xii List of contributors
Tania Lewis is an Associate Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is
the author of Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise and co-
author of Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia and
Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practices. She has edited and co-edited
various collections with Routledge including Ethical Consumption: A critical
introduction; Lifestyle Media in Asia: Consumption, aspiration and identity;
and TV Transformations: Revealing the Makeover Show. She is a chief
investigator on the Australian Research Council discovery project: Ethical
Consumption: From the Margins to the Mainstream and on the Sustainable
Urban Precincts Project.
Amit Jain is Professor at TAPMI School of Business and Director, School of
Hotel Management, Manipal University Jaipur, India. He has published several
articles on marketing strategy, sales management, marketing communications,
and retail management. He is life member of the Indian Society for Training
and Development and currently holds the position of chairman in its Jaipur
chapter.
Sun Jung is a Research Fellow in the Asia Research Institute at the National
University of Singapore. She has published broadly on South Korean popular
cultures, lifestyles, and transnational media flows, including the monograph
Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption: Yonsama, Rain, Oldboy
and K-pop Idols (HKUP, 2011). Her current projects include social media and
cross-border cultural transmissions; K-pop: art of cultural capital; neoliberal
capitalism, sustainable lifestyles, and media representations; participatory
public space: a right to the networked city; and sexuality and gender in Asian
pop cultures. [email protected] / [email protected].
Fumitoshi Kato (PhD degree in communication) is currently working as a
professor at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio
University, Japan. His research interests include communication theory, media
studies, socio-cultural impacts of new technologies, qualitative research
methods, and experiential learning theory and practice.
Wanning Sun is Professor of media and communication studies at the Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences, UTS (University of Technology Sydney). Her
research interests span a number of areas, including health and environmental
communication, social change and inequality in contemporary China, and
diasporic Chinese media.
Toru Terada is Project Lecturer at the Department of Urban Engineering, The
University of Tokyo. He received a PhD degree in Environmental Studies,
specializing in landscape and urban planning, from The University of Tokyo
in 2011. After receiving his PhD degree, Dr. Terada managed to develop his
academic career as Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Frontier
Sciences, The University of Tokyo (2011–2015) and project lecturer at the
Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo (since 2015).