Japanese Cybercultures

Nanette Gottlieb (Curatore)

Mark McLelland (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2002

Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use. It examines the crucial questions: * how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the prevalence of access via portable devices, to the fashion culture of mobile phones * how Japan's "cute culture" has colonized cyberspace * the role of the Internet in different musical subcultures * how different men's and women's groups have embraced technology to highlight problems of harassment and bullying * the social, cultural and political impacts of the Internet on Japanese society * how marginalized groups in Japanese society - gay men, those living with AIDS, members of new religious groups and Japan's hereditary sub-caste, the Burakumin - are challenging the mainstream by using the Internet. Examined from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, using a broad range of case-studies, this is an exciting and genuinely cutting-edge book which breaks new ground in Japanese studies and will be of value to anyone interested in Japanese culture, the Internet and cyberculture.

• Curatore: Nanette Gottlieb, Mark McLelland
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com
• Anno: 2002
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 272 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9780415279192

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