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Title Global media convergence and cultural transformation : emerging social patterns and characteristics / Dal Yong Jin, editor
Published Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, ©2011
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Contents Super-sized fandom : globalization, popular culture, and the peculiar case of "Miss Mcdonald" / Andrew J. Kirk -- Urban screens and transcultural consumption between South Korea and Australia / Audrey Yue, Sun Jung -- Sharing bites on global screens : the emergence of snack culture / Hudson Moura -- Global media and information ethics : challenges re-examined / D. Ndirangu Wachanga -- Public discourses on the Korean wave in Taiwan / Lihyun Lin -- The emerging media exchange in the cultural regionalization of Asia / Peichi Chung -- New imagined community by cultural participation : a study on Taiwan's digital cultural heritage / Pi-Chun Chang -- New-media-based attention implosion and television publicness in the era of internet-TV convergence / Francis L.F. Lee -- Bearing witness through technology : war and visual culture in a converged world / Yasmin Ibrahim -- Mum's the word : a case study of students' intergenerational new media literacy in Shanghai / Larissa Hjorth -- The electronic pontifices maximi : social networking and the hope of a right to communicate / Aliaa Dakroury -- A picture and a thousand words : visual scaffolding for mobile communications in developing regions / Robert Farrell [and others] -- Going online in the PC graveyard : the sociocultural evolution of Japan's mobile internet / Inkyu Kang -- Exploring the diffusion of mobile phone among Zimbabwean migrants in Botswana / Do Kyun Kim -- The triumph of Shanzhai : no name brand mobile phones and youth identity in China / Mei-Wu, Hongye Li -- Convergence of mobile TV with everyday life1 and culture / Seung-Hyun Lee -- Call centers, India, and new politics : cultural interpretations / Maheswar Satpathy -- Mobile games in China : formation, ferment, and future / Zixue Tai, Haifang Zeng -- Cinema of the gun : science and technology studies and the first person shooter / Sam Hinton -- Playing as producing : convergence culture and localization of EA digital games in Taiwan / Ying-Chia H. Lin -- TV box on the internet : the interplay between politics and market in China / Anthony Fung, Luzhou Li -- Corporate strategies in media convergence : a comparative study of Sony vs. Samsung as transnational cultural industries / Dal Yong Jin -- Fostering innovation in converging audiovisual media services : do mergers and acquisitions really help? / Sergio Sparviero -- The three Cs of key music sector trends today : commodification, concentration and convergence / Paschal Preston, Jim Rogers
Summary "This book aims to engage the complex relationship between technology, culture, and socio-economic elements by exploring it in a transnational, yet contextually grounded, framework, exploring diverse perspectives and approaches, from political economy to cultural studies, and from policy studies to ethnography"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Popular culture
Popular culture and globalization.
Mass media and globalization.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Popular Culture
popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Mass media and globalization
Popular culture
Popular culture and globalization
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Jin, Dal Yong, 1964-
LC no. 2010024363
ISBN 9781609600396
1609600398