Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia
About the Book Series
This book series explores Asian culture and digital technologies in a socio-economic, cultural, and technological context. It focuses on not only the celebratory achievement of local popular culture through the analysis of media texts, but also the significance of social milieu in the development of local digital technologies. Books in this series emphasize the economic and industrial aspects of popular culture and digital culture to articulate the relationship between cultural industries, the global market, and government, acknowledging that digital technologies and culture are fundamentally altering the ways in which we communicate.
Korea’s Platform Empire: An Emerging Power in the Global Platform Sphere
1st Edition
By Seongcheol Kim, Dal Yong Jin
December 26, 2025
Korea’s Platform Empire explores the evolution of digital platforms in South Korea’s media sphere, and their global political, economic, cultural, and technological influence. With a focus on Korea in the context of the global platform revolution, the book takes a methodical look at the broader ...
East Asian Media Culture in the Age of Digital Platforms: Narratives, Industries, and Audiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Dal Yong Jin, Kyong Yoon
September 11, 2025
Focusing on the convergence of popular culture and digital platforms in the East Asian context, this book delves into the increasing role of East Asia, not only as the largest cultural market but also as one of the most rapidly developing cultural industries in the global platform economy. ...
Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave: The South Korean Government's Instrumentalisation of Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Taeyoung Kim
June 30, 2025
Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave explores how the state instrumentalises cultural industries, despite the bulk of their production and delivery mechanisms becoming subject to the market logic and foreign stakeholders, through an in-depth study of the South Korean government’s ...
Locating North Korea in Communication Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Seungahn Nah, Soomin Seo, Yong-Chan Kim, Dal Yong Jin
February 04, 2025
This volume showcases continuity and change in communication with and within North Korea. By approaching the country from three distinct angles – news media, popular culture, and digital technology – this volume looks at media portrayals of North Korea, at cultural discourses in various media, and ...
Douyin, TikTok and China’s Online Screen Industry: The Rise of Short-Video Platforms
1st Edition
By Chunmeizi Su
December 18, 2024
TikTok has drawn attention from all over the world. Even if you have never used it before, you would still be familiar with its name. Many people have assumed that it is a US-generated platform, and normally awed at its real origin – a Chinese born and operated platform, a sister or parallel ...
Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class: Generation Hashtag
1st Edition
By Lukas Schlogl
August 26, 2024
This book examines the causes of a growing wave of digital activism across developing countries, arguing that it is driven by social change, rather than technological advancement alone. Beginning with an investigation into the modernization of ‘middle-income countries’ and its ramifications for ...
Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Seok-Kyeong Hong, Dal Yong Jin
May 31, 2023
This book observes and analyzes transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing ...
Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture
1st Edition
By Kyong Yoon
August 29, 2022
Drawing on vivid ethnographic field studies of youth on the transnational move, across Seoul, Toronto, and Vancouver, this book examines transnational flows of Korean youth and their digital media practices. This book explores how digital media are integrated into various forms of transnational ...
Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Dal Yong Jin
August 29, 2022
This book offers a thorough investigation of the recent surge of webtoons and manga/animation as the sources of transmedia storytelling for popular culture, not only in East Asia but in the wider global context. An international team of experts employ a unique theoretical framework of media ...
Digital Transactions in Asia: Economic, Informational, and Social Exchanges
1st Edition
Edited
By Adrian Athique, Emma Baulch
December 18, 2020
This book presents a comprehensive overview of transactional forms of the digital across the Asian region by addressing the platforms and infrastructures that shape the digital experience. Contributors argue that each and every encounter mediated by the digital carries with it a functional exchange...
Digital Media and Risk Culture in China’s Financial Markets
1st Edition
By Zhifei Mao
September 30, 2020
This book analyzes the risk cultures in China that have emerged from the entanglement of new communication technologies and financial markets, examining the role that digital media play in Asian modernity and offering an alternative narrative to that of the West. The book illustrates the impact of ...
Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler
September 30, 2020
This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the...