1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of Migrancy and Media -- 3. Memory -- 4. Race -- 5. Green Movement -- 6. Conclusion.This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are …
Preface -- New Media and Economy -- New Media and Culture -- New Media and Daily Life -- New Media and Public Political Participation -- Negative Sides of New Media.Starting from a history of new media, this book presents the development of network technology and media applications in China, while also examining the relationship between new media and politics, economy, culture, lifestyle, tradi…
Part 1: Concepts and debates -- 1 -- Introduction: The policy implications of virtual work; Pamela Meil and Vassil Kirov -- 2. Where did Online Platforms come from? The virtualization of work organization and the new policy challenges it raises; Ursula Huws -- Part 2: Measuring virtual work -- 3. Crowd employment and ICT-based mobile work – new employment forms in Europe; Irene Mandl and Maur…
Citizenship, Democracy, European Union -- Normative Public Sphere Theories -- European Public Sphere -- Visibility of EU Citizens in the European Public Sphere.Stefanie Walter examines the visibility of European Union citizens in the mass mediated European public sphere and argues that it can help facilitate an exchange between decision-makers and ordinary citizens. The results show that in com…
Understanding International Communications -- International Communications in Western Broadcast Media -- International Communications in China’s Broadcast Media -- How to Develop China’s International Communication of Broadcast Media? -- References.This book discusses the effect of communication strategies in the course of China’s national image building from both a theoretical and a prac…
Introduction -- Precarity within Digital Media -- Precarity through Digital media.The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity. Change arising from digital developments takes place on micro-, meso- and meta-levels and have always social implications. Concepts such as Social Media, eHealth and Digital Capitalism, Informational Capitalism …
Introduction -- 1. A History of the Value accorded to Work -- 2. The Immense Expectations attached to Work -- 3. The Disappointment of Expectations as a Result of the Transformation of Work -- 4. The Meaning of Work through the Lens of Generational Difference -- 5. The Coexistence of Generations at Work.This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. T…
Part I: Emergence of Asian Mobile Games -- 1: The Emergence of Asian Mobile Games: Definitions, Industries, and Trajectories -- 2: Games of Being Mobile: The Unruly Rise of Mobile Gaming in Japan -- 3: The Asian Mobile Gaming Marketplace: Context, Opportunities and Barriers -- Part II: Mobile Game Politics and Digital Economy -- 4: Mobile game regulation in South Korea: A case study of the Shut…
Preface -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Print Media, Electronic Media, Digital Media and Social Change in Thailand -- 3: Thai Buddhism, the Mass Media and Culture Change in Thailand -- 4: Practicing Postmodern Journalism in Thailand -- 6: Emotional and gender literacy on Thai Media -- 7: Democracy, online communication, and the right to freedom of expression in Thailand -- 8: Advertising, Controls, an…
Introduction -- “Private sphere” of Minority Cultures -- Social Misunderstanding -- Cultural Theory -- Conclusion.This book, stemming from an international conference, mainly explores the “private sphere” of minority cultures. To date, insufficient attention has been paid to ethnic minorities’ sense of subjecthood, e.g. their construction and articulation of self-understanding formed …