Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific : Gender and the Art of Being Mobile

This book locates the mobile phone not just as a symbol of lifestyle, but as a domestic technology that is very much subject to local nuances, treating the mobile phone as much as a cultural artefact as a functional technology.

Introduction: The price of being mobile Mobile @ region: locating the mobile in the region Mobile @ gender: new mobilities and immobilities Mobile @ cultures: approaching domestication Mobile @ cartographies: case study locations, fieldwork and chapter outline Section 1: Mobile media societies Chapter 1: Locating the mobile: Mobile communication and gender in the Asia-Pacific The place of the mobile: current literature in the field Mobile @ global: a brief history of the rise of mobile communication studies Mobile @ asia_pacific: regional mobilities Mobile @ media: convergence Mobile @ new_media: domesticating new media Chapter 2: Paradigms of mobility: Conceptual tenors for studying mobility today Mobile @ place: waiting for immediacy Mobile @ capital: individualism, social capital and intimacy Mobile @ domestic: bringing the mobile, mobility and mobilism back home Chapter 3: Beyond "The New Rich": Consumption, production and gender in the region Gendered modernities: another story to the mobility of post-industrialism The sign of the time: changing modes of consumption in the region Imagining imaging communities: the politics of mobile media in the region Section 2: Mobile media cultures Chapter 4: Fast-forwarding to the present: The rise of customised mobile media in Tokyo National genders: a snapshot of emerging agendas in Japan Genealogies of mobility: one history of the keitai in Japan Soft-where: the history of kawaii aesthetics and its migration into keitai cultures Kaomoji and beyond: emerging emotologies in mobile Internet usage Keitai @ convergence: case study of sample respondents Cybercute: conclusion Chapter 5: Engaging rings: The haendupon and intimate communities in Seoul The space in between connection and contact: South Korean technoscape Home page: locating Cyworld in Korea and beyond Snapshots: a case study of Korean university student camera phone practices Freeze frame: reflections upon haendupon kukmim kajok and gender Chapter 6: Nostalgia mobility: Memory and the mobile phone in Hong Kong Made in China: Hong Kong reterritorialised Mobile memories: the geo-political imagery of Hong Kong Upward mobility: mobility in Hong Kong. Yearning for wenqing zhuyi: a case study among Hong Kong users Imaging @ communities: wenqing zhuyi and cross-cultural consumption Chapter 7: Postal presence: Persistence of the postal metaphor in Melbourne Reconnections: locating the practice of South Postal cartographies: customisation in Melbourne Pixoleur: case study of sample group One-hour photo: a case study of camera phone practices Wish you were hear: conclusion Chapter 8: Domesticating cartographies: Gendered mobile media in the region. Hypermobility @ gender: the politics of gendered labour and media Re-imaging communities: rethinking the region Section 3: mobile media practices Chapter 9: Domesticating new media: A discussion on locating mobile media Mobile @ convergence: divergence and convergence Domesticating new media: two examples of the multi-traditions of mobile media Time after time: the never-ending concluding beginning Chapter 10: The big bang: An example of mobile media as new media The inertia of mobility The big bang: contextualising the socio-technological space of Seoul Mobile play: Dotplay and the politics of being mobile Mobile but not free: conclusion Chapter 11: On Hold: reflections on a mobile media in the Asia-Pacific Slow Spectres of immediacy Rewind, fast-forward, replay