Mobile Media as a Political Institution in Asia: Preliminary Evidence from Empirical Research 2000–2015

Ran Wei; Jane O’Boyle

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-0917-8_2

Mobile Media as a Political Institution in Asia: Preliminary Evidence from Empirical Research 2000–2015

Ran Wei^*
, Jane O’Boyle

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Communication Studies

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Analyzing articles from a dozen leading academic journals in the field published between 2000 and 2015, this chapter assesses twenty-first century mobile communication research on Asia to trace the evolutionary trajectory of mobile phones from a technological device and tool of social interaction, and then to a global information and news platform. Results show that mobile media research on Asia has corresponded to the technological evolution, from which mobile media are examined as an institution that draws together large publics for purposes of civic engagement and political action. The mobile phone has become a pocket-sized political tool. Moreover, evidence analyzed from empirical research on Asian countries reveals the strong possibility of mobile media as a persisting civic and political institution in both democratic and non-democratic societies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia
Subtitle of host publication	Private Chat to Public Communication
Editors	Ran Wei
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer
Pages	19-39
Number of pages	21
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9789402409178
ISBN (Print)	9789402409154, 9789402414356
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0917-8_2
Publication status	Published - 23 Sept 2016

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Name	Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications
ISSN (Print)	2468-2403
ISSN (Electronic)	2468-2411

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Asian mobile communication
Political communication

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Wei, R., & O’Boyle, J. (2016). Mobile Media as a Political Institution in Asia: Preliminary Evidence from Empirical Research 2000–2015. In R. Wei (Ed.), Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication (1st ed., pp. 19-39). (Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0917-8_2

Wei, Ran ; O’Boyle, Jane. / Mobile Media as a Political Institution in Asia : Preliminary Evidence from Empirical Research 2000–2015. Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication. editor / Ran Wei. 1st. ed. Dordrecht : Springer, 2016. pp. 19-39 (Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications).

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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication. ed. / Ran Wei. 1st. ed. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016. p. 19-39 (Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications).

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Wei R, O’Boyle J. Mobile Media as a Political Institution in Asia: Preliminary Evidence from Empirical Research 2000–2015. In Wei R, editor, Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication. 1st ed. Dordrecht: Springer. 2016. p. 19-39. (Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications). doi: 10.1007/978-94-024-0917-8_2

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