This book provides an account of Mongolian information society from the perspective of critical media studies. The converged media sphere in modern Mongolia mirrors and shapes political communication, economic outlook, institutional norms, and Mongolian identity. When placing Mongolia on the global information society map, the arguments in the book juxtapose information society tenets and structural constraints like the small market, communist past, and mining-dependent economy. Today, people in Mongolia take advantage of the mobility, speed, and spatiality of the internet, as the Mongolians of old once saddled their horses and galloped across the grassy steps of Eurasia.
This book provides an account of Mongolian information society from the perspective of critical media studies.
Information Society and Media Development in Modern Mongolia, List of
Figures, Introduction,
Chapter 1 - Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) in Mongolia,
Chapter 2 - Media Development: From Socialist to Social
Media,
Chapter 3 - Economic Reality: Mining, Debt, Media, and Information
Markets,
Chapter 4 - Media Laws and Regulations in a Digital Age,
Chapter 5 -
Civil Society and Young People's Media, Conclusion, Acknowledgments, Index.
Undrah B. Baasanjav is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She received a Ph.D. from Ohio University and has published over a dozen journal articles and book chapters on Mongolian media, online gaming, online education, and internet governance. Professor Caroline Humphrey Professor Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge, which she co-founded, and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978.|Franck Billé is a cultural anthropologist based at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is program director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies. He is the author of Sinophobia (Hawaii, 2015), coauthor of On the Edge (Harvard, 2021), editor of Voluminous States (Duke, 2020), and coeditor of Yellow Perils (Hawaii, 2019) and Frontier Encounters (Open Book, 2012). He is currently finalizing his latest book, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity.
