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Multinational media companies increasingly look to China as a highly important market for the future, but with what degree of confidence should they do so? Media in China is about a new kind of revolution in China - a revolution in which rapidly commercializing media industries confront slow-changing power relations between political, social and economic spheres. This interdisciplinary collection draws on the expertise of industry professionals, academic experts and cultural critics. It offers a variety of perspectives on audio-visual industries in the world's largest media market. In particular, the contributors examine television, film, music, commercial and political advertising, and new media such as the internet and multimedia. These essays explore evolving audience demographies, new patterns of media reception in regional centres, and the gradual internationalization of media content and foreign investment in China's broadcasting industries. This book will of use to students and professionals involved in media and communication, as well as anyone interested in contemporary China.

This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion. It explores current media practices and their innovative, transformative and disruptive uses at the local, the regional, the national, and the global level. In particular, it analyses mobile media not as a discrete object, but rather as part of a dynamic communication and information environment in which human-object relations are constantly reconfigured. It covers key theoretical and conceptual themes in youth mobile media research focusing on social, cultural and political aspects, including coverage of key themes such as regulation and technology, practices, pedagogies, aesthetics, social change, and representations of mobile youth. The book includes new accounts of recent research into the uses of mobile media by young people, and how these are situated in a broader socio-political context. Case studies include mobile panics in Australia (the notorious Kings of Wirrabee sexual assault case) and Japan (the scandals of high school girls as teenage prostitutes) in which mobile media use has had significant impact. This book offers an up-to-date examination of the influence of information communication technologies on young people’s lives in the region. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Dean of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her most recent publications include Global Media Studies: Theories and Approaches ; Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism and Social Change; The State of China Atlas ; and Little Friends: Children’s Film and Media Culture in China . Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Practices, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. Damien Spry is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia. Part I Introduction – Why mobility matters: young people and media competency in the Asia-Pacific - Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Part II 1. Angels and devils: youth mobile media politics, fear, hope and policy in Japan and Australia - Damien Spry 2. Japanese mobile youth in the 2000s - Misa Matsuda 3. ‘Your phone makes you, you’: exploring the youth script in teen magazine representations of mobile media - Sun Sun Lim 4. The traditional meets the technological: mobile navigations of desire and intimacy - Cara Wallis Part III 5. The price of being mobile: youth, gender and mobile media - Larissa Hjorth 6. The city, self and connections: ‘transyouth’ and urban social networking in Seoul - Jaz Hee-jeong Choi 7. The representation of mobile youth in the post-colonial techno-nation of Korea - Kyongwon Yoon Part IV 8. Official and unofficial mobile media in Australia: youth, panics, innovation - Gerard Goggin 9. Mobile design: giving voice to children and young people - Theresa Anderson

This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and accelerate the emergence of a relatively affluent urban leisure-reading market. It argues that this reinvention of Chinese print media vis-à-vis the creation of a post-socialist taste (class) culture is an essential part of the cultural and affective transformations in contemporary Chinese society, and demonstrates how the reinvention of such taste culture effectively creates, through new kinds of reading materials and carefully demarcated target audiences, a middle-class civility that serves as the locus of the new niche media market.