Mobile media in the Asia Pacific : gender and the art of being mobile / Larissa Hjorth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hjorth, Larissa.

Series:

Asia.com

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cell phones--Social aspects--Pacific Area--Case studies.

Cell phones.

Technology--Social aspects--Pacific Area--Case studies.

Technology.

Consumer behavior--Sex differences--Pacific Area--Case studies.

Consumer behavior.

Postmodernism--Social aspects--Pacific Area--Case studies.

Postmodernism.

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Consumer behavior--Sex differences.

Technology--Social aspects.

Cell phones--Social aspects.

Pacific Area.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 300 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

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 post-modernity 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 make the Asia-Pacific 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.

Contents:

Introduction: the price of being mobile 1

Part I Mobile media societies 17

1 Locating the mobile: mobile communication and gender in the Asia-Pacific 19

2 Paradigms of mobility: conceptual tenors for studying mobility today 48

3 Beyond the 'new rich': consumption, production and gender in the region 62

Part II Mobile media cultures 77

4 Fast-forwarding to the present: the rise of customised mobile media in Tokyo 79

5 Engaging rings: the haendupon and intimate communities in Seoul 119

6 Nostalgic mobility: memory and the mobile phone in Hong Kong 151

7 Postal presence: persistence of the postal metaphor in Melbourne 188

8 Domesticating cartographies: gendered mobile media in the region 226

Part III Mobile media practices 239

9 Domesticating new media: a discussion on locating mobile media 241

10 The big bang: an example of mobile media as new media 253

11 On hold: reflections on mobile media in the Asia-Pacific 265.

ISBN:

9780415438094

0415438098

9780203889848

0203889843

OCLC:

220421181