Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Series: Routledge Handbooks
ISBN 978-1-315-77462-6 (online); 978-1-138-02600-1 (hbk)
Signature commbox: 300:70-General 2016
"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an everyday reality for young and old across Asia through smartphones and associated devices, boundaries between art, new media, and the everyday are transformed. This Handbook addresses the historical, social, cultural, political, philosophical, artistic and economic dimensions of the region's new media. Through an interdisciplinary revision of both "new media" and "Asia" the contributors provide new insights into the complex and contesting terrains of both notions." (Publisher description)
1 Intimate entanglements: new media in Asia / Larissa Hjorth and Olivia Khoo, 1
PART I. NEW MEDIA IN ASIA
2 What's "in"? Disaggregating Asia through new media actants / Ani Maitra and Rey Chow, 17
3 Migrant youth and new media in Asia / Lina Tao and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, 28
4 Neo-regionalism and neoliberal Asia / Leo T.S. Ching, 39
5 Mobilizing discontent: social media and networked activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake / Love Kindstrand, Keiko Nishimura and David H. Slater, 53
6 Bridging art, technology, and pop culture: some aspects of Japanese new media art today / Machiko Kusahara, 66
7 Struggling to stay relevant: the impact of the new media on Asia's cultural industries / Nissim Otmazgin, 80
PART II. NEW MEDIA CULTURES, POLITICS AND LITERACIES
8 The new media cultures of Chinese migrant workers / Sophie Ping Sun and Jack Linchuan Qiu, 93
9 Young people, new media and citizenship in Asia / Shobha Vadrevu, 105
10 New media, censorship and gender: using obscenity law to restrict online self-expression in Japan and China / Mark McLelland, 118
11 Materiality of an online community: everyday life of global sport fans in South Korea / Younghan Cho, 130
12 A new media movement and a new praxis @passiontimes.hk / Pui-lam Law, 141
13 A right and not a privilege: freedom of expression and new media in Malaysia / Susan Leong, 155
III. INTIMATE PUBLICS, SCREEN AND HAPTIC CULTURES
14 Chinese social media, "publicness" and one-party rule / Gloria Davies, 167
15 Complicating connectivity: women's negotiations with smartphones in an Indian slum / Jo Tacchi and Tripta Chandola, 179
16 The blended lives of young Chinese online / David Kurt Herold, 189
17 Lines for connectedness: a study of social media practices in Japanese families / Kana Ohashi and Fumitoshi Kato, 199
18 E/motion: mobility and intimacy / Helen Grace, 209
19 Locative social media engagement and intergenerational relationships in China / Baohua Zhou and Miao Xiao, 219
20 Short circuits of Southeast Asian cinema: Viddsee and the project of online social viewing / Olivia Khoo, 229
IV. MAPPING MOBILE, DIASPORIC AND QUEER ASIA
21 At the crossroads of change: new media and migration in Asia / Sun Sun Lim, Becky Pham and Kakit Cheong, 241
22 Digital kinships: intergenerational locative media in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne / Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, Baohua Zhou, Fumitoshi Kato, Genevieve Bell, Kana Ohashi, Chris Marmo and Miao Xiao, 251
23 Essential labels? Gender identity politics on Hong Kong lesbian mobile phone application Butterfly / Denise Tse-Shang Tang, 263
24 Queer mobiles and mobile queers: intersections, vectors, and movements in India / Nishant Shah, 275
25 Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves: screening human traffic and the logic of ebbing / Sean Metzger, 285
V. CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: NEW PRODUCERS, PERFORMATIVITY AND PRODUCTION PARADIGMS
26 TV or not TV? Re-imagining screen content in China / Michael Keane and Elaine Jing Zhao, 299
27 New media in Singapore's creative economy: the regulation of illiberal pragmatism / Audrey Yue, 308
28 Japanese creative industries in globalization / Shinji Oyama, 322
29 Globalization of the privatized self-image: the reaction video and its attention economy on YouTube / Yeran Kim, 333
30 Public broadcasting, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), and its online services / Hye-Kyung Leem, 343
31 The struggle between subaltern nationalisms and the nation-state in the digital age: China and its ethnic minorities / Kwai-Cheung Lo, 352
32 Mainland Chinese women's homo-erotic databases and the art of failure / Katrien Jacobs, 364
VI. MOBILE, PLAY AND GAME ECOLOGIES IN ASIA
33 Game industries in Asia: towards an Asian formation of game culture / Anthony Y.H. Fung and Vicky Ho, 377
34 Online games and society in China: an exploration of key issues and challenges / Matthew M. Chew, 391
35 The globalization of game art in Southeast Asia / Peichi Chung, 402
36 From a cottage to the symbol of creative industries: the evolution of Korea's online game industry / Dal Yong Jin, 416
37 Getting a life: expatriate uses of new media in Hong Kong / Meaghan Morris with Elaine Lally and Catherine Driscoll, 430
38 The everydayness of mobile media in Japan / Kyounghwa Yonnie Kim, 445
PART I. NEW MEDIA IN ASIA
2 What's "in"? Disaggregating Asia through new media actants / Ani Maitra and Rey Chow, 17
3 Migrant youth and new media in Asia / Lina Tao and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, 28
4 Neo-regionalism and neoliberal Asia / Leo T.S. Ching, 39
5 Mobilizing discontent: social media and networked activism since the Great East Japan Earthquake / Love Kindstrand, Keiko Nishimura and David H. Slater, 53
6 Bridging art, technology, and pop culture: some aspects of Japanese new media art today / Machiko Kusahara, 66
7 Struggling to stay relevant: the impact of the new media on Asia's cultural industries / Nissim Otmazgin, 80
PART II. NEW MEDIA CULTURES, POLITICS AND LITERACIES
8 The new media cultures of Chinese migrant workers / Sophie Ping Sun and Jack Linchuan Qiu, 93
9 Young people, new media and citizenship in Asia / Shobha Vadrevu, 105
10 New media, censorship and gender: using obscenity law to restrict online self-expression in Japan and China / Mark McLelland, 118
11 Materiality of an online community: everyday life of global sport fans in South Korea / Younghan Cho, 130
12 A new media movement and a new praxis @passiontimes.hk / Pui-lam Law, 141
13 A right and not a privilege: freedom of expression and new media in Malaysia / Susan Leong, 155
III. INTIMATE PUBLICS, SCREEN AND HAPTIC CULTURES
14 Chinese social media, "publicness" and one-party rule / Gloria Davies, 167
15 Complicating connectivity: women's negotiations with smartphones in an Indian slum / Jo Tacchi and Tripta Chandola, 179
16 The blended lives of young Chinese online / David Kurt Herold, 189
17 Lines for connectedness: a study of social media practices in Japanese families / Kana Ohashi and Fumitoshi Kato, 199
18 E/motion: mobility and intimacy / Helen Grace, 209
19 Locative social media engagement and intergenerational relationships in China / Baohua Zhou and Miao Xiao, 219
20 Short circuits of Southeast Asian cinema: Viddsee and the project of online social viewing / Olivia Khoo, 229
IV. MAPPING MOBILE, DIASPORIC AND QUEER ASIA
21 At the crossroads of change: new media and migration in Asia / Sun Sun Lim, Becky Pham and Kakit Cheong, 241
22 Digital kinships: intergenerational locative media in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne / Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, Baohua Zhou, Fumitoshi Kato, Genevieve Bell, Kana Ohashi, Chris Marmo and Miao Xiao, 251
23 Essential labels? Gender identity politics on Hong Kong lesbian mobile phone application Butterfly / Denise Tse-Shang Tang, 263
24 Queer mobiles and mobile queers: intersections, vectors, and movements in India / Nishant Shah, 275
25 Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves: screening human traffic and the logic of ebbing / Sean Metzger, 285
V. CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: NEW PRODUCERS, PERFORMATIVITY AND PRODUCTION PARADIGMS
26 TV or not TV? Re-imagining screen content in China / Michael Keane and Elaine Jing Zhao, 299
27 New media in Singapore's creative economy: the regulation of illiberal pragmatism / Audrey Yue, 308
28 Japanese creative industries in globalization / Shinji Oyama, 322
29 Globalization of the privatized self-image: the reaction video and its attention economy on YouTube / Yeran Kim, 333
30 Public broadcasting, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), and its online services / Hye-Kyung Leem, 343
31 The struggle between subaltern nationalisms and the nation-state in the digital age: China and its ethnic minorities / Kwai-Cheung Lo, 352
32 Mainland Chinese women's homo-erotic databases and the art of failure / Katrien Jacobs, 364
VI. MOBILE, PLAY AND GAME ECOLOGIES IN ASIA
33 Game industries in Asia: towards an Asian formation of game culture / Anthony Y.H. Fung and Vicky Ho, 377
34 Online games and society in China: an exploration of key issues and challenges / Matthew M. Chew, 391
35 The globalization of game art in Southeast Asia / Peichi Chung, 402
36 From a cottage to the symbol of creative industries: the evolution of Korea's online game industry / Dal Yong Jin, 416
37 Getting a life: expatriate uses of new media in Hong Kong / Meaghan Morris with Elaine Lally and Catherine Driscoll, 430
38 The everydayness of mobile media in Japan / Kyounghwa Yonnie Kim, 445
