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Emma Baulch is an Associate Professor at Monash University Malaysia, where she serves as the Director of the Southeast Asia Research Centre for Digital Technology and Society (SEADS). She completed her PhD at Monash University, Australia, and has held post-doctoral positions at Leiden University, the Australian National University, and the Queensland University of Technology. Since 2018, she has been focusing her research on media and popular culture through a cultural studies lens, particularly examining the interrelation of media technologies and societies in Indonesia and Malaysia. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed the role of electric guitars in shaping communities of amateur musicians in Bali during the late 1990s, published in the book 'Making Scenes: Death Metal, Punk, and Reggae in 1990s Bali' by Duke University Press. Emma continues to explore how digital infrastructures impact everyday life in Southeast Asia and has authored and edited several significant works on popular music and digital media. Her research is ethnographic and investigates how new media technologies influence and alter existing social formations related to race, class, and ethnicity in the region.
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