Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
About the Book Series
The aim of this series has always been to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars, on all aspects of media, culture and social change in Asia. Founded from Melbourne in 2001, we have published over 70 titles and our reach of topics has expanded in step with new paradigms, new media systems and a digital economy that is far removed from our expectations or understanding at the turn of this century. We have appointed an editorial board that reflects the directions of contemporary scholarship, and we invite new proposals that speak to our mission
Editorial Board:
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (Founding Editor)
Emma Baulch, (Co-Editor, SE Asia), Monash Malaysia
Laikwan Pang, (Public Humanities), Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jo Tacchi, (Digital Development and Ethnography), Loughborough in London
Tania Lewis (Eco-Humanities, Food, Digital Consumption), RMIT, Melbourne
Annisa Beta, (Youth Cultures), University of Melbourne
Kate Mirandello Delmo, (Crisis and Strategic Communications), UTS, Sydney
Giang Nguyen-Thu, (Digital Economy), University of Queensland
New proposals are welcome and should be sent in the first instance to the series editor, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, at [email protected].
Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Damien Spry
August 15, 2011
This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion. It explores current ...
Media and Cultural Transformation in China
1st Edition
By Haiqing Yu
May 13, 2011
This book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s ...
Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Ariel Heryanto
November 16, 2009
This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998), a time of great change in Indonesian society more generally. It ...
Television Across Asia: TV Industries, Programme Formats and Globalisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Keane, Albert Moran
July 09, 2009
This book explores the trade in television program formats, which is a crucially important ingredient in the globalisation of culture, in Asia. It examines how much traffic there is in program formats, the principal direction of flow of such traffic, and the economic and cultural significance of ...
Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema: No Film is An Island
1st Edition
Edited
By Gina Marchetti, Tan See Kam
June 02, 2009
In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficult-to-access films have offered new research materials. As Hong Kong film history comes into sharper focus, ...
Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Cole
May 14, 2009
There are many different kinds of sub-national conflicts across Asia, with a variety of causes, but since September 11, 2001 these have been increasingly portrayed as part of the global terrorist threat, to be dealt with by the War on Terror. This major new study examines a wide range of such...
Journalism and Democracy in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Bromley, Angela Romano
May 14, 2009
Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also ...
Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce
1st Edition
Edited
By Wanning Sun
May 14, 2009
The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' -...
Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Nalin Mehta
May 14, 2009
This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which ...
The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press: The Influence of the Protestant Missionary Press in Late Qing China
1st Edition
By Xiantao Zhang
May 14, 2009
This book traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century. It shows how the western missionaries and their evangelical/educational newspapers changed the long-standing traditional practices, styles, content,...
Chinese Documentaries: From Dogma to Polyphony
1st Edition
By Yingchi Chu
April 03, 2009
In China, unlike in Western cinema, documentary film, rather than fiction film, has been the dominant mode since 1949. In recent years, documentary TV programmes have experienced a meteoric rise. Arguing that there is a gradual process of 'democratization' in the media, in which documentaries play ...
Media in Hong Kong: Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005
1st Edition
By Carol P. Lai
April 03, 2009
This book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule. Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive ...