[ecrea] New Book Series Announcement - Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia

Routledge and I have agreed to launch a new book series (Routledge 
Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia) since April 2016. This 
will be of interest to some of you.

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN DIGITAL MEDIA AND CULTURE IN ASIA

Editor Dal Yong Jin, Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University

Since the late 1990s, Asia has emerged as one of the major centers for 
the production of digital media and transnational popular culture. While 
the influence of Western culture and technologies has continued in the 
global markets, the Asian cultural and digital industries have developed 
many of their digital technologies, such as social networking sites, 
instant mobile messengers, smartphones and relevant applications. Asian 
cultural industries have also created media/cultural products, such as 
television programs, films, music, and digital games, and expanded the 
export of these products to the global markets. Consequently, Asian 
digital technologies and popular culture consisting of non-Western based 
digital media and cultural forms have rapidly become a global sensation 
wherein Western audiences as well as Asian users enjoy several local 
cultural forms, including popular music and television programs, as well 
as digital technologies.    This new book series critically, culturally, 
and historically contextualizes the nascent development of Asian popular 
culture and digital technologies. The books in this series emphasize 
that digital technologies and culture are fundamentally altering the 
ways in which we communicate. The series examines questions about the 
impact of digital media and society in all its facets, including 
economics, culture and politics.
As its detailed major goals, this book series investigates Asian media, 
popular culture and digital technologies, encompassing all major 
cultural sectors, from television programs to online games, and from pop 
music to smartphones, as well as digital technologies and social media, 
through the use of consistent theoretical and methodological frameworks. 
In particular, the books in this series explore media convergence 
between digital technologies and content to analyze the emergence of 
cutting-edge digital culture, such as webtoons, mobile novels, and 
mobile games.    The books in the series mostly determine the 
possibility of the advancement of non-Western theories and new 
theoretical perspectives in the midst of the continuation of Western 
dominance. In other words, with the growth of local popular culture and 
digital technologies, the books explore whether non-Western perspectives 
challenge central assumptions and arguments developed by Western 
perspectives. They may discuss the integration of Western and 
non-Western perspectives in media and area studies, the uses of theories 
of global comparative research, the relevance of non-Western theories 
and models, and successful and failed efforts at theoretical 
cross-pollination.    We hope to secure the book series as the platform 
of choice for the best scholarship within the field. While our primary 
emphasis will be upon single/joint-authored books, we will consider 
edited collections where the book is brought together by editors in ways 
that result in a coherent work that is both innovative and more than the 
sum of the individual chapters.
The topic areas listed below are illustrative only.

	Asian Video Games
	Digital Storytelling Asia: convergence of popular culture and the 
smartphone
	Political Economy of the Asian App Economy in the Digital Platform Era
	Asian Cinema
	New Media and Asian Society
	Asian Mobile Communication, Culture and Society
	Transnationality and Digital Migration 	Platform Technologies and 
Transformation of Asian Youth Culture
	Digital Asia
	Cyber Security, Intellectual Property, and Digital Labor in Asia
	Asian ICT Industry and Policy
	History of Asian Digital Media
	Asian Youth and Media
	Asian Soft Power
	Construction of Pan-Asian Culture
	Regional Co-production in Cultural Industries
	South Asian Digital Media and Popular Culture
	Korean Pop Music
	Comparison Studies of Korean and Japanese Popular Culture

Please contact me if you have any questions and relevant projects you 
want to submit to this book series

Dal Yong Jin ((djin /at/ sfu.ca)) School of Communication, Simon Fraser University


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