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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia

Private Chat to Public Communication

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Editors:
  1. Ran Wei

    1. University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

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  • Presents research on the largest groups of smartphone users and their impact on society
  • Includes a wide array of noted scholars publishing original research
  • Compliments other mobile media studies done on family communication, migration, health communication, and disability

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Mobile Phone and Political Participation in Asia: Theorizing the Dynamics of Personalized Technologies and Networked Externality

    • Ran Wei
    Pages 1-15

  4. Mobile Communication and Civic Engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Political Conversations as Civic Engagement: Examining Patterns from Mobile Communication Logs in Japan

      • Takahisa Suzuki, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Jeffrey Boase
      Pages 57-79

    3. Public Discourse on Genetically Modified Foods in the Mobile Sphere: Framing Risks, Opportunities, and Responsibilities in Mobile Social Media in China

      • Nan Yu, Qian Xu
      Pages 81-102

    4. Examining the Role of Mobile Media in Public Engagement with GMO Foods Among Chinese Consumers

      • Nainan Wen, Xiaoming Hao, Xin Han
      Pages 103-121

    5. Civic Engagement in Myanmar: The Promise and Threat of Mobile Communication and the Internet

      • Rajiv George Aricat, Rich Ling
      Pages 123-142

    6. The Impacts of Mobile Social Media on Collective Action: Two Case Studies from Singapore and Indonesia

      • Natalie Pang, Debbie Goh, Abdul Rohman
      Pages 143-156

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 233-236
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About this book

This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weibo, mobile WeChat, etc.) are featured as a response to calls for theorization of the mobile media's efficacy as a tool for citizen engagement and participation in civic and political affairs, especially in the search for collective solutions to widespread social problems of food safety, pollution, government corruption, and public health risks. Considering the vast cultural diversity of Asian societies that are shaped by different levels of political, social, economic, and religious development, the book offers nuanced studies that provide in-depth analysis of the mobile media and political communication in a variety of communities of leading Asian countries. From the country-specific studies, broad themes and enduring concepts emerge.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

    Ran Wei

About the editor

Ran Wei is the Gonzales Brothers Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, USA. He is also a Distinguished Honorary Professor of Communication University of China and Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He earned his Ph.D. in mass communication from Indiana University in 1995. A former TV journalist, active media consultant, and Editor-in-Chief of Mass Communication & Society, his research focuses on media effects and communication technology. He is a pioneering scholar in mobile media research and has published extensively in the emerging field of mobile communication. Over his career, he has published 170 books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference presentations. He was identified as one of the top 5% most cited scholars in the field by the Council of Canadian Academies. Wei is a member of eight editorial boards, including the #1 ranked Communication Research. His recent work appears in internationally known texts such as Robert Footner and Mark Fackler (Eds.) International Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory, Hong Cheng (Ed.) Handbook of International Advertising Research, Gianpietro Mazzolen (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia

  • Book Subtitle: Private Chat to Public Communication

  • Editors: Ran Wei

  • Series Title: Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0917-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0915-4Published: 04 October 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1435-6Published: 27 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-0917-8Published: 23 September 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2468-2403

  • Series E-ISSN: 2468-2411

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 236

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Communication Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies

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