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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.

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Author:   Adrian Athique ,  Emma Baulch
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367671617

ISBN 10:   0367671611
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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

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