Full Description
This book is an upper-level student source book for contemporary approaches to media studies in Asia, which will appeal across a wide range of social sciences and humanities subjects including media and communication studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and Asian studies, it provides an empirically rich and stimulating tour of key areas of study. The book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in one up-to-date and accessible volume, going beyond the standard Euro-American view of the evolving and complex dynamics of the media today.
Contents
Introduction: Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered, Mobile Asia Part 1: Global Asia 1. Netflix, the Digital West in Asia: New Models, Challenges and Collaborations 2. The Shifting Terrain of Asia's Television Landscape 3. Post-Bollywoodization: The Rise of Individualized Entertainment in India 4. Media Capital and Digital Media Cities in Asia 5. Soft Power and Cultural Nationalism: Globalization of the Korean Wave 6. Border Crossing and the Question of Transgressive Openness Part 2: Digital Asia 7. Transnational Popular Culture and Imagination in the Digital Age 8. Asian Celebrity Capital in Digital Media Networks: Scandal, Body Politics and Nationalism 9. Digital Activism and Public Protest in India: Contextualizing Technologies and Cyber-Mobilization 10. NGO2.0, Nonconfrontational Activism and the Future Village Initiative 11. From Digital Literacy to Digital Citizenship: Policies, Assessment Frameworks and Programmes for Young People in the Asia Pacific 12. Food and Digital Lifestyles in Asia: From MasterChef to Mukbang Part 3: Gendered Asia 13. Choosing the Right Love: Online Dating Platforms and Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia 14. "Queer" Media in Inter-Asia: Thinking Gender and Sexuality Transnationally 15. Crippled Warriors: Masculinities and Martial Arts Media in Asia 16. Feminist Loitering in the City: Transmedia Practice and Imagination 17. Domestic Workers and Immobile Mobility via WeChat: Performative Motherhood and Modernity in Beijing 18. Necropolitical Gender Politics: Parasite's Figuring of Women's Sacrificial Disposability Part 4: Mobile Asia 19. Bipolar America: Anti-Asian versus Hollywood's Minari 20. Capital on the Move: Quantico, Im/mobile Laboring Bodies and the Hypermediation of Racial Difference 21. Digital Media and Diasporic Nationalism: Japanese Migrant Women in London 22. Glocal Intimacies, Digital Media and the Transnational Lives of Elite Filipino Migrants during a Global Pandemic 23. Reconstituting Sexuality and Home in a Platform Age: Asian Australian and Asian New Zealand LGBTQ Web Series 24. Citizenship, Nationalism and the Politics of Multiculturalism: Digital Networks of Indian Diasporas in Germany
