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Title Youth, media and culture in the Asia Pacific region / edited by Usha M. Rodrigues and Belinda Smaill
Published Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 240 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Asia Pacific modernities: thinking through youth media locales / Belinda Smaill -- pt. I. Youth, consumption and the borders of culture: fields of analysis -- Sells like teen spirit: business, technology and the "post-Fordist" youth market / Bill Osgerby -- Youth and online morality: negotiating social differentiation and civic engagement in China / Ian Weber -- Broadcast yourself: moral panic, youth culture and internet studies / Catherine Driscoll and Melissa Gregg -- Youth media directory / Usha M. Rodrigues -- pt. II. Media performances: subjectivity, representation and engagement -- China's super girl: mobile youth cultures and new sexualities / Audrey Yue and Haiqing Yu -- Bad girls go digital: national selves, cyber selves, super selves / Chris Hudson -- "bro 'town -- The Simpsons of the South Pacific": how global cultural icons bring meaning to the local / Philippa K. Smith and Katalin Lustyik -- pt. III. Media uses and communities -- "c'mon commodify us!": commodity fetishism and resistant practice in the Bandung DIY hardcore scene / Sean Martin-Iverson -- Cool consumption: rasta, punk and Bollywood on the streets of Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Kolkata, India / Harriot Beazley and Kabita Chakraborty -- East Asian mobile youth cultures / Damien Spry
Summary Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region presents an analysis of youth media activities in a diverse, but geographically connected Asia Pacific region. The region, which is spatially connected by its colonial and imperial past, is becoming a significant player in the globalized world. In this context, youth situated in these economically, politically and socially structured communities are redefining their locales through their patterns of media use. The discourse of 'youth' in thi ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Mass media and youth -- Asia
Youth -- Asia -- Social conditions
Cultural studies.
Media studies.
Age groups: adolescents.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Mass media and youth
Youth -- Social conditions
Massenmedien
Jugend
Kulturanthropologie
Asia
Pazifischer Raum
Form Electronic book
Author Rodrigues, Usha M.
Smaill, Belinda.
LC no. 2008399246
ISBN 9781443810395
1443810398