This project aims to study how digital media shape ordinary people’s lived experience of time in Vietnam. It investigates the hidden costs of promoting a digital future without accounting for stagnating structural reforms on the ground. Using ethnographic research, the project examines the lives of online petty traders, rideshare Grab bikers, tech developers, and residents in designated high-tech neighbourhoods to reveal how fast-paced digital technologies, slow-moving infrastructural change, and indelible sociocultural histories intersect. Expected outcomes include vital new knowledge of Southeast Asian digital cultures that will benefit the sustainability of Australian aid in technological development in Southeast Asia.