Digital Geopolitics: Intermediality and New Media in East Asia

The motivation for dedicating this issue of Concentric to intermediality in East Asia comes from acknowledging that new media have dramatically reconfigured literary and cultural studies, in both expanding the relevant research materials and redefining methodological approaches. New media now seem to be on everyone's mind. Online video, games, and social media have become a major scholarly preoccupation. In parallel, questions about mediality have taken cultural studies by storm, based on renewed interest in the history of material media (e.g., Kittler, Parikka). Such studies have backdated new media to the pre-cinematic age and placed intermediality, remediation, and hypermediality at the center of humanistic inquiry.