... in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji. By Jona­ t­han Abel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 327 pp. ISBN: 978517910662. Jon­a­than Abel s The New Real comb­ ines fas­cin­ ati­ ng (mi­cro)hist­ ori­ ­cal data with a care­ful the­o­riz­at­ion. The book inv­est­ig­ ates how new med­ ia...

.... Abel sug­gests that the game port­rays a world in which hum­ an re­lat­ions should be more imp­ ort­ant than tech­ nolo­ ­gies, but it is the techn­ ol­ogi­c­ al gadg­ ets thems­ elves that fos­ter bonds of hum­ an con­nec­tion. Chapter 6 uses an anal­ys­is of emoji to ex­plore the role of the hu­man...

...). The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji. By Jona­ t­han Abel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 327 pp. ISBN: 978517910662. Jon­a­than Abel s The New Real com­bines fasc­ i­nati­ ng (mic­ ro)his­tori­ ­cal data with a care­ful the­o­riz­at­ion. The book...

...; diligence; morality; discipline; and respect for the law, for tradition. and obviously for the royal institution and its teachings. Thai students around the country are forced to repeat them every morning. The Ministry of Culture has even created a set of emojis for the popular mobile-phone application LINE...