| Autor: |
Berry, Chris, Martin, Fran |
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Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia; 2003, p87-114, 28p, 1 Chart, 3 Graphs |
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This article explores the role of computers and computer-mediated communication in the emergence and growth of gay culture in Korea and Taiwan during the 1990s. In Taiwan, there are several technologies used for Internet activities available, and interactions using them are primarily Chinese character-text-based. As in Taiwan, individual Web pages are less popular in Korea than sites that facilitate a high degree of interaction, and the Korean sites that do this also use predominantly Korean script. That online communities function as social units is suggested by the fact that users of a particular site may know each other's identity and become friends offline, the site taking on the function of a club. One feature that distinguishes both Taiwan members-of-the-same-sex sites and Korean Web sites from other specialized sites is that at these sites, anything gets discussed, regardless of whether it bears a direct or obvious relation to sexuality as such. |
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Complementary Index |
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