The Candlelight Movement Democracy And Communication In Korea

Author : JongHwa Lee,Chuyun Oh,Yong-Chan Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000439595

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The Candlelight Movement, Democracy, and Communication in Korea by JongHwa Lee,Chuyun Oh,Yong-Chan Kim Pdf

This book examines key features, problems, and implications of the 2016–2017 Candlelight Movement, a historical cornerstone for democracy and social movements in South Korea. The Candlelight Movement brought profound social changes with important lessons and questions for scholars, practitioners, activists, and the public. To examine the full complexity of the movement, this edited volume utilises wide-ranging methodological and theoretical approaches, which include case study approaches, ethnography, survey, feminist film criticism, critical discourse analysis, and rhetorical criticism. Chapters place ‘communication’ at the centre of their analyses, calling attention to the mediated and mediatised, the performative and other discursive practices of the 2016–2017 Candlelight Movement. In doing so, the book discusses not only the usual players and factors – nor the institutions that exert their influence through democratic politics and the public sphere – but also the counter-public embracing new and social media, collective singing, the body, and performance, as their choice of political media. As such, this volume offers important insights into how communication plays a critical role in forming, moving, and transforming new social movements. The Candlelight Movement, Democracy, and Communication in Korea will appeal to students and scholars of communication and media studies, political science, sociology, and Korean studies.

Author : Hojeong Lee,Joong-Hwan Oh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793642295

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Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea by Hojeong Lee,Joong-Hwan Oh Pdf

Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea deepens the current understanding of online activism and its impacts on society by highlighting how various forms of social movements have been mobilized in Korea. Through exploring movements in Korea such as political participation based on SNS, the 2008 U.S. beef protests, and the 2016-2017 candlelight vigils, the contributors study the intersection of digital media platforms, current trends, and social, cultural, and political conditions within Korean society. Using a wide range of events and movements, this book analyzes how people have utilized the development of digital media to facilitate social movements and effect social change.

Author : Jiyeon Kang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824856595

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Igniting the Internet by Jiyeon Kang Pdf

​Igniting the Internet is one of the first books to examine in depth the development and consequences of Internet-born politics in the twenty-first century. It takes up the new wave of South Korean youth activism that originated online in 2002, when the country’s dynamic cyberspace transformed a vehicular accident involving two U.S. servicemen into a national furor that compelled many Koreans to reexamine the fifty-year relationship between the two countries. Responding to the accident, which ended in the deaths of two high school students, technologically savvy youth went online to organize demonstrations that grew into nightly rallies across the nation. Internet-born, youth-driven mass protest has since become a familiar and effective repertoire for activism in South Korea, even as the rest of the world has struggled to find its feet with this emerging model of political involvement. Igniting the Internet focuses on the cultural dynamics that have allowed the Internet to bring issues rapidly to public attention and exert influence on both domestic and international politics. The author combines a robust analysis of online communities with nuanced interview data to theorize a “cultural ignition process”—the mechanisms and implications for popular politics in volatile Internet-driven activism—in South Korea and beyond. She offers a unique perspective on how local actors experience and remember the cultural dynamics of Internet-born activism and how these experiences shape the political identities of a generation who has essentially come of age in cyberspace, the so-called digital natives or millennials. South Korea’s debates on the nature of youth-driven Internet protest reverberated around the world following the events in Tahrir Square in 2010 and Zuccotti Park in 2011. Igniting the Internetoffers numerous points of comparison with countries following a path of technological development and urban youth formation similar to that of South Korea with a thorough consideration of general structural changes and locally specific triggers for Internet activism. Readers interested in social movement theory and new media in social context as well as students and scholars of Korean studies will find the work both far-reaching and insightful.

Author : Mi Park
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Demonstrations
ISBN : 198904302X

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South Korea's Candelight Revolution by Mi Park Pdf

Author : Ki-Sung Kwak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415557146

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Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea by Ki-Sung Kwak Pdf

This book focuses on the changing role of media in the more democratised political landscape of South Korea. It contributes to debates about the emerging role of the media in democratic transition, especially in relation to approaches that go beyond traditional Western constructs of media freedom and the relationship between the state and the media.

Author : David C. Oh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472055456

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Mediating the South Korean Other by David C. Oh Pdf

Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often translated as racism, refers to discrimination based on any kind of “human category.” Explaining Korea’s relationship to difference and its practices of othering, including in media culture, requires new language and nuance in English-language scholarship. This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the “other,” taking into account the nation’s postcolonial and neocolonial relationships and its mediated construction of self. “Anthrocategorism,” a more nuanced translation of injongchabyeol, is proffered as a new framework for understanding difference in ways that are locally meaningful in a society and media system in which racial or even ethnic differences are not the most salient. The collection points to the construction of racial others that elevates, tolerates, and incorporates difference; the construction of valued and devalued ethnic others; and the ambivalent construction of co-ethnic others as sympathetic victims or marginalized threats.

Author : Marko M. Skoric,Natalie Pang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800377059

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Research Handbook on Social Media and Society by Marko M. Skoric,Natalie Pang Pdf

As social media scholarship matures, early optimism has been replaced by a more complex and arguably gloomier picture of the role of digital media platforms in our lives. This incisive Research Handbook showcases the academic community’s responses to key societal challenges posed by evolving social media ecologies.

Author : Celeste L. Arrington,Patricia Goedde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108841337

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Rights Claiming in South Korea by Celeste L. Arrington,Patricia Goedde Pdf

An analysis of rights-based activism in South Korea, including case studies of women, workers, disabled persons, migrants, and sexual minorities.

Author : Song-Chong Lee
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783038978886

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The Role and Meaning of Religion for Korean Society by Song-Chong Lee Pdf

This special issue presents discussions of the role and meaning of religion for Korean society. Covering wide-ranging time periods, the authors explores with their own cases four major characteristics of Korean religion: Creativity, Greater Responsiveness, Adaptability, and Prophethood. Their topical religious traditions include Neo-Confucianism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Korean new religious movements.

Author : Hyun Choe,Ja-Kyung Kim,Hun-Gyo Jang,Yea-Yl Yoon,Suh-Hyun Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000544275

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Commons Perspectives in South Korea by Hyun Choe,Ja-Kyung Kim,Hun-Gyo Jang,Yea-Yl Yoon,Suh-Hyun Park Pdf

Since its founding in 2011, the Research Center on the Commons and Sustainable Society has been at the forefront of Commons Research in South Korea. This book brings together the discoveries and insights the Center has produced in its first decade, as a contribution to international commons research and to the understanding of the commons in South Korea particularly. Divided into five main parts, the book charts the course of commons research in South Korea. Part I surveys the historical background to commons thinking through the course of its foundation as a dictator-led developmental state through to its current democratic and neoliberal status quo. Following on from this, Part II looks at how diverse commons perspectives have taken root during this period. Part III then analyses the various specific fields through which commons research in Korea has grown. After this, Part IV presents the fruits of this commons research—the alternative policies and social actions that have been proposed for Korean society. Lastly, Part V addresses the remaining challenges which ongoing commons research in Korea is seeking to address. An insightful resource for scholars of both Korean political economy and commons studies more broadly.

Author : Woosung Bae
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000588828

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Confucian Reform in Chosŏn Korea by Woosung Bae Pdf

Pan’gye surok (or "Pan’gye’s Random Jottings") was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn(1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society. It was recognised as a leading work of political science by Yu’s contemporaries and continues to be a key text in understanding the intellectual culture of the late Joseon period. Yu describes the problems of the political and social realities of 17th Century Korea, reporting on his attempts to solve these problems using a Confucian philosophical approach. In doing so, he establishes most of the key terminology relating to politics and society in Korea in the late Joseon. His writings were used as a model for reforms within Korea over the following centuries, inspiring social pioneers like Yi Ik and Chŏng Yakyong. Pan’gye surok demonstrates how Confucian thought spread outside China and how it was modified to fit the situation on the Korean peninsula. Providing both the first English translation of the full Pan’gyesurok text as well as glossaries, notes and research papers on the importance of the text, this four volume set is an essential resource for international scholars of Korean and East Asian history.

Author : Soon-Yang Kim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000644487

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Social Policy Dynamics in South Korea by Soon-Yang Kim Pdf

Kim offers unique insight into the deeper political dynamics of Korean social policy by analysing the relationship between the broader context of East Asian commonality and the unique circumstances of Korea. Since the 1980s, South Korea has advanced social policy at a rapid pace with the progress of political democracy and the activation of civil society. Currently, South Korea is equipped with a full range of social policies including public assistance, social insurance, and social services. However, South Korea's road to a remarkable social policy accomplishment was not a smooth one and controversies sizzled over the values, directions, and methods of social policy. Kim delves into the political dynamics of Korea's social policy, spanning from the traditional kingdom era to contemporary South Korea. In doing so he examines the influences of Confucianism, developmental welfareism, and the responses to the Asian economic crisis in shaping these policies. An important resource not only for scholars and students of Korean society and social policy, but also for scholars of social policy more broadly, especially those with a focus on other East Asian countries.

Author : Hyunseon Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000778717

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Korean Film and Festivals by Hyunseon Lee Pdf

This book examines the various film festivals where Korean cinema plays a significant role, both inside and outside of Korea, focusing on their history, structure and function, and analysis of successful festival films. Using Korean film festivals and Korean cinema at international film festivals as its primary lens, this interdisciplinary volume explores the shifting relationships between the multi-media genre of film and the fast-growing changing world of film festival cultures. It examines the changing aesthetics of Korean film in a transcultural context and historical (dis)continuity from a variety of angles from film and media studies, literary and cultural studies, Korean studies, Japanese studies, and also from film festival practice. Moreover, through comprehensive examinations of both domestic and international film festivals from the perspectives of production, distribution and marketing it highlights the reception of Korean cinema outside of Korea in an increasingly globalised industry. Featuring the contributions of expert scholars of international film and Korean cinema, in addition to interview material with a practicing film professional, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Korean and Asian film and media studies, as well as those interested in the impact of film festivals more generally.

Author : Eun-Jeong Han,Min Wha Han,JongHwa Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498599238

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Korean Diaspora across the World by Eun-Jeong Han,Min Wha Han,JongHwa Lee Pdf

This edited volume analyzes the Korean diaspora across the world and traces the meaning and the performance of homeland. The contributors explore different types of discourses among Korean diaspora across the world, such as personal/familial narratives, oral/life histories, public discourses, and media discourses. They also examine the notion of “space” to diasporic experiences, arguing meanings of space/place for Korean diaspora are increasingly multifaceted.

Author : Loet Leydesdorff
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1581126816

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The Challenge of Scientometrics by Loet Leydesdorff Pdf

Scientometrics--the quantitative study of scientific communication--challenges science and technology studies by demonstrating that organized knowledge production and control is amenable to measurement. First, the various dimensions of the empirical study of the sciences are clarified in a methodological analysis of theoretical traditions, including the sociology of scientific knowledge and neo-conventionalism in the philosophy of science. Second, the author argues why the mathematical theory of communication enables us to address crucial problems in science and technology studies, both on the qualitative side (e.g., the significance of a reconstruction) and on the quantitative side (e.g., the prediction of indicators). A comprehensive set of probabilistic entropy measures for studying complex developments in networks is elaborated. In the third part of the study, applications to S&T policy questions (e.g., the emergence of a European R&D system), to problems of (Bayesian) knowledge representations, and to the study of the sciences in terms of 'self-organizing' paradigms of scientific communication are provided. A discussion of directions for further research concludes the study.