Mobile Gaming in Asia
Mobile Gaming in Asia

Author: Dal Yong Jin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-29

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 9402408266

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This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry – a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians’ engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games, but also on the significance of social milieu in the development of Asian mobile technologies and gaming culture. It analyzes the growth of the current mobile technologies and mobile gaming not as separate but as continuous developments in tandem with the digital economy. It is of interest to both academics and a broader readership from the business, government, and information technology sectors

Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific
Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific

Author: Larissa Hjorth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-06-24

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1135843171

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This collection explores the politics of game play and its cultural context by focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing from micro ethnographic studies to macro political economy analysis of techno-nationalisms and transcultural flows of cultural capital, it provides an interdisciplinary model for thinking through the politics of gaming.

Studying Digital Media Audiences
Studying Digital Media Audiences

Author: Craig Hight

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1315402041

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Although many digital platforms continue to appropriate and reconfigure familiar forms of media experience, this is an environment which no longer consistently constructs an identifiable 'mass' audience in the terms understood by twentieth century audience researchers. The notion of 'audiencing' takes on different characteristics within a digital environment where platforms encourage users to upload, share and respond to content, while the platforms themselves monetise the digital traces of this activity. This environment demands new ways of thinking about audience and user engagement with media technologies, and raises significant questions on methods of conceiving and researching audience-users. This volume addresses ongoing debates in the field of audience research by exploring relevant conceptual and methodological issues concerning the systematic study of digital audiences. Drawing from work conducted by researchers based in Australia and New Zealand, the book uses theoretical frameworks and case study material which are of direct relevance to audience researchers globally.

Asia Unplugged
Asia Unplugged

Author: Madanmohan Rao

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-02-17

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780761932727

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"A compact and comprehensive introduction to the epicentre of the world's wireless revolution, this volume will be required reading for scholars, professionals and entrepreneurs involved in the foundations and frontiers of the wireless ecosystem in Asia and around the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions
Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions

Author: Dal Yong Jin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1000766551

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This book examines cross-regional film collaboration within the Asia-Pacific region. Through a mixed methods approach of political economy, industry and market, as well as textual analysis, the book contributes to the understanding of the global fusion of cultural products and the reconfiguration of geographic, political, economic, and cultural relations. Issues covered include cultural globalization and Asian regionalization; identity, regionalism, and industry practices; and inter-Asian and transpacific co-production practices among the U.S.A., China, South Korea, Japan, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand.

Smartland Korea
Smartland Korea

Author: Dal Yong Jin

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2017-02-20

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 047205337X

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An engaging and comprehensive look at the Korean smartphone industry and culture

Gaming in Social, Locative and Mobile Media
Gaming in Social, Locative and Mobile Media

Author: L. Hjorth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1137301422

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Drawing on case studies across the Asia-Pacific region, Gaming in Social, Locative and Mobile Media explores the 'playful turn' in contemporary everyday life, and the role of mobile devices, games and social media in this transformation.

Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea
Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea

Author: Kyong Yoon Yong Jin

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2018-05-16

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1498562043

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In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development of local media and culture. Korea has greatly developed several cutting-edge technologies, such as smartphones, video games, and mobile instant messengers to become the most networked society throughout the world. As the Korean Wave exemplifies, the once small and peripheral Korea has also created several unique local popular cultures, including television programs, movies, and popular music, known as K-pop, and these products have penetrated many parts of the world. As Korean media and popular culture have rapidly grown, the number of media scholars and topics covering these areas in academic discourses has increased. These scholars’ interests have expanded from traditional media, such as Korean journalism and cinema, to several new cutting-edge areas, like digital technologies, health communication, and LGBT-related issues. In celebrating the Korean American Communication Association’s fortieth anniversary in 2018, this book documents and historicizes the growth of growing scholarship in the realm of Korean media and communication.

Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific
Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific

Author: Larissa Hjorth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-10-13

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1134072066

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This century has been marked by the rapid and divergent uptake of mobile telephony throughout the world. The mobile phone has become a poignant symbol for postmodernity and the attendant modes of global mobility and immobility. Most notably, the icon of the mobile phone is most palpable in the Asia-Pacific in which a diversity of innovation and consumer practices – reflecting gender and locality – can be found. Through the lens of gendered mobile media, Mobile Media in the Asia Pacific provides insight into this phenomenon by focusing on case studies in Japan, South Korea, China and Australia. Despite the ubiquity and multi-layered nature of mobile media in the region, the patterns of female consumption have received little attention in the growing literature on mobile communication globally. Utilising ethnographic research conducted in the Asia-Pacific over a six-year period, this book investigates the relationship between gender, technology and various forms of mobility and immobility in the region. This book outlines the emerging modes of gender performativity that makes the Asia-Pacific region so distinct to other regions globally. Mobile Media in the Asia Pacific is a fascinating read for students and scholars interested in new media and gender in the Asia-Pacific region.

Asian Cultural Flows
Asian Cultural Flows

Author: Nobuko Kawashima

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9811001472

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This book investigates economic, political, and cultural conditions that have led to transnational flows of culture in Asia. Coverage also looks at the consequences of an increasingly interconnected Asian regional culture as well as policy makers and cultural industries' response to it. The book features essays written by researchers from different countries in Asia and beyond with diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The volume also contains engaging examples and cases with comparative perspectives. The contributors provide readers with grounded analysis in the organizational and economic logics of Asian creative industries, national cultural policies that promote or hinder cultural flows, and the media convergence and online consumers' surging demand for Asianized cultural products. Such insights are of crucial importance for a better understanding of the dynamics of transnational cultural flows in contemporary Asia. In addition, the essays aim to “de-westernize” the study of cultural and creative industries, which draws predominantly on cases in the United States and Europe. The contributors focus instead on regional dynamics of the development of these industries. The popularity of J-Pop and K-Pop in East and Southeast Asia (and beyond) is now well known, but less is known about how this happened. This volume offers readers theoretical tools that will help them to make better sense of those exciting phenomena and other rising cultural flows within Asia and their relevance to the global cultural economy.