1st Edition

Online@AsiaPacific Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

By Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold Copyright 2013
224 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: Social, mobile and locative media @ Asia-Pacific  Part I: Locating the Mobile 2. Locating Intimacies of Place and Gender (Seoul) 3. Spectres of Mobile Intimacy: Mobile media in crisis management of 3.11 (Tokyo) 4. The Place of Intimate Visualities: Ba ling hou, LBS and camera phones (Shanghai) 5. Intimate Distance: Sociality and identity in the face of diaspora (Manila) 6. Generations, Mobile Intimacy and Political Affect (Singapore) 7. The Place of the Domestic: Smartphones, women and labour (Melbourne)  Part II: Intimate Publics and Mobile Intimacy 8. Intimate Publics, Communities and Networks in an Age of Mobile Social Media 9. Topographies of the Intimate: Mobile publics in the Asia-Pacific 10. Emplaced Presences: Visual cultures of embodied intimacies 11. Conclusion: Intimacies of the social, mobile and local

Biography

Larissa Hjorth is Associate Professor in Games at RMIT University, Australia.

Michael Arnold is Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

'In bringing together the varieties of use of mobile phones and social media, Online@AsiaPacific is a benchmark publication.' - Michael Keane; Asian Creative Transformations 2013.