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.
This book aims to engage the complex relationship between technology, culture, and socio-economic elements by exploring it in a transnational, yet con...
Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications. Yet while convergence among communications companies has been the major trend in the neoliberal era, the splintering of companies, de-convergence, is now gaining momentum in the communications market.
As the first comprehensive attempt to analyze the wave of de-convergence of the global media system...
Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print,...
In the networked twenty-first century, digital platforms have significantly influenced capital accumulation and digital culture. Platforms, such as social network sites (e.g. Facebook), search engines (e.g. Google), and smartphones (e.g. iPhone), are increasingly crucial because they function as major digital media intermediaries. Emerging companies in non-Western countries have created unique platforms, controlling their own national markets and competing with Western-based platform empires in the global markets. The reality though is that only a handful of Western countries, primarily...
In the networked twenty-first century, digital platforms have significantly influenced capital accumulation and digital culture. Platforms, such as...
Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications. Yet while convergence among communications companies has been the major trend in the neoliberal era, the splintering of companies, de-convergence, is now gaining momentum in the communications market.
As the first comprehensive attempt to analyze the wave of de-convergence of the global media system...
Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print,...
This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games, but also on the significance of social milieu in the development of Asian mobile technologies and gaming culture. It analyzes the growth of the current mobile technologies and mobile gaming not as separate but as continuous developments in tandem with the digital economy. It is of interest to both...
This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry a localized mobile landscape, with parti...
