Asiascape: Digital Asia

Asiascape: Digital Asia is a peer-reviewed academic journal that explores the political, social, and cultural impact of digital media in Asia. Although we do not exclude scholarship in digital culture and culture studies, Asiascape’s focus is on research from the social sciences, arts, media and communication studies, information and computer sciences, and area studies. Bringing together state-of-the-art research from these fields, Asiascape examines the role that information, communication, and other digital technologies play in Asian societies (Japan, the Koreas, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines), as well as in intra-regional dynamics and transnational links between the region and other parts of the world. The journal addresses issues such as:

• media converge in the digital age,
• transnational flows of digital culture,
• e-governance,
• the politics of network societies,
• online activism and digital challenges to state power,
• the workings of social and participatory media, and
• the dynamics of digital play.

Asiascape analyses these issues through research that takes seriously the workings of ICT in different contexts, that critically theorizes such workings, and that is based on authoritative empirical analysis. We particularly encourage inter- and multi-disciplinary contributions that adopt digital methods, as well as theoretically-minded work that critically explores how ICTs can be understood through the lenses of different realities in Asia.

Asiascape further provides book reviews on the topics outlined above, specifically aiming to introduce non-Asian related works and scholars to the area-studies community, and research on Asia to the larger field of digital media and communication studies. In addition, Asiascape reviews relevant conferences, and includes a digital media review that focuses on digital platforms and media products.