By Larissa Hjorth
This century has been marked through the fast and divergent uptake of cellular telephony during the global. The cell phone has turn into a poignant image for postmodernity and the attendant modes of world mobility and immobility. such a lot significantly, the icon of the cellphone is such a lot palpable within the Asia-Pacific within which a range of innovation and patron practices – reflecting gender and locality – are available. during the lens of gendered cellular media, Mobile Media within the Asia Pacific presents perception into this phenomenon through concentrating on case reviews in Japan, South Korea, China and Australia.
Despite the ubiquity and multi-layered nature of cellular media within the area, the styles of woman intake have bought little recognition within the turning out to be literature on cellular communique globally. employing ethnographic examine performed within the Asia-Pacific over a six-year interval, this booklet investigates the connection among gender, expertise and numerous types of mobility and immobility within the zone. This publication outlines the rising modes of gender performativity that makes the Asia-Pacific sector so unique to different areas globally.
Mobile Media within the Asia Pacific is a attention-grabbing learn for college kids and students drawn to new media and gender within the Asia-Pacific region.
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