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.
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1 Digital Transactions in Asia |
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PART 1 Platforms, Infrastructure and Regulation |
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2 Zhejiang's Digital Dream |
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3 Infrastructure and Platform Anxieties in India |
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44 | (19) |
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4 Recalibrating China in a Time of Platforms |
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63 | (20) |
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5 Demonetization: India's Year of Living Digitally |
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83 | (21) |
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6 Another Dimension of Digital: 3D Printing and Intellectual Property in Asia |
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104 | (15) |
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7 Digital Rights in Asia: Rethinking Regional and International Agendas |
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119 | (18) |
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PART 2 Financial, Social and Cultural Transactions |
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8 Embedding Digital Money amongst Chinese Migrant Factory Workers |
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139 | (17) |
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9 The Digital State: A Tale of Tweets and Foods in Contemporary India |
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156 | (16) |
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10 `Skill-Makers' in the Platform Economy: Transacting Digital Labour |
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172 | (20) |
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11 The Enterprising Self: Disability and Digital Entrepreneurship in China |
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192 | (17) |
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12 Resilient Love: Intimacy, Social Media Surveillance and (Dis)Trust in Metro Manila |
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209 | (15) |
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13 Chinese Transcreators, Webtoons and the Korean Digital Wave |
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224 | (18) |
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14 Insurrectionary Tendencies: The Viral Fever Comedies and Indian Media |
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242 | (18) |
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15 Hijabers on Instagram: Visualising the Ideal Muslim Woman |
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260 | (25) |
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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
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