Research Catalog

Title

Online@AsiaPacific : mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific / Larissa Hjorth and Michael Arnold.

Author

Hjorth, Larissa.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Arnold, Michael, 1952-

Description

xii, 206 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Locating intimacies of place and gender (Seoul) -- Spectres of mobile intimacy : mobile media in crisis management of 3.11 (Tokyo) -- The place of intimate visualities : Ba ling hou, LBS and camera phones (Shanghai) -- Intimate distance : sociality and identity in the face of diaspora (Manila) -- Generations, mobile intimacy and political affect (Singapore) -- The place of the domestic : smartphones, women and labour (Melbourne) -- Intimate publics, communities and networks in an age of mobile social media -- Topographies of the intimate : mobile publics in the Asia-Pacific -- Emplaced presences : visual cultures of embodied intimacies -- Conclusion : intimacies of the social, mobile and local.
• "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 which inform this book: Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne, offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, linguistic and religious 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"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Asia.com ; 7

Uniform Title

Asia.com ; 7.

Alternative Title

• Online @ Asia Pacific
• Online at Asia Pacific

Subject

• Social media > Asia > Case studies
• Social media > Pacific Area > Case studies
• Smartphones > Asia > Case studies
• Smartphones > Pacific Area > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-195) and index.

Call Number

JFE 13-8308

ISBN

• 9780415672160 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0415672163 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9780203584330 (e-book)
• 0203584333 (e-book)

LCCN

• 2012034590
• 40022187227

OCLC

703208710

Author

Hjorth, Larissa.

Title

Online@AsiaPacific : mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific / Larissa Hjorth and Michael Arnold.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Series

Asia.com ; 7

Asia.com ; 7.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-195) and index.

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Arnold, Michael, 1952-

Other Standard Identifier

40022187227

Research Call Number

JFE 13-8308