This volume examines digital phenomena and its impact on Asia by drawing on specifically Asian perspectives.

Part 1: Overview 1. A (Digital) Giant Awakens - Invigorating Media Studies with Asian Perspectives Sun Sun Lim and Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano Part 2: Self and Identity 2. Face and Online Social Networking Sun Sun Lim and Iccha Basnyat 3. My Letter to Heaven via Email - Translocal Piety and Mediated Selves in Urban Marian Piety in the Philippines Manuel Victor J. Sapitula and Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano 4. Exploring Confucianism in Understanding Face-ism in Online Dating Sites of Eastern and Western Cultures Michael Prieler Part 3: Groups Processes and Collective Imaginaries 5. Credibility, Reliability, and Reciprocity: Mobile Communication, Guanxi, and Protest Mobilization in Contemporary China Jun Liu 6. The Local Sociality and Emotion of Jeong in Koreans' Media Practices Kyong Yoon 7. Ritual and Communal Connection in Mobile Phone Communication: Representations of Kapwa, Bayanihan and "People Power" in the Philippines Cheryll Soriano and Sun Sun Lim Part 4: Discourses and Discursive Constructions of Meaning 8. What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India? Discursive Constructions of CSR as Sarva Loka Hitam in Online Narratives of Companies in India Ganga S Dhanesh 9. Shadow and Soul: Stereoscopic Phantasmagoria and Holographic Immortalization in Transnational Chinese Pop Liew Kai Khiun 10. Tweets in the Limelight: The Contested Relationship between (Dis)harmony and Newsworthiness Yenn Lee Part 5: Conclusions and Ruminations 11. Asian modernity and the post human future: Some reflections T T Sreekumar 12. Re-Orienting Global Digital Cultures Gerard Goggin