Donald, S. H., Anderson, T. & Spry, D. (Eds). (2009). Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia. Routledge.
Introduction Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Section 1: Regulation, Technology and Structure
1. Mobile Design – Giving Voice to Children and Young People Theresa Anderson
2. Change in Japanese Mobile Youth Misa Matsuda
3. The Price of Being Mobile Larissa Hjorth
   
Section 2: Ubiquity and Locality
4. The Traditional Meets the Technological: Mobile Phones, Intimacy, and Young Rural-to Urban Migrant Women in Beijing Cara Wallis
5. How New Mobile Media are Making Indonesia Youth Culture More Mobile and More Local Gerard Raiti and Michiel de Lange
6. Children’s Ubiquitous Mobile Media and Education Policy in Australia and Japan Damien Spry
7. Domestication and Mobilization: Young Koreans’ Local Strategies through Mobile Phones Kyongwon Yoon
   
Section 3: Panics and Popular Media
8. The Representation of the Mobile Phone in Singaporean Teen Magazines Sun Sun Lim
9. Official and Unofficial Mobile Media in Australia: Youth, Panics, Innovation Gerard Goggin.
   
Conclusion.  
   

About the Book

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 relations are constantly reconfigured. It covers key theoretical and conceptual themes in youth mobile media research focusing on social, cultural and political aspects, including coverage of key themes such as regulation and technology, practices, pedagogies, aesthetics, social change, and representations of mobile youth. It also includes empirical and historical analyses of these themes, and an extensive range of case studies that outline and examine these areas of inquiry.

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