1st Edition

Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia

192 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

Part I  Introduction – Why mobility matters: young people and media competency in the Asia-Pacific - Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Part II  1. Angels and devils: youth mobile media politics, fear, hope and policy in Japan and Australia - Damien Spry  2. Japanese mobile youth in the 2000s - Misa Matsuda  3. ‘Your phone makes you, you’: exploring the youth script in teen magazine representations of mobile media - Sun Sun Lim  4. The traditional meets the technological: mobile navigations of desire and intimacy - Cara Wallis  Part III  5. The price of being mobile: youth, gender and mobile media - Larissa Hjorth  6. The city, self and connections: ‘transyouth’ and urban social networking in Seoul - Jaz Hee-jeong Choi  7. The representation of mobile youth in the post-colonial techno-nation of Korea - Kyongwon Yoon  Part IV  8. Official and unofficial mobile media in Australia: youth, panics, innovation - Gerard Goggin   9. Mobile design: giving voice to children and young people - Theresa Anderson 

Biography

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Dean of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her most recent publications include Global Media Studies: Theories and Approaches; Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism and Social Change; The State of China Atlas; and Little Friends: Children’s Film and Media Culture in China. Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Practices, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia.  Damien Spry is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia.