T. J. M. Holden is Professor of Mediated Sociology in the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. Timothy J. Scrase is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Part 1: Media/tion In Context 1. Building Body, Making Face, Doing Love:
Mass Media and the Configuration of Class and Gender in Kathmandu 2.
Constructing Middle Class Culture: Globalization, Modernity and Indian
Media 3. Mediating the Entrepreneurial Self: Romance Texts and Young
Indonesian Women 4. SARS, Youth and Online Civic Participation in China 5.
Japan's Televisual Discourses: Infotainment, Intimacy, and the Construction
of a Collective Uchi 6. Seeking the 'Others' Within Us: Discourses of
Korean-Ness in Korean Popular Music Part 2: Media/tion Out of Context 7.
Portrayals of Women in Global Women's Magazines in China 8. Cyber-Nasyid:
Transnational Soundscapes in Muslim Southeast Asia 9. The Global Dispersal
of Media: Locating Non-Resident Audiences for Indian Films 10. Flipping
Kitty: Transnational Transgressions of Japanese Cute 11. Comic Art in Asian
Cultural Context
