Social Media In Asia

Author : Azman Azwan Azmawati,Rachel E. Khan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443896337

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Social Media in Asia by Azman Azwan Azmawati,Rachel E. Khan Pdf

As part of the advocacy of the Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) to promote regional studies in global academic discourse, this book contributes to a better understanding of social media within the context of Southeast Asian countries, with the addition of Sri Lanka. The contributors here are primarily Asian academics and practitioners, immersed in the fields of media and communication. Throughout the chapters, the reader will discover that social media has changed the paradigm of communication in the region: as an avenue for free expression; as a tool for news gathering and news distribution; as an aid in crime prevention; and even as a means to find a lifelong partner. For non-Asian readers, there is also an annex that provides a summary of social media statistics in the region to allow the countries mentioned in this book to be situated within the global context.

Author : Jason Vincent A. Cabañes,Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789402417906

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Mobile Media and Social Intimacies in Asia by Jason Vincent A. Cabañes,Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco Pdf

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

Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson,Damien Spry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135281274

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Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson,Damien Spry Pdf

This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion. It explores current media practices and their innovative, transformative and disruptive uses at the local, the regional, the national, and the global level. In particular, it analyses mobile media not as a discrete object, but rather as part of a dynamic communication and information environment in which human-object relations are constantly reconfigured. It covers key theoretical and conceptual themes in youth mobile media research focusing on social, cultural and political aspects, including coverage of key themes such as regulation and technology, practices, pedagogies, aesthetics, social change, and representations of mobile youth. The book includes new accounts of recent research into the uses of mobile media by young people, and how these are situated in a broader socio-political context. Case studies include mobile panics in Australia (the notorious Kings of Wirrabee sexual assault case) and Japan (the scandals of high school girls as teenage prostitutes) in which mobile media use has had significant impact. This book offers an up-to-date examination of the influence of information communication technologies on young people’s lives in the region.

Author : Aim Sinpeng,Ross Tapsell
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814951036

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From Grassroots Activism to Disinformation by Aim Sinpeng,Ross Tapsell Pdf

This book reflects on the role of social media in the past two decades in Southeast Asia. It traces the emergence of social media discourse in Southeast Asia, and its potential as a “liberation technology” in both democratizing and authoritarian states. It explains the growing decline in internet freedom and increasingly repressive and manipulative use of social media tools by governments, and argues that social media is now an essential platform for control. The contributors detail the increasing role of “disinformation” and “fake news” production in Southeast Asia, and how national governments are creating laws which attempt to address this trend, but which often exacerbate the situation of state control. From Grassroots Activism to Disinformation explores three main questions: How did social media begin as a vibrant space for grassroots activism to becoming a tool for disinformation? Who were the main actors in this transition: governments, citizens or the platforms themselves? Can reformists “reclaim” the digital public sphere? And if so, how?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968221

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Digital Media in East Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ross Tapsell
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814881647

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Deepening the Understanding of Social Media’s Impact in Southeast Asia by Ross Tapsell Pdf

Southeast Asia’s Internet users are far more diverse than usually reported. They range from the urban youth with laptops and highspeed Wi-Fi, to the older generation semi-rural and rural users with affordable mobile phones for Facebook and WhatsApp. Southeast Asians generally trust social media platforms more than in Western societies. This trust in social media reflects a lack of trust in local mainstream media and official sources of information. What campaign information (and disinformation) is being spread and which ones are most successful are essential for understanding how voters in Southeast Asia use and trust social media. Social media platforms and Southeast Asia’s “app industry” need clearer and enforced regulation on their use of data and the extent to which they can sell data to advertisers. These advertisers include, but are not limited to, politicians and political parties. Since the future of social media usage will likely lie in closed groups, the role of big data analyses that have dominated research on social media over the past ten years, is likely to regress. Instead, ethnographic scholars who can access these groups and engage with their particular interests and identities are more likely to be useful in understanding the digital sphere in the future.

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000584356

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Media in Asia by Youna Kim Pdf

This book is an upper-level student source book for contemporary approaches to media studies in Asia, which will appeal across a wide range of social sciences and humanities subjects including media and communication studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and Asian studies, it provides an empirically rich and stimulating tour of key areas of study. The book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in one up-to-date and accessible volume, going beyond the standard Euro-American view of the evolving and complex dynamics of the media today.

Author : Shriram Venkatraman
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911307938

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Social Media in South India by Shriram Venkatraman Pdf

One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what was once a space dominated by agriculture has resulted in a complex juxtaposition between an evolving knowledge economy and the traditions of rural life. While certain class tensions have emerged in response to this juxtaposition, a study of social media in the region suggests that similarities have also transpired, observed most clearly in the blurring of boundaries between work and life for both the old residents and the new. Venkatraman explores the impact of social media at home, work and school, and analyses the influence of class, caste, age and gender on how, and which, social media platforms are used in different contexts. These factors, he argues, have a significant effect on social media use, suggesting that social media in South India, while seeming to induce societal change, actually remains bound by local traditions and practices.

Author : Litang Cui,Michael H. Prosser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1937570363

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Social Media in Asia by Litang Cui,Michael H. Prosser Pdf

Social Media in Asia is a collection of essays about fourteen countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Most authors are from that region, too. As communication via social media is commonplace among people all over the world, analyzing social media use is crucial for intercultural understanding. Featuring essays about fourteen countries in the Asia-Pacific region, this book provides fresh perspectives at cultural dialogue.

Author : Larissa Hjorth,Michael Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781136657610

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Online@AsiaPacific by Larissa Hjorth,Michael Arnold Pdf

Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region has been pivotal in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media technologies and through social and mobile media we can see emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by the local. The six case studies that inform this book—Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne—offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, and linguistic differences, enabling the authors to provide new insights into specific issues pertaining to mobile media in each city. These include social, mobile and locative media as a form of crisis management in post 3/11 Tokyo; generational shifts in Shanghai; political discussion and the shifting social fabric in Singapore; and the erosion of public and private, and work and leisure paradigms in Melbourne. Through its striking case studies, this book sheds new light on how the region and its contested and multiple identities are evolving, and concludes by revealing the impact of mobile media on how place is shaped, as well as shaping, practices of mobility, intimacy and a sense of belonging. Employing comprehensive, cross-disciplinary frameworks from theoretical approaches such as media sociology, ethnography, cultural studies and media and communication studies, Online@AsiaPacific will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, cybercultures, new media studies, communication studies and internet studies.

Author : Ross Tapsell
Publisher : Iseas - Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9814881635

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Deepening the Understanding of Social Media's Impact in Southeast Asia by Ross Tapsell Pdf

Southeast Asia's Internet users are far more diverse than usually reported. They range from the urban youth with laptops and highspeed Wi-Fi, to the older generation semi-rural and rural users with affordable mobile phones for Facebook and WhatsApp.

Author : Larissa Hjorth,Olivia Khoo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317684985

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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia by Larissa Hjorth,Olivia Khoo Pdf

While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an everyday reality for young and old across Asia through smartphones and associated devices, boundaries between art, new media, and the everyday are transformed. This Handbook addresses the historical, social, cultural, political, philosophical, artistic and economic dimensions of the region’s new media. Through an interdisciplinary revision of both "new media" and "Asia" the contributors provide new insights into the complex and contesting terrains of both notions. The Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia will be the definitive publication for readers interested in comprehending all the various aspects of new media in Asia. It provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, conceptually cutting-edge guide to the important aspects of new media in the region — as the first point of consultation for researchers, advanced level undergraduate and postgraduate students in fields of new media and Asian studies.

Author : Scott Downman,Kasun Ubayasiri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349951796

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Journalism for Social Change in Asia by Scott Downman,Kasun Ubayasiri Pdf

This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting through the use of human-focussed news values. This approach is a radical departure from the traditional style that typically builds on abstract concepts. The book will explore human rights journalism through the lens of complex issues such as human trafficking and people smuggling in the Asian context. This is not just a book for journalists, or journalism academics, but a book for activists, human rights advocates or anyone who believes in the power of journalism to change the world.

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135896447

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Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia by Youna Kim Pdf

This book explores people’s everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization. The profusion of the media today, with new imaginations, new choices and contradictions, generates a critical condition for reflexivity engaging everyday people to have a resource for the learning of self, culture and society in a new light. Media culture is creating new connections, new desires and threats, and the identities of people are being reworked at individual, national, regional and global levels. Within historically specific social conditions and contexts of the everyday, the chapters seek to provide a diversity of experiences and understandings of the place of the media in different Asian locations. This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people’s everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia.

Author : Aswin Punathambekar,Sriram Mohan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780472131402

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Global Digital Cultures by Aswin Punathambekar,Sriram Mohan Pdf

Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how people engage with others as kin, as citizens, and as consumers. Moving away from Anglo-American and strictly national frameworks, the essays in this book explore the intersections of local, national, regional, and global forces that shape contemporary digital culture(s) in regions like South Asia: the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media practice and use that are reconfiguring sociocultural, political, and economic terrains across the Indian subcontinent. From massive state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime television to Facebook and political rumors, Global Digital Cultures focuses on enduring concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption.