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Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2008
In this paper, we analyze the data collected through in-depth interviews of migrant workers in So... more In this paper, we analyze the data collected through in-depth interviews of migrant workers in Southern China about their mobile cultures. In particular, we focus on understanding the role that mobile cultures play in female workers' negotiation of their social and romantic relations and leisure space and how these negotiations are directly or indirectly facilitated by development of informal literacies through their frequent short message service communicative practices. These will help us understand the lifestyle aspirations and life trajectories of the new young working women in China who are experiencing the most rapid socioeconomic changes in society and negotiating their ways of life amidst much tension between old and new values governing lifestyle aspirations, familial, and gender relations.
Journal of Gender Studies, Jan 1, 2007
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 2009
asiafuture.org
In this paper we describe and analyze a TV drama web-based fangroup forum which has been initiate... more In this paper we describe and analyze a TV drama web-based fangroup forum which has been initiated by a Hong Kong secondary school student. The website organizational structure and activities are analyzed and discussed in terms of what seems to be transpiring in this entirely voluntarily co-constructed social space. We shall then analyse these on-line activities in terms of the kind of social imaginary (Taylor 2002) that seems to be emerging in this virtual space. Concluding the paper we shall discuss implications for our ...
East Asian pop culture: Analyzing the Korean wave, 2008
The new millennium witnessed increasing transnational flow of Korean popular cultural content inc... more The new millennium witnessed increasing transnational flow of Korean popular cultural content including TV dramas, movies and pop songs and Korean stars have been remarkably well received in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other East and Southeast Asian societies. This sudden frenzy about Korean pop culture in Asia has been regionally dubbed'the Korean Wave'('Hallyu'). While Hallyu has aroused critical response from both public and intellectual discourses, pointing to legitimate concerns about the potential rise ...
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2008
In this paper, we analyze the data collected through in-depth interviews of migrant workers in So... more In this paper, we analyze the data collected through in-depth interviews of migrant workers in Southern China about their mobile cultures. In particular, we focus on understanding the role that mobile cultures play in female workers' negotiation of their social and romantic relations and leisure space and how these negotiations are directly or indirectly facilitated by development of informal literacies through their frequent short message service communicative practices. These will help us understand the lifestyle aspirations and life trajectories of the new young working women in China who are experiencing the most rapid socioeconomic changes in society and negotiating their ways of life amidst much tension between old and new values governing lifestyle aspirations, familial, and gender relations.
Journal of Gender Studies, Jan 1, 2007
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 2009
asiafuture.org
In this paper we describe and analyze a TV drama web-based fangroup forum which has been initiate... more In this paper we describe and analyze a TV drama web-based fangroup forum which has been initiated by a Hong Kong secondary school student. The website organizational structure and activities are analyzed and discussed in terms of what seems to be transpiring in this entirely voluntarily co-constructed social space. We shall then analyse these on-line activities in terms of the kind of social imaginary (Taylor 2002) that seems to be emerging in this virtual space. Concluding the paper we shall discuss implications for our ...
East Asian pop culture: Analyzing the Korean wave, 2008
The new millennium witnessed increasing transnational flow of Korean popular cultural content inc... more The new millennium witnessed increasing transnational flow of Korean popular cultural content including TV dramas, movies and pop songs and Korean stars have been remarkably well received in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other East and Southeast Asian societies. This sudden frenzy about Korean pop culture in Asia has been regionally dubbed'the Korean Wave'('Hallyu'). While Hallyu has aroused critical response from both public and intellectual discourses, pointing to legitimate concerns about the potential rise ...