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Author:   Youna Kim
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781138092778

ISBN 10:   1138092770
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   27 July 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"1. Minorities and the Digital Media 1.1 From Digital Utopia to the Everyday 1.2 Digital Media and Everyday Life 1.3 Documenting the Undocumented 2. Global Nannies: A Global-Historical Perspective 2.1 Feminization of Migration: Nannies from the Global South 2.2 Why Women Move: Development as Freedom 2.3 Remittances for Development: Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka 2.4 New Nannies of Europe 2.5 Paris: The Other Side of the Global City 3. Mobile Phone for Empowerment?: Work Life, Power and Freedom 3.1 Mobile Phone as Social Capital 3.2 Disposable Life 3.3 Mobile Connection, Disempowerment and Inequality 4. Digital Media for Intimacy?: Family Life and Transnational Mothering 4.1 Intensive Mothering: Gender Inequality Unchanged 4.2 Intimacy and Digital Fatigue 4.3 Morality of Mothering 5. Digital Media and Intergenerational Migration 5.1 Mediated Migration: ""Paris is Beautiful"" 5.2 Digital Media in an Emotional Sphere 5.3 Self-Expression Online: ""I am Doing Nothing"" 6. The Care of the Self: ""As a Woman, Not as a Mother or a Nanny"" 6.1 Self-Sacrifice: Money, Time, Leisure 6.2 Not Part of the Family 6.3 Gossip Community, Sexuality and Erotic Capital 6.4 Digital Media as Affective Practice: ""Doing Things Together"" 7. Racism, Ethnic Media and Home 7.1 Banal Racism in Everyday Life 7.2 Ethnic Media, Ethnic Enclave 7.3 Home Always There: ""I’m Not Going to Stay Here Forever"" 8. Cosmopolitan Hospitality 8.1 Whose Cosmopolitanism? 8.2 Hospitality as an Urgent Response"

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Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France, joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (2005, Routledge); Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (2008, Routledge); Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (2011, Routledge); Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self (2012); The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (2013, Routledge); Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society (2016, Routledge).

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