Revisiting critical issues of media and cultural globalisation in East Asia

A presentation by Koichi Iwabuchi, Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo.

QUT Creative Industries Precinct: Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove
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Tuesday March 9: The Hall 12 - 2 pm

This will be part of a Master Class sponsored by the Cultural Research Network (CRN) Persons wishing to make a time to discuss their projects with Prof. Iwabuchi, please send a one page summary to Hui Li by March 5 h2.li@qut.edu.au

ABSTRACT
In the last two decades, media and cultural globalization has reached another level of　development and penetration. While various (national) media markets have been penetrated and　integrated by the powerful missionaries of global media culture, no less has become conspicuous the development of East Asian media cultural production and　inter-Asian media co-production, circulation and consumption. On the one hand, these developments have highlighted the de-Westernized patterns of cultural production, circulation　and connection in, from and within the region.

However, on the other, it is still questionable if　these developments have eventually challenged uneven transnational media cultural flows　and have truthfully promoted dialogic connections among people of various places, as they　reproduce hierarchy, unevenness and marginalization, especially as the logic of market has deeply governed the production, circulation and consumption of　media culture. This paper will critically review what the rise of Asian media culture production and inter-Asian connections has not achieved in serving wider public interests locally, nationally and transnationally.

BIO: Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo. He has worked on contemporary media and cultural issues such as globalization and transnationalism, inter-Asian media connections, multicultural questions and cultural citizenship in the Japanese/East Asian contexts. His main English publications include: Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and Japanese transnationalism (Duke UP 2002), (co-eds with Mandy Thomas and Stephen Muecke) Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian cultural traffic (Hong Kong UP 2004), (co-ed with Chua Beng Huat) East Asian Pop Culture: Analyzing the Korean Wave (Hong Kong UP 2008), He is a co-editor (with Chris Berry) of a book series of Hong Kong University Press, TransAsia: Screen Cultures.

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