Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age

Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age explores how celebrity cultures in Asia are changing with globalisation and digitalisation. It includes case studies from various Asian countries and is essential for those studying celebrity, fandom, digital media, and cultural studies. An interdisciplinary study of Asian celebrity culture and digital media.

Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalized and digitalized Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity practices, cultures, politics, fandom, and economies. Highlighting original case studies from prominent Asian societies, including India, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, this book sheds much-needed light on the de-Westernization and internationalization of celebrity studies and is essential reading for scholars and students in celebrity, fandom, digital media and communication, and cultural studies.

• | Author: Divya Garg, Jian Xu, Glen Donnar
• | Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9789888876877
• | ISBN-10: 9888876872