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Mobile Cultures provides much needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections
between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise
of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media - fax machines, mobile phones,
the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, and global television - have grown
exponentially in Asia over the past decade. This explosion of information technology
has sparked a revolution, transforming lives and lifestyles, enabling the creation
of communities and the expression of sexual identities in a region notorious for the
regulation of both information and sexual conduct. Whether looking at the hanging
of toy cartoon characters like "Hello Kitty" from mobile phones to signify queer identity
in Japan or at the development of queer identities in Indonesia or Singapore, the
essays collected here emphasize the enormous variance in the appeal and uses of new
media from one locale to another.
Scholars, artists, and activists from a range of countries, the contributors chronicle
the different ways new media galvanize Asian queer communities in Taiwan, South Korea,
Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, India, and around the world. They consider phenomena
such as the uses of the Internet among gay, lesbian, or queer individuals in Taiwan
and South Korea; the international popularization of Japanese queer pop culture products
such as Yaoi manga; and a Thai website's reading of a scientific tract on gay genetics
in light of Buddhist beliefs. Essays also explore the politically subversive possibilities
opened up by the proliferation of media technologies, examining, for instance, the
use of Cyberjaya - Malaysia's government-backed online portal - to form online communities
in the face of strict antigay laws.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue
I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections
I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, "Globalization," and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom
Boellstorff
Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland
Guided Fan Fiction: Western "Readings" of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska
Sabucco
Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace in 1990s Taiwan and Korea /
Chris Berry and Fran Martin
Queerly Embodying the Good and the Normal / David Mullaly
II. Mobile Sites: New Screens, New Scenes
Singaporean Queering of the Internet: Toward a New Form of Cultural Transmission of
Rights Discourse / Baden Offord
Pop and ma: The Landscape of Japanese Commodity Characters and Subjectivity / Larissa
Hjorth
From Khush List to Gay Bombay: Virtual Webs of Real People / Sandip Roy
III. Circuits: Regional Zones
Queer Voyeurism and the Pussy-Matrix in Shu Lea Cheang's Japanese Pornography / Katrien
Jacobs
Sexing the City: Malaysia's New "Cyberlaws" and Cyberjaya's Queer Success / Olivia
Khoo
Paging "New Asia": Sambal Is a Feedback Loop, Coconut Is a Code, Rice Is a System
/ Audrey Yue
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