Investigates the relationship between gender, technology and various forms of mobility and immobility in the Asia-Pacific region. This book outlines various modes of gender performativity that makes the Asia-Pacific region so distinct to other regions globally. It is suitable for students of new media and gender in the Asia-Pacific region. This book locates the mobile phone not just as a symbol of lifestyle, but as a domestic technology that is very much subject to local nuances, treating the mobile phone as much as a cultural artefact as a functional technology.
Investigates the relationship between gender, technology and various forms of mobility and immobility in the Asia-Pacific region. This book outlines various modes of gender performativity that makes the Asia-Pacific region so distinct to other regions globally. It is suitable for students of new media and gender in the Asia-Pacific region.This book locates the mobile phone not just as a symbol of lifestyle, but as a domestic technology that is very much subject to local nuances, treating the mobile phone as much as a cultural artefact as a functional technology.
Larissa Hjorth is Lecturer in the Games and Digital Art programs at RMIT University, Australia.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Price of Being Mobile. Section 1: Mobile Media Societies 1. Locating the mobile: Mobile Communication and Gender in the Asia-Pacific 2. Paradigms of Mobility: Conceptual Tenors for Studying Mobility Today 3. Beyond "The New Rich": Consumption, Production and Gender in the Region Section 2: Mobile Media Cultures 4. Fast-forwarding to the Present: The Rise of Customised Mobile Media in Tokyo 5. Engaging Rings: The Haendupon and Intimate Communities in Seoul 6. Nostalgia Mobility: Memory and the Mobile Phone in Hong Kong 7. Postal Presence: Persistence of the Postal Metaphor in Melbourne 8. Domesticating Cartographies: Gendered Mobile Media in the Region Section 3: Mobile Media Practices 9. Domesticating New Media: A Discussion on Locating Mobile Media 10. The Big Bang: An Example of Mobile Media as New Media 11. On Hold: Reflections on a Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific
Introduction: The Price of Being Mobile. Section 1: Mobile Media Societies 1. Locating the mobile: Mobile Communication and Gender in the Asia-Pacific 2. Paradigms of Mobility: Conceptual Tenors for Studying Mobility Today 3. Beyond "The New Rich": Consumption, Production and Gender in the Region Section 2: Mobile Media Cultures 4. Fast-forwarding to the Present: The Rise of Customised Mobile Media in Tokyo 5. Engaging Rings: The Haendupon and Intimate Communities in Seoul 6. Nostalgia Mobility: Memory and the Mobile Phone in Hong Kong 7. Postal Presence: Persistence of the Postal Metaphor in Melbourne 8. Domesticating Cartographies: Gendered Mobile Media in the Region Section 3: Mobile Media Practices 9. Domesticating New Media: A Discussion on Locating Mobile Media 10. The Big Bang: An Example of Mobile Media as New Media 11. On Hold: Reflections on a Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific
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