Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia-Pacific region has been pivotal in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media technologies and through social and mobile media we can see emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by the local.
The six case studies that inform this book-Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai,...
Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal intera...
