Digital Transactions in Asia: Economic, Informational, and Social Exchanges

by Adrian Athique (Editor), Emma Baulch (Editor)

Overview

This book presents a comprehensive overview of transactional forms of the digital across the Asian region by addressing the platforms and infrastructures that shape the digital experience. Contributors argue that each and every encounter mediated by the digital carries with it a functional exchange, but at the same time each transaction also implies an exchange based on social relationships for the digital age. In capturing the digital revolution through case studies of economic, informational, and social exchanges from across the larger Asian region, the book offers a richly contextualized and comparative account of the pervasive nature of the digital as both a medium for action and a medium of record.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429757020
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/07/2019
Series:	Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	316
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Adrian Athique is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia

Emma Baulch is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Soccial Sciences, Monash University Malaysia and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Digital Transactions in Asia

Part 1: Platforms, Infrastructure and Regulation

Chapter 2: Zhejiang's Digital Dream

Chapter 3: Information Infrastructure and Platform Anxieties in India

Chapter 4: Recalibrating China in a Time of Platforms

Chapter 5: Demonetization: India's Year of Living Digitally

Chapter 6: Another Dimension: 3D Printing and Intellectual Property in Asia

Chapter 7: Digital Rights in Asia: Rethinking Regional and International Agendas

Part 2: Financial, Social and Cultural Transactions

Chapter 8: Embedding Digital Money Amongst Chinese Migrant Factory Workers

Chapter 9: The Digital State: A Tale of Tweets and Foods in Contemporary India

Chapter 10: ‘Skill-Makers’ in the Platform Economy: Transacting Digital Labour

Chapter 11: Self As Enterprise: Disability and Digital Entrepreneurship in China

Chapter 12: Resilient Love: Intimacy, Surveillance and (dis)Trust in Metro Manila

Chapter 13: Chinese Transcreators, Webtoons and the Korean Digital Wave

Chapter 14: Insurrectionary Tendencies: The Viral Fever Comedies and Indian Media

Chapter 15: Hijabers on Instagram: Visualising the Ideal Muslim Woman