Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered and Mobile (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia)

"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"-- Publisher's website 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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Illustrations 9 Acknowledgments 10 Notes on Contributors 12 Introduction: Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered, Mobile Asia 20 Part I Global Asia 58 Chapter 1 Netflix, the Digital West in Asia: New Models, Challenges and Collaborations 60 Chapter 2 The Shifting Terrain of Asia’s Television Landscape 72 Chapter 3 Post-Bollywoodization: The Rise of Individualized Entertainment in India 85 Chapter 4 Media Capital and Digital Media Cities in Asia 99 Chapter 5 Soft Power and Cultural Nationalism: Globalization of the Korean Wave 112 Chapter 6 Border Crossing and the Question of Transgressive Openness 126 Part II Digital Asia 142 Chapter 7 Transnational Popular Culture and Imagination in the Digital Age 144 Chapter 8 Asian Celebrity Capital in Digital Media Networks: Scandal, Body Politics and Nationalism 158 Chapter 9 Digital Activism and Public Protest in India: Contextualizing Technologies and Cyber-Mobilization 171 Chapter 10 NGO2.0, Nonconfrontational Activism and the Future Village Initiative 185 Chapter 11 From Digital Literacy to Digital Citizenship: Policies, Assessment Frameworks and Programs for Young People in the Asia Pacific 200 Chapter 12 Food and Digital Lifestyles in Asia: From MasterChef to Mukbang 214 Part III Gendered Asia 228 Chapter 13 Choosing the Right Love: Online Dating Platforms and Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia 230 Chapter 14 “Queer” Media in Inter-Asia: Thinking Gender and Sexuality Transnationally 245 Chapter 15 Crippled Warriors: Masculinities and Martial Arts Media in Asia 258 Chapter 16 Feminist Loitering in the City: Transmedia Practice and Imagination 272 Chapter 17 Domestic Workers and Immobile Mobility via WeChat: Performative Motherhood and Modernity in Beijing 285 Chapter 18 Necropolitical Gender Politics: Parasite’s Figuring of Women’s Sacrificial Disposability 298 Part IV Mobile Asia 310 Chapter 19 Bipolar America: Anti-Asian versus Hollywood’s Minari 312 Chapter 20 Capital on the Move: Quantico, Im/Mobile Laboring Bodies and the Hypermediation of Racial Difference 323 Chapter 21 Digital Media and Diasporic Nationalism: Japanese Migrant Women in London 337 Chapter 22 Glocal Intimacies, Digital Media and the Transnational Lives of Elite Filipino Migrants during a Global Pandemic 352 Chapter 23 Reconstituting Sexuality and Home in a Platform Age: Asian Australian and Asian New Zealand LGBTQ Web Series 367 Chapter 24 Citizenship, Nationalism and the Politics of Multiculturalism: Digital Networks of Indian Diasporas in Germany 380 Index 394 Media,in,Asia;,Global,Asia;,Digital,Asia;,Gendered,Asia;,Mobile,Asia;,Digital,West;,Digital,Age;,Digital,Literacy;,Gender,Inequality;,Gender,Politics;,Digital,Media;,Media,Capital Media in Asia,Global Asia,Digital Asia,Gendered Asia,Mobile Asia,Digital West,Digital Age,Digital Literacy,Gender Inequality,Gender Politics,Digital Media,Media Capital