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  • Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia

    Critical Perspectives on Japan and the Two Koreas

    by Shawn Bender, Geoffrey Martin Rockwell, Keiji Amano, Keung Yoon Bae, Elizabeth Shim, Weiqi Zhang, Deirdre Sneep, Ana Gascón Marcén, Patrick W Galbraith, Kyooeun Jang ...
    Media technologies for play have become major industries in Japan and South Korea. Even in North Korea, citizens bypass the state to enjoy popular culture. At the same time, corporations and governments encourage people to produce economic values through play.The first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas, this book illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • Raising the Stakes

    E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming

    by T. L. Taylor ...
    How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play.Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television show Starcade (1982–1984) featured ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dying for an iPhone

    Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers

    by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, Ngai Pun ...
    Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world’s most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple.As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Television Studies After TV

    Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

    Edited by Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay ...
    Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats, the emergence of new content production industries outside the US/UK umbrella, and the fragmentation of media audiences ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Games of Empire

    Global Capitalism and Video Games

    by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter ...
    Series Book 29 - Electronic Mediations
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment.In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Great Decoupling

    China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy

    by Nigel Inkster ...
    For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed the Industrial Revolution. The result was the 'Hundred Years of Humiliation', and a long struggle for a modern, yet distinctly Chinese, civilisational identity. Today, technological innovation has returned to the core of national pride and ambition. Since ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Power of the Internet in China

    Citizen Activism Online

    by Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Two Billion Eyes

    The Story of China Central Television

    by Ying Zhu ...
    "The definitive work on Chinese television . . . A pioneering picture of CCTV and its crucial role in the contemporary Chinese political economy" (Robert W. McChesney, author of Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy).As China navigates the murky waters of a "third way" with liberal economic policies under a strict political regime, the surprising battleground for China's future emerges in ... Read more

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  • Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

    Edited by JungBong Choi, Roald Maliangkay ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea’s greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop’s ascendancy, and explores how they relate ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Games and Gaming

    An Introduction to New Media

    by Larissa Hjorth ...
    Series series Berg New Media Series
    The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's Xbox, to platforms such as iPhones and online gaming worlds, the realm of games and their scope have become all-pervasive.The study of games is no longer a niche interest but rather an ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Diasporic Hallyu

    The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

    by Kyong Yoon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular ... Read more

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