Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social,
locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public
and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social
communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as
the media is ever-present. The Asia Pacific region has been pivotal
in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media
technologies and through social and mobile media we can see
emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by
the local.
The six case studies that inform this book Seoul, Tokyo,
Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne offer a range of
economic, socio-cultural, and linguistic differences, enabling the
authors to provide new insights into specific issues pertaining to
mobile media in each city. These include social, mobile and
locative media as a form of crisis management in post 3/11 Tokyo;
generational shifts in Shanghai; political discussion and the
shifting social fabric in Singapore; and the erosion of public and
private, and work and leisure paradigms in Melbourne. Through its
striking case studies, this book sheds new light on how the region
and its contested and multiple identities are evolving, and
concludes by revealing the impact of mobile media on how place is
shaped, as well as shaping, practices of mobility, intimacy and a
sense of belonging.
Employing comprehensive, cross-disciplinary frameworks from
theoretical approaches such as media sociology, ethnography,
cultural studies and media and communication studies,
"Online@AsiaPacific" will be of huge interest to students and
scholars of Asian culture and society, cybercultures, new media
studies, communication studies and internet studies.
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