Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia Contributor(s): Kim, Youna (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415962455 ISBN-13: 9780415962452 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people's everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia. The book argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization, and explores the way the profusion of the media today is reworking people's identities at individual, national, regional, and global levels. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies |
Dewey: 302.231 |
LCCN: 2008007498 |
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 250 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
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Publisher Description: This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization. The profusion of the media today, with new imaginations, new choices and contradictions, generates a critical condition for reflexivity engaging everyday people to have a resource for the learning of self, culture and society in a new light. Media culture is creating new connections, new desires and threats, and the identities of people are being reworked at individual, national, regional and global levels. Within historically specific social conditions and contexts of the everyday, the chapters seek to provide a diversity of experiences and understandings of the place of the media in different Asian locations. This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people's everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia. |