[ecrea] new book: Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture

NEW BOOK:  Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture
We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book "Asian
Perspectives on Digital Culture
Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts" available from Routledge
https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138842328  and Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Asian-Perspectives-Digital-Culture-Internationalizing/dp/113884232X

"In Asia, amidst its varied levels of economic development and diverse
cultural traditions and political regimes, the Internet and mobile
communications are increasingly used in every aspect of life. Yet the
analytical frames used to understand the impact of digital media on Asia
predominantly originate from the Global North, neither rooted in Asia's
rich philosophical traditions, nor reflective of the sociocultural
practices of this dynamic region. This volume examines digital phenomena
and its impact on Asia by drawing on specifically Asian perspectives.
Contributors apply a variety of Asian theoretical frameworks including
guanxi, face, qing, dharma and karma. With chapters focusing on emerging
digital trends in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines,
Singapore, and Taiwan, the book presents compelling and diverse research
on identity and selfhood, spirituality, social networking, corporate
image, and national identity as shaped by and articulated through digit
  al communication platforms."
Table of Contents
1. A (Digital) Giant Awakens - Invigorating Media Studies with Asian
Perspectives, Sun Sun Lim and Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano
2. Face and Online Social Networking, Sun Sun Lim and Iccha Basnyat
3. My Letter to Heaven via Email - Translocal Piety and Mediated Selves
in Urban Marian Piety in the Philippines, Manuel Victor J. Sapitula and
Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano
4. Exploring Confucianism in Understanding Face-ism in Online Dating
Sites of Eastern and Western Cultures, Michael Prieler
5. Credibility, Reliability, and Reciprocity: Mobile Communication,
Guanxi, and Protest Mobilization in Contemporary China, Jun Liu
6. The Local Sociality and Emotion of Jeong in Koreans' Media Practices,
Kyong Yoon
7. Ritual and Communal Connection in Mobile Phone Communication:
Representations of Kapwa, Bayanihan and "People Power" in the
Philippines, Cheryll Soriano and Sun Sun Lim
8. What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India? Discursive
Constructions of CSR as Sarva Loka Hitam in Online Narratives of
Companies in India, Ganga S Dhanesh
9. Shadow and Soul: Stereoscopic Phantasmagoria and Holographic
Immortalization in Transnational Chinese Pop, Liew Kai Khiun
10. Tweets in the Limelight: The Contested Relationship between
(Dis)harmony and Newsworthiness, Yenn Lee
11. Asian modernity and the post human future: Some reflections, T T
Sreekumar
12. Re-Orienting Global Digital Cultures, Gerard Goggin

This book represents our modest contribution to internationalizing media
studies. With much thanks to all our contributors, colleagues and mentors!

Sun Sun Lim, Dept of Communication & New Media, National University of
Singapore
Cheryll Soriano, Dept of Communication, De La Salle University, Philippines

Jun

Jun Liu, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
Centre for Communication and Computing

Department of Media, Cognition and Communication,
University of Copenhagen
Denmark

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