Mobile Media Use Among Children and Youth in Asia

Andrew Zi Han Yee (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2025), viii, 235 pp.

Contains 16 illustrations, index

ISBN 978-94-024-2282-5 (ebook); 978-94-024-2284-9 (pbk)

"This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context. By studying the impact of mobile media on children and youth in Asia, it focuses on the explosive growth of mobile media among young people and seeks to understand the potential consequences of mobile media use on society, relationships, and what it means to be a young person. With this, it provides a richly contextualized Asian voice to research on mobile media and young people, enriching the global conversation surrounding an increasingly central aspect of youths’ everyday lives. Research on mobile media and its impact on children and youths in Asia is not thoroughly represented, despite the proliferation of smartphone and tablet use in the region. This volume fills this gap by canvassing contemporary research on mobile media, children, and youth in Asia through the perspectives of emerging scholars in the region and beyond. It promotes an understanding of the motivations and patterns of use by children and youth in the region, examines contemporary research on the antecedents and consequences of mobile media use on society, relationships, and the individual, and provides a critique of mobile media use among children and youth. The volume also provides a culturally sensitive examination of mobile media use among children and youth, describing and analyzing policies enacted to manage young people’s smartphone use." (Publisher description)

Mobile Media and Asian Youths: Everything Everywhere All at Once / Andrew Zi Han Yee, Guan Peng Loy, 1
IDENTITY
Mobile Media and Chinese K-Pop Fandom / Meicheng Sun, 13
Co-constructing the Young Filipino Gamer: Mobile Gaming and Media Experiences in the Philippines / Jonalou Labor, Cheeno Marlo Sayuno, 29
Young, Famous, and Confused: The Narrative Storytelling of Young Indonesian Influencers During the COVID-19 Pandemic / Ina Ratriyana, 53
RELATIONSHIPS
Vietnamese Families Negotiating Glocal Intimacies: YouTube Appropriation, Home-Based Learning, and Digital Parenting Ideologies / Becky Pham, 77
Parental Mediation During Covid-19 Lockdown in Singapore / Hee Jhee Jiow, Lionel Goh, Ida Lian, Elizabeth Mascrinhas, Theodora Tan, 97
Navigating Friendship Among the Consciously Self-aware Generation / Julienne Thesa Y. Baldo-Cubelo, Ma. Rosel S. San Pascual, 115
Does Gender Matter? An Examination of Different Impacts of Parenting Style on Parent-Adolescents Conflicts Over Mobile Phone Use Between Boys and Girls / Xiaodong Yang, Yijing Li, 139
EMPOWERMENT
Empowering Young Digital Citizens: The Call for Co-creation Between Youth and Policymakers in Regulating for Online Safety and Privacy / Sharanya Shanmugam, Mark Findlay, 159
Social Media Use and Political Participation Among Young People in Hong Kong: A Structural Equation Analysis / Hang Li, Raymond Chi-fai Chui, Wang-on Li, Jason Tak-sang Chow, 185
Analysis of the Policy Context Surrounding Mobile Media Use Among Children and Young People in India / Abza Bharadwaj, Daljeet Arora, 209

Topics:

COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication Digital & Social Media Use: Youth Family Communication Gaming: Youth Girls and Media Influencers (Social Media) Mobile Phone Use: Children Mobile Phone Use: Youth Youth Activism, Youth Civic Engagement, Youth Political Interests, Youth Protests Youth Cultures, Youth Milieus, Youth Identities

Countries:

Asia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Philippines Singapore Vietnam