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The dramatic improvement of mobile phones, tablets, and game consoles has fundamentally changed our daily lives. While the bite-sized software programs people loaded onto their mobile phones seemed to be frivolous games until several years ago, smartphones and their applications have recently created new capital for information and communication technology corporations and changed the way people communicate. While many countries have invested in mobile industries since the early 21st century, several Asian countries have become some of the centers for mobile technologies and culture with their global smartphone manufacturers, such as Samsung and LG in Korea, HTC in Taiwan, Huawei and Lenovo in China. Although these countries were once lagging behind in the penetration of mobile phones, Asia exists as an interesting test-bed for the future of mobile technology and culture because several Asian countries advance several new mobile games based on their smartphones and application. The recent emergence of the smartphone industry and mobile gaming in Asia can be attributed to favorable information technology policies, severe competition among IT corporations, and enthusiastic mobile game users in the region. Equally important is the role of local smartphone applications, which have provided convenient smartphone platforms for local game users. Asians’ engagement with smartphones and related mobile apps suggest that the smartphone becomes a symbolic and material resource for people’s mobile game lifestyle.

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SUBMISSION 

Please submit proposals of up to 800 words, and a brief (300-word) author bio in an e-mail attachment by 30 May, 2015, to Dal Yong Jin (yongjin23@gmail.com). Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 15 July, 2015, and invited to submit a full paper by 15 October, 2015. Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, and conform to APA style. All chapters will be subjected to anonymous peer review following submission.

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