Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia

Technology and Multimedia have a crucial role in our daily lives. In fact, they have become integrated into the social, political, cultural, and economic systems. The confluence of these is more often than not related to the adoption and use of Information Technology (IT). The rapid development and wide applications of IT in the past few decades have impacted the structure of economies and markets[1,2,] and the measures of productivity.[3] The wide adoption of IT and digitalisation of economies in the past two decades has pushed e-businesses to the front of the economic system. While it was mostly firms, which were adopting the internet-based service model in the early 2000s, the development of an enabling environment constituted of technologies and relevant policies by national governments has ushered in an era of entrepreneurship.