Southeast Asia is the most densely populated region in the world, where
neighboring states are political and economic heavyweights, leading players in
a globalized world, and small countries that retain their distinctive
appearance and style. It is a cauldron of ethnic groups, religions, worldviews,
which has given rise to many alternative ways of integrating traditions and
modernity.
In particular, Asian media, especially electronic ones, and social
networks such as Chinese Weibo, WeiChat, Tencent and Qzone, South Korean Naver,
and Japanese Line can serve as an example of such integration.
East Asian cinema and TV-show production display clear influence of
Western, primarily Hollywood, standards. Yet they have many original
characteristics, some of which are due to national historical experience and
mentality, while others are dictated by state censorship and political agenda.
No less interesting is the representation that Asian peoples and
cultures receive in Western cinema and commercials, and the recent growing
protest of East and Southeast Asian natives against discrimination and
stereotyping of their image.
An urgent issue is the specifics of the functioning of state censorship
in many Asian countries, which blocks Internet resources using means of technical
surveillance and efforts of the Internet police. Such censorship of the media and private
Internet sites, including blogs, forums, and social media pages, is explained
by government agencies in Southeast Asia as protection from malicious content
(which is often understood as opposition to the state system).
This issue will be devoted to the specifics of the Asian mass media,
their relationship with the culture, economic processes and political practices
of the states of the Far East and the Pacific region.
The deadline for submission of manuscripts for the specialized issue is
September 30, 2020. You can submit your manuscripts via the electronic
manuscript submission system marked "For the thematic issue of "Asian
Tigers in the Digital Jungles"! - via the Submitting System (please read
the material requirements carefully) or by email to admin@galacticamedia.com
All manuscripts are first reviewed by editor of the issue, then two
experts in the field perform a blind review of each article, and then the editorial
board makes a final decision on the inclusion of the article in the issue.
Discussion questions include (but are not limited to) topics such as:
- Digital life in South-East Asia
- On-line journals and newspapers in South-East Asia
- Websites, web tools and social media platforms in Asian Pacific: new made-in-Asia competitors to global media giants.
- Asian films and TV-shows and their fight for markets and audiences.
- Transnational cinema as a Chinese product in an American wrapping.
- Stereotyping Asians in films and commercials.
- Media companies operating in in South-East Asia
- Social media in multi-ethnoreligious communities.
- Pop culture with an Asian face in the media space
- The phenomenon of anime / manga and their role in world popular culture
- Asian youth subcultures: between the past and the future
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