Description
New media and technology are firmly embedded in our contemporary society and culture. The application of the internet and mobile communications, including online gaming, has made a huge impact on political participation, business, education, and social relations.
Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics aims to engage the complex relationship between technology, culture, and socio-economic elements by exploring it in a transnational, yet contextually grounded, framework. This book explores diverse perspectives and approaches, from political economy to cultural studies, and from policy studies to ethnography, In order to reflect varied perspectives on the convergence of culture and new media technology.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Dal Jin (Ed.)
Dal Yong Jin finished his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and taught at Simon Fraser University in Canada for several
years. His major research and teaching interests are on media convergence and de-convergence, cultural
policies and industries, new media and game studies, globalization and media, and the political economy
of media and culture. He is the author of two books entitled Hands On/Hands Off: The Korean State
and the Market Liberalization of the Communication Industry (Hampton Press) and Korea's Online
Gaming Empire (MIT Press) and his recent work has appeared in several scholarly journals, including Media, Culture and Society, Games and Culture, Telecommunications Policy, Television and New
Media, Information Communication and Society and Javnost-the Public.