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  1. China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution

    Social changes and state responses

    Edited by Xiaoling Zhang, Yongnian Zheng

    Series: China Policy Series

    In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Mobile Technology and Place

    Edited by Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    An international roster of contributors come together in this comprehensive volume to examine the complex interactions between mobile media technologies and issues of place. Balancing philosophical reflection with empirical analysis, this book examines the specific contexts in which place and...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Studying Mobile Media

    Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

    Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book ...

    Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge

  4. Audiovisual Regulation under Pressure

    Comparative Cases from North America and Europe

    By Thomas Gibbons, Peter Humphreys

    In the face of globalization and new media technologies, can policy makers and regulators withstand deregulatory pressures on the ‘cultural policy toolkit’ for television? This comparative study provides an interdisciplinary investigation of trends in audiovisual regulation, with the focus on...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific

    Gender and The Art of Being Mobile

    By Larissa Hjorth

    Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com

    This century has been marked by the rapid and divergent uptake of mobile telephony throughout the world. The mobile phone has become a poignant symbol for postmodernity and the attendant modes of global mobility and immobility. Most notably, the icon of the mobile phone is most palpable in the...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia

    Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Damien Spry

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    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...

    Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Teletechnologies, Place, and Community

    By Rowan Wilken

    Series: Comedia

    Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and how we relate with one another. Place and community have traditionally formed key concepts...

    Published June 14th 2011 by Routledge

  8. Mobile Technologies

    From Telecommunications to Media

    Edited by Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjorth

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge

  9. Mobile Phone Cultures

    Edited by Gerard Goggin

    What do we really know about mobile phone culture? This provocative and comprehensive collection explores the cultural and media dimensions of mobile phones around the world. An international team of contributors look at how mobiles have been imagined through advertising and social...

    Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge

  10. Webcasting Worldwide

    Business Models of an Emerging Global Medium

    Edited by Louisa S. Ha, Richard J. Ganahl

    Series: Media Management and Economics Series

    Webcasting Worldwide tackles one of the most timely topics in mass communication today—the delivery of audio and video content via the Web, or webcasting—employing a global perspective to explore the subject. It is unique in providing a theoretical framework by which to analyze business models of...

    Published November 12th 2006 by Routledge