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Course Description

This course introduces the cultural, social, and political relevance of popular culture as pertained to people’s everyday life, economic activities, identities, and civic engagement. The course aims to facilitate dialogues about popular culture and practices in Asia. For decades, popular culture developments in Asia have shaped regionalization and globalization. Analytical concepts from media, social and cultural research could enrich the perspectives of students and further invite them to engage with Asia beyond the definition of nationalism and geopolitics.

The 16-Week Overview

2/22 Introduction; Mini Lecture 1_Popular Culture Defined

2/29 Lecture 2_The Process of Circulation; Mini Quiz (Wk1, 2)

3/7 Lecture 3_Technological Interface and Industries

3/14 Lecture 4_Participation and Engagement; Mini Quiz (Wk3, 4)

3/21 Lecture 5_Hybrid Originals?

3/28 Lecture 6_Designing Media Ecology; Mini Quiz (Wk5, 6)

4/4 National Holiday（兒童節）No Class

4/11 Midterm Exam

4/18 Work Session 1: Pop Culture Project Pitch

4/25 (TBA) Fieldtrip to the neighborhood comic bookstore Moose 師大白鹿洞

5/2  Performance/Lecture: Guest Speaker: Sorry Youth 拍謝少年 member/guitar player Weni

5/9  Work Session 2: Written draft due

5/16 Work Session 3: Revision and cover design due; recording

5/23 Recording and editing week

5/30 Listening Party 1

6/6  Listening Party 2

教學進度與主題附件

教學進度與主題附件

Complete References (in weekly order)

Kim, Youna. 2017. “Digital Diaspora, Mobility, and Home,” in Routledge Handbook of East

Asian Popular Culture, eds. Koichi Iwabuchi, Eva Tsai, and Chris Berry. Routledge.

55-66.

Jiang, Wanci. 2022. Why are Migrant Workers Always Live-Streaming?” ECUS Publishing.

English translation by author. 江婉琦《移工怎麼都在直播》（木馬文化）之第一篇〈熟悉的空間，不同的面貌〉。

Huang, Shuling. 2022. “’Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the

construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults.” Mobilities 17:3, 333-348. Tsao, Fu-Nien. 2020/10/15“So Close Yet So Far: The Immigrant Experiences of Hong

Kongers in Taiwan” (The Reporter link)

Hu, Kelly. 2017. “Between Informal and Formal Cultural Economy: Chinese Subtitle

Groups and Flexible Accumulation in the Age of Online Viewing,” in Routledge

Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture, eds. Koichi Iwabuchi, Eva Tsai, and Chris

Berry. Routledge. 45-54.

Ahmed, Sara. 2004/2014 The Cultural Politics of Emotion, 2nd edition. Edinburgh

University Press.

Tintiangko, J. et al. 2023. “Compelled TikTok Creators? The Ambivalence affordances of

the short video app for Filipino musicians.” Media, Culture & Society 45(8):1600-1615. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231174

Wade Morris, J. and S. Murray, ed. 2018. “Introduction” in Appified: Culture in the Age of

Apps. University of Michigan Press.

Jian, Miaoju. 2020. “How Taiwanese Indie Music Embraces the World,” in Made in Taiwan:

Studies in Popular Music, eds. Eva Tsai, Tung-hung Ho, and Miaoju Jian. Routledge. 213-228.

jirattikorn, Amporn. 2023. “Carnivalesque communities: Thai TV Dramas and the Chinese

Censorship.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 24(5):776-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2242143

Lamerichs, Nicolle. 2020. “Scrolling, swiping, selling: Understanding Webtoons and the

Data-Driven Participatory Culture Around Comics.” Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies. 17(2). https://www.participations.org/17-02-10-lamerichs.pdf

Vandenberg, Layne. (July 21, 2020) “The Political Activism of K-pop fans (The Diplomat         link)

Youn, Soo. (Feb. 16, 2023). “How K-pop Stans are Shaping Elections Around the Globe.”

(MIT Technology Review)

Anderson, Crystal S. 2020. Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop.

University Press of Mississippi.

Lewis, Tania and Haiqing Yu. 2022. “Food and Digital Lifestyles in Asia: From MasterChef

to Mukbang.” Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered and Mobile, ed. Youna Kim.

Routledge. 195-208.

Mizukoshi, Shin. 2017. “Media Literacy and Digital Storytelling in Contemporary Japan.”

IIAS Newsletter 76 International Institute of Asian Studies University of Leiden. https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/media-literacy-digital-storytelling-contemporary-japan.

Tsai, Eva. (Producer/Host). 2017-2023. Shida Stories 師大的故事 [Podcast].

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1938607 (also available on Apple, Spotify, KKBOX)