Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia

Youna Kim is Associate Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris and is the author of Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005).

• Introduction: The Media and Asian Transformations Youna Kim Part 1: Media Consumption in Globalization 1. Experiencing Globalization: Global TV, Reflexivity and the Lives of Young Korean Women Youna Kim 2. Muslim Media and Youth in Globalizing Southeast Asia Pam Nilan 3. Reimagining Tradition: Globalization in India from MTV to Hanuman Vamsee Juluri 4. Reinventing Nationalism: The Politics of Malaysian Idol on Culture and Identity in Postcolonial Malaysia Joanne B.Y. Lim 5. Media Consumption and Incomplete Globalization: How Chinese Interpret Border-crossing Hong Kong TV Dramas Anthony Y.H. Fung Part 2. The Rise of Asian Media: Regional Consumption 6. East Asian Pop Culture: Layers of Communities Chua Beng Huat 7. Discovering Japanese TV Drama through Online Chinese Fans: Narrative Reflexivity, Implicit Therapy and the Question of the Social Imaginary Kelly Hu 8. Dialogue with the Korean Wave: Japan and its Postcolonial Discontents Koichi Iwabuchi 9. Non-resident Consumption of Indian Cinema in Asia Adrian M. Athique 10. Bollywood in Bangladesh: Transcultural Consumption in Globalizing South Asia Zakir Hossain Raju Part 3. Everyday Life in Transition: Contesting Identity 11. Consuming and Producing (Post)modernity: Youth and Popular Culture in Thailand Ubonrat Siriyuvasak 12. Consuming Sex and the City: Young Taiwanese Women Contesting Sexuality Yachien Huang 13. Cybercute Politics: The Internet Cyworld and Gender Performativity in Korea Larissa Hjorth 14. Cultural Migrants and the Construction of the Imagined West: The Japanese Youth Yuiko Fujita

"The essays are presented in three parts: media globalization and everyday life, Asian regional media and transnational consumption, and everyday cultural practices and identity. They offer new and grounded explorations of some of the important themes that have recently engaged scholars of global media and culture, and together they constitute an exciting and important contribution to the field."--R. Harindranath, Asian Journal of Communication, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 2010