Mobile Cultures by Chris Berry, Fran Martin, Audrey Yue - 9780822330875

Mobile CulturesNew Media in Queer Asia\nAuthor(s): Chris Berry, Fran Martin, Audrey Yue\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822330875, 978-0822330875\nSynopsis\nMobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media-fax machines, mobile phones, the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, and global television-have grown exponentially in Asia over the past decade. This explosion of information technology has sparked a revolution, transforming lives and lifestyles, enabling the creation of communities and the expression of sexual identities in a region notorious for the regulation of both information and sexual conduct. Whether looking at the hanging of toy cartoon characters like Hello Kitty from mobile phones to signify queer identity in e