News in Their Pockets: A Cross-City Comparative Study of Mobile News Consumption in Asia - Couverture rigide

Wei, Ran; Lo, Ven-hwei

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0197523722 ISBN 13 : 9780197523728

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2021

Synopsis

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news. With three billion mobile phone subscribers, Asian countries have led this seismic shift in news consumption. They provide a wide range of opportunities to study how, as mobile technology matures and becomes routinized, mobile news is increasingly subject to societal constraints and impositions of political power that reduce the democratic benefits of such news and call into question the application of these technological innovations within governments and societies.

News in Their Pockets explores the societal, technological, and user-related factors behind why and how digital-savvy college students seek news via the mobile phone across Asia's most mobile cities--Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei. Situating cross-societal comparative analyses of mobile news consumption in Asia within a digital and global context, this volume outlines the evolution of the mobile phone to its prominence in disseminating news, offers predictors of patterns in mobile news consumption, investigates user needs and expectations, and illustrates future impacts on civic engagement from mobile news consumption. By examining the interplay between game-changing and empowering communication technology and constraining social systems, News in Their Pockets provides the framework necessary for constructive, continuing debates over the promise and peril of digital news and exposes our underlying reasoning behind the adoption of the mobile phone as the all-in-one media of choice to stay socialized, entertained, and informed in the modern digital age.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ran Wei is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Ven-hwei Lo is Visiting Professor of Journalism in the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University and Editor of Communication and Society, a leading Chinese communication journal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0197523722
• ISBN 13: 9780197523728
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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