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Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies

By Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University


Springer, 2016

http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789402408249


This book provides holistic approaches to the field of mobile gaming,
includes a comprehensive analysis of mobile gaming in the context of Asian
smartphones, and develops a local perspective using translated papers
published in national languages.


This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a
hitherto neglected focus of inquiry – a localized mobile landscape, with
particular reference to young Asians’ engagement with mobile gaming. This
edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games,
but also on the significance of social milieu in the development of Asian
mobile technologies and gaming culture. It examines the growth of the
current mobile technologies and mobile gaming not as separate but as
continuous developments in tandem with the digital economy. It is of
interest to both academics and a broader readership from the business,
government, and information technology sectors.

Dal Yong Jin is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon
Fraser University, Canada (djin at sfu.ca)