Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies)

This book explores people’s everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization. The profusion of the media today, with new imaginations, new choices and contradictions, generates a critical condition for reflexivity engaging everyday people to have a resource for the learning of self, culture and society in a new light. Media culture is creating new connections, new desires and threats, and the identities of people are being reworked at individual, national, regional and global levels. Within historically specific social conditions and contexts of the everyday, the chapters seek to provide a diversity of experiences and understandings of the place of the media in different Asian locations. This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people’s everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia. Media Consumption And Everyday Life In Asia Considers The Emerging Consequences Of Media Consumption In People's Everyday Life At A Time When The Political, Socio-economic, And Cultural Forces By Which The Media Operate Are Rapidly Globalizing In Asia. The Book Argues For The Centrality Of The Media To Asian Transformations In The Era Of Globalization, And Explores The Way The Profusion Of The Media Today Is Reworking People's Identities At Individual, National, Regional, And Global Levels. Media Consumption And Everyday Life In Asia Provides A Critical Understanding Of The Place Of The Media In Different Nations And Regions Of Asia And Marks An Important Stage In Media Studies. The Book Will Appeal To Scholars And Students In Media And Communications Studies, Cultural Studies And Asian Studies.--jacket. Introduction: The Media And Asian Transformations / Youna Kim -- Experiencing Globalization: Global Tv, Reflexivity And The Lives Of Young Korean Women / Youna Kim -- Muslim Media And Youth In Globalizing Southeast Asia / Pamela Nilan -- Reimagining Tradition: Globalization In India From Mtv To Hanuman / Vamsee Juluri -- Reinventing Nationalism: The Politics Of Malaysian Idol On Culture And Identity In Postcolonial Malaysia / Joanne B.y. Lim -- Media Consumption And Incomplete Globalization: How Chinese Interpret Border-crossing Hong Kong Tv Drama / Anthony Y.h. Fung -- East Asian Pop Culture: Layers Of Communities / Chua Beng Huat -- Discovering Japanese Tv Drama Through Online Chinese Fans: Narrative Reflexivity, Implicit Therapy And The Question Of The Social Imaginary / Kelly Hu -- Dialogue With The Korean Wave: Japan And Its Postcolonial Discontents / Koichi Iwabuchi -- Nonresident Consumption Of India Cinema In Asia / Adrian M. Athique -- Bollywood In Bangladesh: Transcultural Consumption In Globalizing South Asia / Zakir Hossain Raju -- Consuming And Producing (post)modernity: Youth And Popular Culture In Thailand / Ubonrat Siriyuvasak -- Consuming Sex And The City: Young Taiwanese Women Contesting Sexuality / Yachien Huang -- Cybercute Politics: The Internet Cyworld And Gender Performativity In Korea / Larissa Hjorth -- Cultural Migrants And The Construction Of The Imagined West: The Japanese Youth / Yuiko Fujita. Edited By Youna Kim. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 Part I: Media Consumption in Globalization......Page 38 1 Experiencing Globalization: Global TV, Reflexivity and the Lives of Young Korean Women......Page 40 2 Muslim Media and Youth in Globalizing Southeast Asia......Page 58 3 Reimagining Tradition: Globalization in India from MTV to Hanuman......Page 72 4 Reinventing Nationalism: The Politics of Malaysian Idol on Culture and Identity in Postcolonial Malaysia......Page 83 5 Media Consumption and Incomplete Globalization: How Chinese Interpret Border-Crossing Hong Kong TV Dramas......Page 96 Part II: The Rise of Asian Media: Regional Consumption......Page 110 6 East Asian Pop Culture: Layers of Communities......Page 112 7 Discovering Japanese TV Drama through Online Chinese Fans: Narrative Reflexivity, Implicit Therapy and the Question of the Social Imaginary......Page 127 8 Dialogue with the Korean Wave: Japan and its Postcolonial Discontents......Page 140 9 Nonresident Consumption of Indian Cinema in Asia......Page 158 10 Bollywood in Bangladesh: Transcultural Consumption in Globalizing South Asia......Page 168 Part III: Everyday Life in Transition: Contesting Identity......Page 180 11 Consuming and Producing (Post)modernity: Youth and Popular Culture in Thailand......Page 182 12 Consuming Sex and the City: Young Taiwanese Women Contesting Sexuality......Page 201 13 Cybercute Politics: The Internet Cyworld and Gender Performativity in Korea......Page 216 14 Cultural Migrants and the Construction of the Imagined West: The Japanese Youth......Page 230 Contributors......Page 244 Index......Page 248 This book€considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people's everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia. The book argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization, and explores the way the profusion of the media today is reworking people's identities at individual, national, regional, and global levels. Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia provides a critical understanding of the place of the media in different nations and regi This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people?s everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia. The book argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization, and explores the way the profusion of the media today is reworking people?s identities at individual, national, regional, and global levels. Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia provides a critical understanding of the place of the media in different nations and regi