Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Media technologies for work and play in East Asia : critical perspectives on Japan and the two Koreas / edited by Micky Lee, Peichi Chung
Published Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Foreword 1: Media for Work and Play in a Pandemic World -- Foreword 2: The Development of Information and Communication Technologies in South Korea after World War II -- Introduction -- Part I: Gender Online and Digital Sex -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Sharing, Selling, Striving: The Gendered Labour of Female Social Entrepreneurship in South Korea -- 2.'For Japan Only?' Crossing and Re-inscribing Boundaries in the Circulation of Adult Computer Games
Part II: Governance and Regulations -- Introduction to Part II -- 3. The New Personal Data Protection in Japan: Is It Enough? -- 4. Phenomena and Phobia through Pokemon GO: An Analysis of the Reactions on the Augmented Reality Game in Japan -- 5. How Do Materiality and Corporeality Inform the Intellectual Property Debate? A Case Study of Pirated Media in North Korea -- 6. Hyperreal Peninsula: North Korea's Nuclear Cinema and South Korea's Digital Revolution -- Part III: Techno-identity and Digital Labour Condition -- Introduction to Part III
7. 'Too Many Koreans': Esports Biopower and South Korean Gaming Infrastructure -- 8. South Korea's Esports Industry in Northeast Asia: History, Ecosystem and Digital Labour -- 9. Representations of Play: Pachinko in Popular Media -- 10. The Work of Care in the Age of Feeling Machines -- Conclusion -- Index -- Back cover
Summary This book is the first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas which illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations between the three countries through their development and use of digital technologies, drawing from political economy, cultural studies, and technology studies
Subject Mass media and culture -- Korea (North)
Mass media and culture -- Korea (South)
Mass media and culture -- Japan
Mass media and technology -- Korea (North)
Mass media and technology -- Korea (South)
Mass media and technology -- Japan
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Mass media and technology
Mass media and culture
Korea (South)
Korea (North)
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Lee, Micky, editor
Chung, Peichi, editor
ISBN 9781529213386
152921338X
9781529213379
1529213371