Technology, culture, and meanings: how the discourses of progress and modernity have shaped South Korea’s Internet diffusion
| Autor: | Inkyu Kang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
Essentialism business.industry Communication Modernity media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Media studies 050801 communication & media studies Gender studies 0508 media and communications Information and Communications Technology 0502 economics and business Personal computer National identity Semiotics The Symbolic The Internet Sociology 050207 economics business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Media, Culture & Society. 39:727-739 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3675 0163-4437 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0163443717709445 |
| Popis: | South Korea is often called the ‘time machine’ or ‘world’s best laboratory’ to get a glimpse of how broadband services may evolve in the future. However, the Internet was not embraced actively en masse until 1998, when the nation was suffering a deepening economic crisis. In only half a decade, South Korea leapt to the most wired nation. What brought such a drastic change? This article seeks an answer by exploring the symbolic and semiotic aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), focusing on the implications of personal computer (PC) use. Against economic essentialism, this study examines the relationship between ICTs and discourses of ‘modernity’, ‘progress’, and ‘national identity’ in Korea in comparison with Japan. |
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