From
Peter White
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia
M/C - Media and Culture
is proud to present issue one in volume ten of
M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
'mobile' - Edited by Larissa Hjorth and Olivia Khoo
Convergence has become part of burgeoning mobile media. The mobile phone
has come of age. As an integral component of visual media cultures,
camera phone practices are arguably both extending and creating emerging
ways of seeing and representing. In media footage of late, camera phones
have been heralded as providing everyday users with the possibility of
self- expression and voice in the once unidirectional model of mass
media. In addition, the "exchange" and gift-giving economy underpinning
mobile phone practices is further enunciated by the camera phone's
ability to "share"
moments between intimates (and strangers) through various contextual
frameworks and archives from MMS, blogs, virtual community sites to
actual face-to-face digital storytelling.
This is particularly the case in the Asia-Pacific region, where mobile
practices in locations such as Tokyo and Seoul have brought about new
forms of media use; for example, mobile phones are increasing being
deployed to connect to, among other things, Web 2.0's burgeoning
landscape of social software. In much of the rhetoric of current media
criticism, users are being interpellated as prosumers (producers plus
consumers), but what is the reality behind this so-called agency? Do
users really feel empowered by the structures of immediacy connected to
user-generated content (UGC)? Are they 'liberated' by the multi-media
functions of the mobile phone or is the increasing convergence of mobile
media causing more complications than pleasures?
This issue of M/C Journal explores the role of convergent mobile
technologies in the Asia-Pacific region. The issue explores the socio-
cultural particularities of various adaptations of mobile media, from
case studies on mobile communication in the Asia Pacific, to
cross-cultural analyses of the transborder flows of mobile media
production, representation and consumption.
Feature Article
"Approaching the Mobile Culture of East Asia"
- Jaz Hee-jeong Choi
Jaz Choi's paper provides a wonderful introduction to the culture of
mobile technologies in East Asia, focusing largely on South Korea, China
and Japan. She problematises the rhetoric surrounding technological
fetishism and techno-orientalism in definitions of 'mobile' and
'digital' East Asia and raises important questions regarding the
transformation and future of East Asia's mobile cultures.
Articles
"Mobile Intimacy: Theories on the Economics of Emotion with Examples
from Asia"
- Gerard C. Raiti
"The Technological Gaze: Event Construction and the Mobile Body"
- Yasmin Ibrahim
"Media Reporting, Mobility and Trauma"
- Collette Snowden and Kerry Green
"Texting Love: An Exploration of Text Messaging as a Medium for Romance
in the Philippines"
- Randy Jay C. Solis
"Modernity and the Mobile Phone: Exploring Tensions about Dating and Sex
in Indonesia"
- Lee Humphreys and Thomas Barker
"Superstition or Modernity?: On the Invented Tradition of Lucky Mobile
Phone Numbers in China"
- Li Li
"Understanding the Design of Mobile Social Networking: The Example of
EzMoBo in Taiwan"
- Chih-Hui Lai
"Going Live: Converging Mobile Technology and the Sociability of the
iGeneration"
- Mariann Hardey
"Mobility and Displacement: Refugees' Mobile Media Practices in
Immigration Detention"
- Linda Leung
"Staying Safe and Guilty Pleasures: Tourists and CB Radio in the
Australian Outback"
- Peter B. White and Naomi White
Photo Essay
"Zeitgeist"
- Andrew Johnson
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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2007:
'adapt': article deadline 9 March 2007, release date 2 May 2007
'complex': article deadline 4 May 2007, release date 27 June 2007
'home': article deadline 29 June 2007, release date 22 August 2007
'error': article deadline 24 August 2007, release date 17 October
2007
'vote': article deadline 19 October 2007, release date 12 December
2007
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M/C Journal 10.1 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still
available.
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