Mobile communication and greater China / / edited by Rodney Wai-chi Chu ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 384.5/350951
• Soggetto topico: Information technology - Social aspects - China; Mobile communication systems - Social aspects - China; Telecommunication - Social aspects - China
• Altri autori: ChuWai-chi Rodney
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Mobile Communication and Greater China; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Series editors' preface; 1. The great mobile revolution and the Chinese encounter: an introduction; Part I. Overview: from global to China; 2. From West to East and beyond: main tenets in the studies of the mobile phone; 3. Riding the double juggernaut: depicting the Chinese mobile communication context; Part II. Theory, history and comparison; 4. Mobile communication and the fourth communicative revolution; 5. The history of the mobile phone in China ; 6. Comparative development of the mobile Internet in China and Japan7. Mobile communication and individualization in Europe and in China; Part III. Techno-social interplay: cultural and identity tension; 8. Mobile networks and civil society: philosophical reflections on organizing social participation in the context of Chinese society; 9. Social networks and individualism: some issues on the role of the mobile phone in urban China; 10. The identity and sociability of the mobile phone in China; Part IV. Exploring the Chineseness of mobile phone use ; 11. College students' self-positioning and mobile phone consumption12. Romance and sexual ideologies in SMS manuals circulating among migrant workers in Southern China; 13. Mobile phone usage in Chinese society; 14. Privatizing public spaces and personalizing private spaces: the challenge of mobile communication in Beijing; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly changing China, and the developing culture of mobile phone usage reflects both the cultural norms and struggle of the people.Through a theoretical comparison of usage in the West and in China, the editors assert the uniqueness of China's experience, highlighting that Chinese society is being
• Titolo autorizzato: Mobile communication and greater China
• ISBN: 1-136-32503-4; 1-280-66546-7; 9786613642394; 1-136-32504-2; 0-203-12094-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818890503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research on social work, social policy and social development in greater China ; ; 1.