Mobile media and social intimacies in Asia : reconfiguring local ties and enacting global relationships / Jason Vincent A. Cabañes, Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco, editors.
2020
HM1166 .M63 2020eb
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Title
Mobile media and social intimacies in Asia : reconfiguring local ties and enacting global relationships / Jason Vincent A. Cabañes, Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco, editors.
ISBN
9789402417906 (electronic book)
9402417907 (electronic book)
9789402417890
9402417907 (electronic book)
9789402417890
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, 2020 ;.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-024-1
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HM1166 .M63 2020eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.46
Summary
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 regions 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 peoples 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 regions 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 exc iting 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.
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Cabañes, Jason Vincent A.
Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S.
Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S.
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Mobile communication in Asia : local insights, global implications.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I: Mobile media in East/Southeast Asia
Intimate relationships and friendships
Section II: An examination of mobile media
The changing definitions of East/Southeast Asian families
Section III: Mobile media and the East/Southeast Asian experience
Neighbourliness and community
Conclusion.
Section I: Mobile media in East/Southeast Asia
Intimate relationships and friendships
Section II: An examination of mobile media
The changing definitions of East/Southeast Asian families
Section III: Mobile media and the East/Southeast Asian experience
Neighbourliness and community
Conclusion.