Lifestyle Media in Asia

Consumption, Aspiration and Identity
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-47741-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

Reihe: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with choices about their lifestyles and identities. One aspect of this development has been the emergence of new wealthy middle classes with lifestyle aspirations shaped by national, regional and global media – especially by a range of new popular lifestyle media, which includes magazines, television and mobile and social media. This book explores how far everyday conceptions and experiences of identity are being transformed by media cultures across the region. It considers a range of different media in different Asian contexts, contrasting how the shaping of lifestyles in Asia differs from similar processes in Western countries, and assessing how the new lifestyle media represents not just a new emergent media culture, but also illustrates wider cultural and social changes in the Asian region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Fran

Lewis, Tania

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword 1. Lifestyle Media in Asia: Consumption, Aspiration and Identity 2. Neoliberal Capitalism and Media Representation in Korean Television Series 3. Family, Aesthetic Authority and Class Identity in the Shadow of Neo-liberal Modernity 4. Mediatization of Yangsheng 5. The Pink Ribbon Campaign in Chinese Fashion Magazines 6. Empresses in the Palace and The Project of "Neoliberalization through China" in Taiwan 7. Media and Cultural Cosmopolitanism 8. Differential (Im)mobilities: Imaginative Transnationalism in Taiwanese Women’s Travel TV 8. Locating the Mobile 9. Dishing Up Diversity? Class, Aspirationalism and Indian Food Television 10. Islam´s Got Talent

Über Autor(innen)

Fran Martin is an Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.

Tania Lewis is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.