Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics

Dal Yong Jin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-037-2, ISBN13: 9781609600372, ISBN10: 1609600371, EISBN13: 9781609600396

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Jin, Dal Yong. "Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics." IGI Global, 2011. 1-476. Web. 19 Jun. 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-037-2

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Jin, D. Y. (2011). Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics (pp. 1-476). doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-037-2

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Jin, Dal Yong. "Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics." 1-476 (2011), accessed June 19, 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-037-2

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New media and technology are firmly embedded in our contemporary society and culture. The application of the internet and mobile communications, including online gaming, has made a huge impact on political participation, business, education, and social relations.

Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics aims to engage the complex relationship between technology, culture, and socio-economic elements by exploring it in a transnational, yet contextually grounded, framework. This book explores diverse perspectives and approaches, from political economy to cultural studies, and from policy studies to ethnography, In order to reflect varied perspectives on the convergence of culture and new media technology.

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Super-Sized Fandom: Globalization, Popular Culture, and the Peculiar Case of “Miss Mcdonald” (pages 1-14)

Andrew J. Kirk (Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, USA)

This chapter looks at “A Day in the Life of Miss McDonald”—a photography exhibit produced in the Philippines and disseminated online—to discuss how globalization, co... Sample PDF | More details...

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Urban Screens and Transcultural Consumption between South Korea and Australia (pages 15-36)

Audrey Yue (University of Melbourne, Australia), Sun Jung (Victoria University, Australia)

This chapter examines urban screens as sites of media convergence and transcultural consumption. Using two case studies in Melbourne (Australia) and Songdo (Incheon,... Sample PDF | More details...

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Sharing Bites on Global Screens: The Emergence of Snack Culture (pages 37-49)

Hudson Moura (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Snack culture is the new phenomenon that shrinks media cultural products and can be easily shared on social networks of the Internet. Thus, it can be consumed in a r... Sample PDF | More details...

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Global Media and Information Ethics: Challenges Re-Examined (pages 50-62)

D. Ndirangu Wachanga (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA)

Any meaningful debate on global media and information ethics is burdened with the complexity of dissecting various disjunctive dynamics that characterize the complex... Sample PDF | More details...

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Public Discourses on the Korean Wave in Taiwan (pages 63-79)

Lihyun Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Recently, Korean dramas have won popularity in East Asia and provoked public discussions in newspaper forums in Taiwan. This chapter analyzes how the interpretive co... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Emerging Media Exchange in the Cultural Regionalization of Asia (pages 80-93)

Peichi Chung (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

This chapter focuses on the emerging media regionalization that takes place in Asia in 2000s. Japan and Hong Kong used to be the dominant cultural exporters commerci... Sample PDF | More details...

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New Imagined Community by Cultural Participation: A Study on Taiwan’s Digital Cultural Heritage (pages 94-105)

Pi-Chun Chang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

Although the preservation of cultural heritage has always been a primary task of cultural policy in many countries, the idea of combining digital technology and cult... Sample PDF | More details...

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New-Media-Based Attention Implosion and Television Publicness in the Era of Internet-TV Convergence (pages 107-122)

Francis L. F. Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

This chapter discusses how television captures and organizes the attention of the mass public in the age of media convergence. It is argued that media proliferation... Sample PDF | More details...

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Bearing Witness through Technology: War and Visual Culture in a Converged World (pages 123-138)

Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

The convergence of technologies brings a two-fold phenomenon into our technologically mediated world. Firstly, mobile technologies have enabled the recording of war... Sample PDF | More details...

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Mum’s the Word: A Case Study of Students’ Intergenerational New Media Literacy in Shanghai (pages 139-151)

Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Australia)

In 2009, for the first time, Internet penetration rates in China have surpassed the global average level with over 298 million users (CINIC 2009). In this burgeoning... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Electronic Pontifices Maximi: Social Networking and the Hope of a Right to Communicate (pages 152-164)

Aliaa Dakroury (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Drawing from the work of Canadian political economist Harold Innis, as well as the French activist, Jean d’Arcy—the father of the right to communicate, this chapter... Sample PDF | More details...

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A Picture and A Thousand Words: Visual Scaffolding for Mobile Communications in Developing Regions (pages 165-178)

Robert Farrell (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Catalina Danis (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Thomas Erickson (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Jason Ellis (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Jim Christensen (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Mark Bailey (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Wendy A. Kellogg (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA)

Mobile communication is a key enabler for economic, social and political change in developing regions of the world. The authors argue that engaging citizens in devel... Sample PDF | More details...

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Going Online in the PC Graveyard: The Sociocultural Evolution of Japan’s Mobile Internet (pages 180-199)

Inkyu Kang (Penn State University, USA)

This chapter explores how the keitai (mobile) Internet has come to dominate Japan, marginalizing the PC-based Internet. The discussion focuses on the country’s cultu... Sample PDF | More details...

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Exploring the Diffusion of Mobile Phone among Zimbabwean Migrants in Botswana (pages 200-212)

Do Kyun Kim (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

From the early 2000s, the population mobility from Zimbabwe has drastically increased due to the collapse of the national economy and political instability. While th... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Triumph of Shanzhai: No Name Brand Mobile Phones and Youth Identity in China (pages 213-232)

Mei Wu (University of Macau, China), Hongye Li (University of Macau, China)

This chapter attempts to explore the connection between the popularity of shanzhai (no-name brand) mobile phones among urban youth and their social characteristics i... Sample PDF | More details...

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Convergence of Mobile TV with Everyday Life1 and Culture (pages 233-250)

Seung-Hyun Lee (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)

Mobile communication technology has become one of the most popular technologies, profoundly associated with many users’ everyday life. Mobile communication technolog... Sample PDF | More details...

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Call Centers, India, and a New Politics: Cultural Interpretations (pages 251-274)

Maheswar Satpathy (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

The establishment of myriad Customer service Centers, or as colloquially known, Call Centers have become a much accepted reality now in India. The country known for... Sample PDF | More details...

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Mobile Games in China: Formation, Ferment, and Future (pages 276-295)

Zixue Tai (University of Kentucky, USA), Haifang Zeng (Shanghai University, China)

This chapter presents a critical analysis of China’s nascent but fast-evolving mobile game market. Through a penetrating examination of the historical evolution of t... Sample PDF | More details...

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Cinema of the Gun: Science and Technology Studies and the First Person Shooter (pages 296-310)

Sam Hinton (University of Canberra, Australia)

Games, like other technological artifacts, do not fall mysteriously from orbit. They are constructed by humans within a matrix of social, economic and cultural condi... Sample PDF | More details...

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Playing as Producing: Convergence Culture and Localization of EA Digital Games in Taiwan (pages 311-325)

Ying-Chia H. Lin (Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

The main goal of this chapter is to explore the dynamics and interactions between foreign producers, media technologies, and local consumers in the process of global... Sample PDF | More details...

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TV Box on the Internet: The Interplay between Politics and Market in China (pages 327-339)

Anthony Fung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Luzhou Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

With the advancement of media technologies, traditional media and new media converge at a pace faster than ever globally. In the People’s Republic of China (PRC), no... Sample PDF | More details...

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Corporate Strategies in Media Convergence: A Comparative Study of Sony vs. Samsung as Transnational Cultural Industries (pages 340-353)

Dal Yong Jin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)

This study is a historical documentation of the recent trends of Sony’s and Samsung’s engagement in the cultural industries mainly by examining convergence between t... Sample PDF | More details...

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Fostering Innovation in Converging Audiovisual Media Services: Do Mergers and Acquisitions Really Help? (pages 354-372)

Sergio Sparviero (Dublin City University, Ireland)

The digitalization of media content and communication processes has been used as the main justification for an important turn in the design of regulations affecting... Sample PDF | More details...

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The Three Cs of Key Music Sector Trends Today: Commodification, Concentration and Convergence (pages 373-396)

Paschal Preston (Dublin City University, Ireland), Jim Rogers (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Drawing upon a recent examination of contemporary trends in the music industry, this chapter explores the evolving relationships between new digital media technologi... Sample PDF | More details...

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