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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458163603321

Titolo

Youth, society and mobile media in Asia / / edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson and Damien Spry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-28128-9

1-282-63980-3

9786612639807

0-203-85914-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Media, culture, and social change in Asia

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonTheresa Dirndorfer

DonaldStephanie

SpryDamien

Disciplina

302.23/50835095

Soggetti

Mobile communication systems - Social aspects - Asia

Wireless communication systems - Social aspects - Asia

Interpersonal communication - Technological innovations - Social aspects - Asia

Mass media and youth - Asia

Mobile communication systems - Social aspects - Australia

Wireless communication systems - Social aspects - Australia

Interpersonal communication - Technological innovations - Social aspects - Australia

Mass media and youth - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I: Mobility; Introduction: Why mobility matters: young people and media competency in the Asia-Pacific; Part II: Navigations; 1 Angels and devils: Youth mobile media politics, fear, hope and policy in Japan and Australia; 2 Japanese mobile youth in the 2000s; 3 'Your phone makes you, you': Exploring the youth script in teen magazine representations of mobile media; 4 The traditional



meets the technological: Mobile navigations of desire and intimacy; Part III: Innovations

5 The price of being mobile: Youth, gender and mobile media6 The city, self and connections: 'Transyouth' and urban social networking in Seoul; 7 The representation of mobile youth in the post-colonial techno-nation of Korea; 8 Official and unofficial mobile media in Australia: Youth, panics, innovation; 9 Mobile design: Giving voice to children and young people; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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