Media in Asia

This book explores the dynamic and complex place of the media in Asia currently in confrontation with remarkable social change and transition and the need to understand this emerging phenomenon as it intersects with the media.

Auteur

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005), Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (Routledge, 2008), Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (Routledge, 2011), Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self (2012), The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (Routledge, 2013), Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society (Routledge, 2016), Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media (Routledge, 2017), South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea (Routledge, 2019) and The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama (Routledge, 2021).

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

Introduction: Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered, Mobile Asia

Youna Kim

**Part 1: Global Asia

**1. Netflix, the Digital West in Asia: New Models, Challenges and Collaborations

Anthony Fung and Georgia Chik

2. The Shifting Terrain of Asia's Television Landscape

Kalyani Chadha and Anandam Kavoori

3. Post-Bollywoodization: The Rise of Individualized Entertainment in India

Shanti Kumar

4. Media Capital and Digital Media Cities in Asia

Xin Gu

5. Soft Power and Cultural Nationalism: Globalization of the Korean Wave

Youna Kim

6. Border Crossing and the Question of Transgressive Openness

Koichi Iwabuchi

Part 2: Digital Asia

7. Transnational Popular Culture and Imagination in the Digital Age

Fabienne Darling-Wolf

8. Asian Celebrity Capital in Digital Media Networks: Scandal, Body Politics and Nationalism

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau

9. Digital Activism and Public Protest in India: Contextualizing Technologies and Cyber-Mobilization

Ramaswami Harindranath

10. NGO2.0, Nonconfrontational Activism and the Future Village Initiative

Jing Wang

11. From Digital Literacy to Digital Citizenship: **Policies, Assessment Frameworks and Programmes for Young People in the Asia Pacific

Audrey Yue

12. Food and Digital Lifestyles in Asia: From MasterChef to Mukbang

Tania Lewis and Haiqing Yu

Part 3: Gendered Asia

13. Choosing the Right Love: Online Dating Platforms and Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia

Joanne Lim

14. "Queer" Media in Inter-Asia: Thinking Gender and Sexuality Transnationally

Michelle H. S. Ho

15. Crippled Warriors: Masculinities and Martial Arts Media in Asia

Luke White

16. Feminist Loitering in the City: Transmedia Practice and Imagination

Nadja-Christina Schneider

17. Domestic Workers and Immobile Mobility via WeChat: **Performative Motherhood and Modernity in Beijing

Cara Wallis

18. Necropolitical Gender Politics: Parasite's Figuring of Women's Sacrificial Disposability

Kent A. Ono

**Part 4: Mobile Asia

*19. Bipolar America: Anti-Asian versus Hollywood's *Minari

Sheng-Mei Ma

20. Capital on the Move: Quantico, Im/mobile Laboring Bodies and the Hypermediation of Racial Difference

Purnima Mankekar

21. Digital Media and Diasporic Nationalism: Japanese Migrant Women in London

Yuiko Fujita and Kaoru Takahashi

22. Glocal Intimacies, Digital Media and the Transnational Lives of Elite Filipino Migrants during a Global Pandemic

Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco

23. Reconstituting Sexuality and Home in a Platform Age: Asian Australian and Asian New Zealand LGBTQ Web Series

Olivia Khoo

24. Citizenship, Nationalism and the Politics of Multiculturalism: Digital Networks of Indian Diasporas in Germany

Jayana Jain