...Jianqi Wang News Media and New Media . Edited by Madanmohan Rao . The AsiaPacific Internet Handbook Episode V. Singapore : Eastern Universities Press , 2003 . xv , 549 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S A S I A : C O M...

... a treatise on social media. Jin does briefly explore the link between smartphones and software (pp. 159–64), but does not engage with the cultural implications of particular social media, or their tie-in with hardware. The chapters are of almost equal length and appear to have been written...

...Jinying Li 20 Henry Jenkins , Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide ( New York : New York University Press , 2006 ) , 3. Neither media mix nor post-Fordism is unique to Japan. Though Steinberg's book has clearly avoided “Japan-centrism,” its historical...

... of occupation legislation that continue to critically impact the global present. Dorman ambitiously situates the early postwar entanglement of new religions with the public media in the middle of the long twentieth century, but without imbuing it with clearly distinctive characteristics. If the occupation...

...Jiangtao Harry Gu Queer Media in China . By Hongwei Bao . London : Routledge , 2021 . 254 pp. ISBN: 9780367279455 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Hongwei Bao's Queer Media in China documents emerging queer “community media” practices...

...Yi Gu Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Media Culture . By Shengqing Wu . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . 384 pp. ISBN: 9780231192217 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Meticulously researched and beautifully produced, Photo...

...Paul Clark The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media . By Nathan Shockey . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . xvi, 336 pp. ISBN: 9780231194280 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Matthew H. Sommer Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China . By Ting Zhang . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2020 . xi, 256 pp. ISBN: 9780295747156 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Ting Zhang's...

... from the ecosystems that other (global) mega-platforms create. Engaging with the insights from recent studies of platforms and utilizing empirical media analysis, I argue that Korean webtoon platforms demonstrate the continuing and intensifying dependency of art on platforms—a process that I call...

...Tuan Hoang Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market . By Giang Nguyen-Thu . New York : Routledge , 2019 . xii, 152 pp. ISBN: 9781138069022 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Giang Nguyen-Thu has written the deepest study about...

...Miriam Castorina Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012 . By Gaoheng Zhang . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2019 . 296 pp. ISBN: 9781442630437 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Migration...

...Sumit Ganguly Politics and State-Society Relations in India . By James Manor . London : Hurst & Company , 2017 . xviii, 366 pp. ISBN: 9781849047180 (cloth). Political Communication and Mobilisation: The Hindi Media in India . By Taberez Ahmed Neyazi . Cambridge : Cambridge...

...Giang Nguyen-Thu Abstract June 2018 was an intense time in Vietnam when one saw the role of social media in revealing and facilitating the (dis)congruity between connectivism, collectivism, and conservatism. On June 12, the National Assembly of Vietnam passed the controversial Cybersecurity Law...

...Jennifer H. Munger Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 At the AAS in Asia meetings in Seoul in the summer of 2017, a group of analysts interested in media explored the notion that the market and the state are two ends of a continuum when it comes to censorship...

...K. Anis Ahmed Abstract Mainstream media faces challenges in developed democracies like never before. On one hand, seemingly “free” digital (including social media) options are eroding the market for print drastically. Ads are not so much shifting from print to digital, but apparently simply...

...Richard D. Lambert New Lamps for Aladdin: Mass Media in Developing Societies . By J. C. Mathur . Calcutta : Orient Longmans Ltd. , 1965 . xii, 138 pp. Appendices. Rs. 7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 315 Twayne series, is intended...

... in the Age of Social Media . Edited by Sangjoon Lee and Abé Markus Nornes . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2015 . 276 pp. ISBN: 9780472072521 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017...

...Jonathan Abel Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture . By Seth Jacobowitz . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2015 . xii, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780674088412 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Elmo Gonzaga Abstract Tracing the entangled genealogies of spaces of media spectatorship, modes of visual perception, and practices of capitalist consumption, this article explores how the shift in Manila's main commercial street from Calle Escolta in the 1930s to Avenida Rizal in the 1960s reveals...

... to see in it, you can academically approach anime from numerous angles. Furthermore, contemporary anime is increasingly and inextricably entangled with other media, such as manga, videogames, novels, and live-action films in terms of content, distribution, and consumption. As such, it is very difficult...