Mobile media in the Asia-Pacific : gender and the art of being mobile / Larissa Hjorth
- Bib ID:
- 4540386
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hjorth, Larissa
- Description:
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- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2008
- xvii, 300 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780415438094
- 9780203889848
- Series:
- Asia.com.
- Summary:
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"The mobile phone has become a poignant symbol for post-modernity and the attendant modes of global mobility and immobility. Most notably, the icon of the mobile phone is most palpable in the Asia-Pacific in which a diversity of innovation and consumer practices - reflecting gender and locality - can be found. Through the lens of gendered mobile media, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific provides insight into this phenomenon by focusing on case studies in Japan, South Korea, China and Australia." "Utilising ethnographic research conducted in the Asia-Pacific over a six-year period, this book investigates the relationship between gender, technology and various forms of mobility and immobility in the region. This book outlines the emerging modes of gender performativity that make the Asia-Pacific so distinct to other regions globally."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction. The price of being mobile
- Pt. I. Mobile media societies
- 1. Locating the mobile: mobile communication and gender in the Asia-Pacific
- 2. Paradigms of mobility: conceptual tenors for studying mobility today
- 3. Beyond the 'new rich': consumption, production and gender in the region
- Pt. II. Mobile media cultures
- 4. Fast-forwarding to the present: the rise of customised mobile media in Tokyo
- 5. Engaging rings: the haendupon and intimate communities in Seoul
- 6. Nostalgic mobility: memory and the mobile phone in Hong Kong
- 7. Postal presence: persistence of the postal metaphor in Melbourne
- 8. Domesticating cartographies: gendered mobile media in the region
- Pt. III. Mobile media practices
- 9. Domesticating new media: a discussion on locating mobile media
- 10. The big bang: an example of mobile media as new media
- 11. On hold: reflections on mobile media in the Asia-Pacific.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [272]-292.
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- Copyright:
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