medi@sia: Global Media/tion In and Out of Context

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ISBN: 9780415474597 | 0415474590
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Copyright: 7/21/2008

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medi@sia is a path-breaking, cross-disciplinary study that employs ethnographic methods and sociological and cultural perspectives to examine the uses and influences of various media in a large number of contexts inside and flowing out of Asia today.

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List of illustrations	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction: Theorizing media in Asia today	p. 1
Media/tion in context	p. 23
Building body, making face, doing love: Mass media and the configuration of class and gender in Kathmandu	p. 25
Constructing middle class culture: Globalization, modernity and Indian media	p. 44
Mediating the entrepreneurial self: Romance texts and young Indonesian women	p. 62
SARS, youth and online civic participation in China	p. 82
Japan's televisual discourses: Infotainment, intimacy, and the construction of a collective uchi	p. 105
Seeking the "others" within us: Discourses of Korean-ness in Korean popular music	p. 128
Media/tion out of context	p. 147
Portrayals of women in global women's magazines in China	p. 149
Cyber-nasyid: Transnational soundscapes in Muslim Southeast Asia	p. 170
The global dispersal of media: Locating non-resident audiences for Indian films	p. 188
Flipping Kitty: Transnational transgressions of Japanese Cute	p. 207
Comic art in Asian cultural context	p. 224
Index	p. 243
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