News in Their Pockets - A Cross-City Comparative Study of Mobile News Consumption in Asia

News in Their Pockets provides the framework necessary for constructive, continuing debates over the promise and peril of digital news. It further exposes our underlying reasoning behind the adoption of the mobile phone as the all-in-one media of choice to stay socialized, entertained, and informed in the modern digital age.

About the author

Ran Wei is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Ven-hwei Lo is Visiting Professor of Journalism in the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University and Editor of Communication and Society, a leading Chinese communication journal.

Summary

News in Their Pockets provides the framework necessary for constructive, continuing debates over the promise and peril of digital news. It further exposes our underlying reasoning behind the adoption of the mobile phone as the all-in-one media of choice to stay socialized, entertained, and informed in the modern digital age.

Additional text

With smooth, tasteful, and exuberant writing, News in Their Pockets represents a timely and much-needed outlook over the convergence of news and the mobile revolution in Asia. Readers will hone their understanding about the motivations, perceptions, uses, and democratic effects of the ever-evolving world of news gone mobile.

Product details

• Authors: Lo , Wei , Ven-Hwei Lo, Ven-hwei (Visiting Professor in the Department of Journalism Lo, Ran Wei, Ran (Distinguished Professor Emeritus Wei, Wei Ran
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780197523728
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752372-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies in Mobile Communication; Studies in Mobile Communicatio; STUDIES IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Films, cinema, Interdisciplinary studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General