"Mobile Cultures "provides much-needed, empirically grounded
studies of the connections between new media technologies, the
globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The
availability and use of new media--fax machines, mobile phones, the
Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, and global
television--have grown exponentially in Asia over the past decade.
This explosion of information technology has sparked a revolution,
transforming lives and lifestyles, enabling the creation of
communities and the expression of sexual identities in a region
notorious for the regulation of both information and sexual
conduct. Whether looking at the hanging of toy cartoon characters
like "Hello Kitty" from mobile phones to signify queer identity in
Japan or at the development of queer identities in Indonesia or
Singapore, the essays collected here emphasize the enormous
variance in the appeal and uses of new media from one locale to
another.
Scholars, artists, and activists from a range of countries, the
contributors chronicle the different ways new media galvanize Asian
queer communities in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia,
Thailand, Malaysia, India, and around the world. They consider
phenomena such as the uses of the Internet among gay, lesbian, or
queer individuals in Taiwan and South Korea; the international
popularization of Japanese queer pop culture products such as Yaoi
manga; and a Thai website's reading of a scientific tract on gay
genetics in light of Buddhist beliefs. Essays also explore the
politically subversive possibilities opened up by the proliferation
of media technologies, examining, for instance, the use of
Cyberjaya--Malaysia's government-backed online portal--to form
online communities in the face of strict antigay laws.
"Contributors. "Chris Berry, Tom Boellstorff, Larissa Hjorth,
Katrien Jacobs, Olivia Khoo, Fran Martin, Mark McLelland, David
Mullaly, Baden Offord, Sandip Roy, Veruska Sabucco, Audrey Yue
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