Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction  1

Part I. Infrastructures

1. Video Documentary and Rural Public Culture in Ethnic China / Jenny Chio  35

2. EngageMedia: The
Gado Gado Tactics of New Social Media in Indonesia / Patricia R. Zimmerman  54

3. Wei dianying and Xiao quexing: Technologies of "Small" and Trans-Chinese Cinematic Practices / Chia-chi Wu  72

4. Converging Contents and Platforms: Niconico Video and Japan's Media Mix Ecology / Marc Steinberg  91

5. In Access: Digital Video and the User / Nishant Shah  114

Part II. Intimacies

6. MicroSD-ing "Mewati Videos": Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture / Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh  133

7. Documenting "Immigrant Brides" in Multicultural Taiwan / Tzu-hui Celina Hung  158

8. Bollywood Banned and the Electrifying Palmasutra: The Sensory Politics in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey  176

9. The Asianization of
Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German Video Works / Feng-Mei Heberer  198

Part III. Speculations

10. Politics in the Age of YouTube: Degraded Images and Small-Screen Revolutions / S. V. Srinivas  217

11. Pop Cosmopolitics and K-pop Video Culture / Michelle Cho  240

12.
Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection / Joshua Neves  266

13. Staying Alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS (Digital) Video Culture / Bishnupriya Ghosh  288

14. "Everyone's Property": Video Copying, Poetry, and Revolution in Arab West Asia / Kay Dickinson  307

Bibliography  327

Contributors  349

Index  353