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.
Introduction: Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered, Mobile Asia
Youna Kim
Part 1: Global Asia
1. Netflix, the Digital West in Asia: New Models, Challenges and Collaborations
Anthony Fung and Georgia Chik
2. The Shifting Terrain of Asia’s Television Landscape
Kalyani Chadha and Anandam Kavoori
3. Post-Bollywoodization: The Rise of Individualized Entertainment in India
Shanti Kumar
4. Media Capital and Digital Media Cities in Asia
Xin Gu
5. Soft Power and Cultural Nationalism: Globalization of the Korean Wave
Youna Kim
6. Border Crossing and the Question of Transgressive Openness
Koichi Iwabuchi
Part 2: Digital Asia
7. Transnational Popular Culture and Imagination in the Digital Age
Fabienne Darling-Wolf
8. Asian Celebrity Capital in Digital Media Networks: Scandal, Body Politics and Nationalism
Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
9. Digital Activism and Public Protest in India: Contextualizing Technologies and Cyber-Mobilization
Ramaswami Harindranath
10. NGO2.0, Nonconfrontational Activism and the Future Village Initiative
Jing Wang
11. From Digital Literacy to Digital Citizenship: Policies, Assessment Frameworks and Programmes for Young People in the Asia Pacific
Audrey Yue
12. Food and Digital Lifestyles in Asia: From MasterChef to Mukbang
Tania Lewis and Haiqing Yu
Part 3: Gendered Asia
13. Choosing the Right Love: Online Dating Platforms and Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia
Joanne Lim
14. "Queer" Media in Inter-Asia: Thinking Gender and Sexuality Transnationally
Michelle H. S. Ho
15. Crippled Warriors: Masculinities and Martial Arts Media in Asia
Luke White
16. Feminist Loitering in the City: Transmedia Practice and Imagination
Nadja-Christina Schneider
17. Domestic Workers and Immobile Mobility via WeChat: Performative Motherhood and Modernity in Beijing
Cara Wallis
18. Necropolitical Gender Politics: Parasite’s Figuring of Women’s Sacrificial Disposability
Kent A. Ono
Part 4: Mobile Asia
19. Bipolar America: Anti-Asian versus Hollywood’s Minari
Sheng-Mei Ma
20. Capital on the Move: Quantico, Im/mobile Laboring Bodies and the Hypermediation of Racial Difference
Purnima Mankekar
21. Digital Media and Diasporic Nationalism: Japanese Migrant Women in London
Yuiko Fujita and Kaoru Takahashi
22. Glocal Intimacies, Digital Media and the Transnational Lives of Elite Filipino Migrants during a Global Pandemic
Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco
23. Reconstituting Sexuality and Home in a Platform Age: Asian Australian and Asian New Zealand LGBTQ Web Series
Olivia Khoo
24. Citizenship, Nationalism and the Politics of Multiculturalism: Digital Networks of Indian Diasporas in Germany
Jayana Jain
Biography
Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005), Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (Routledge, 2008), Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (Routledge, 2011), Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self (2012), The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (Routledge, 2013), Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society (Routledge, 2016), Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media (Routledge, 2017), South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea (Routledge, 2019) and The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama (Routledge, 2021).
