Mobile Media and Social Intimacies in Asia

出版者:Springer Netherlands

作者:Cabañes, Jason Vincent A.

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出版时间:2020-3

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装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9789402417906

具体描述

This edited volume brings together cutting-edge studies from emerging scholars of East/Southeast Asia who explore the role of mobile media in the contemporary transformation of the region’s social intimacies, from the romantic to the familial to the communal. By providing a regional and transnational overview of such studies, it affords new insights into how these mobile technologies have contributed to the rise of ‘glocal intimacies’. This pertains to the normalisation and intensification of how people’s relationships of closeness are entangled in the ever-shifting and constantly negotiated flows between global modernity and local everyday life. In providing case studies of mobile media and glocal intimacies, the chapters in the volume attend to a broad range of countries that include China, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, and Taiwan. This illustrates the differing ways in which mobile media might be embedded in the region’s divergent articulations of social intimacies, which reflect the ongoing tensions between Western and Asian imaginaries of modernity. The chapters also discuss a wide array of mobile media that people use, from social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, to messaging apps like KakaoTalk and WhatsApp, to dating apps like Tinder and Blued. This allows for a mapping out of the different levels of impact that mobile media might have on social intimacies in a region that contains some of the most technologically advanced as well as the most technologically behind societies in the world. In summary, this book allows readers to take a comparative approach to understanding the complexity of the glocal intimacies that are emerging from the ways people in Asia use mobile media to reconfigure their local ties and to enact global relationships. This volume will benefit students, academics, and researchers who are keen in media and communication, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and Asian studies.

“This exciting and much-needed book will greatly advance our efforts to decolonise media and communications research. The chapters offer empirically rich and nuanced accounts that challenge the dominant paradigms about mediated intimacy.”

Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths, University of London

“This collection develops the original concept of ‘glocal intimacies’ to describe how mobile media have become a crucial site where new social intimacies are enacted, reinforced and transformed in Asia. It introduces fresh empirical research from emerging scholars to furnish deep theoretical insights into these imaginaries and practices.”

Audrey Yue, National University of Singapore

作者简介

Jason Vincent A. Cabañes is an Associate Professor in Communication and a Research Fellow at De La Salle University―Manila, Philippines. He has a PhD in Communications Studies from the University of Leeds, UK. He researches primarily on the mediation of cross-cultural intimacies and solidarities, with a particular focus on postcolonial multiculturalism. He also does work on digital labor in the Global South. His publications have appeared in top-tier journals such as New Media & Society, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies as well as in edited collections in the field of media and communications studies.

Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at California State University San Marcos, USA. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, USA. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research is primarily engaged in interrogating the relationships between media, culture, and globalization. In particular, she studies the Philippine telecom industry, digital inequality, and the reproduction of power and digital media and transnational Filipino migrants. Her work has been published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Communication Research and Practice, and various edited books.

目录信息

Contents
1 Mobile Media and the Rise of ‘Glocal Intimacies’ in Asia (Jason Vincent A. Cabañes and Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco)
Part I Reconfiguring Local Ties
2 ‘Now You Can See Who’s Around You’: Negotiating and Regulating Gay Intimacies
on Mobile Media in the People’s Republic of China (James Cummings)
3 Networked Individualism and Networked Families in Malaysia (Julian Hopkins)
4 Torture and Love: Wives of Chinese Gay Men and Their Cyber Communities (Wenjing Liu)
5 The Digital Wash Place: Mobile Messaging Apps as New Communal Spaces for Korean ‘Smart Ajummas’ (Jung Youn Moon)
6 Fandom in My Pocket: Mobile Social Intimacies in WhatsApp Fan Groups (Hattie Liew)
Part II Enacting Global Relationships
7 Dating Apps as Digital Flyovers: Mobile Media and Global Intimacies in a Postcolonial City (Jason Vincent A. Cabañes and Christianne F. Collantes)
8 Visualizing Birth Tourism on Social Media: Taiwanese Expectant Mothers in the United States (Tingyu Kang)
9 Left-Behind Children as Agents: Mobile Media, Transnational Communication and the Mediated Family Gaze (Hong Chen)
10 Transnational Mobile Carework: Filipino Migrants, Family Intimacy, and Mobile Media
(Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco and Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto)
11 Mobile Media and Kirogi Mothers: Place-Making and the Reimagination of Transnational Korean Family Intimacies (Young A Jung)
12 K-Pop Male Androgyny, Mediated Intimacy, and Vietnamese Fandom (Ha Hoang)
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用户评价

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