Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific: Gender and the Art of Being Mobile

by Larissa Hjorth

Book Overview

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 Asia-Pacific in which a diversity of innovation and consumer practices - reflecting gender and locality - can be found. Through the lens of gendered mobile...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415690110
• ISBN13: 9780415690119
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"