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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.
List 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
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
Summary
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.
