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  • The Internet as a facilitator of cultural hybridization and interpersonal relationship management for Asian international students in South Korea

    • Authors: Kyung-Hee Kim; Haejin Yun; Youngmin Yoon (2009)

  • This study suggests that Internet-mediated communication played an important role for Asian international students in South Korea in maintaining and strengthening tightly-knit, emotionally close relationships such as family and close friends. Alternatively, Internet-mediated communication allowed these students to make connections with members of the same ethnic groups in South Korea as well as South Korean students; however, the main goal of these new connections was to gain informational resources. Interview data disclosed that Asian international students maintained a transcultural space in the online world. Because the Internet is an open space, the respondents had navigated among numerous South Korean sites before arriving in South Korea and had become regular consumers of con...
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  • Clash in South Korean heritage? A case study of work values among South Koreans and Korean-Americans

    • Authors: Eun-Jeong Han; Jeanne S. McPherson (2009)

  • This article summarizes a case-study analysis of work values among four types of South Koreans: a traditional South Korean, three young-adult South Koreans, a white South Korean-American, and a black South Korean-American, all of whom worked at a South Korean-owned small business. Data for this qualitative study were drawn from an exploratory survey, 50 hours of participant observa-tion, a focus group interview, and two in-depth interviews. The findings challenge cultural concepts about South Koreans, offering a postmodern perspective to explain the differences and similarities among co-ethnic workers. This study underscores a need for further research on evolving work values among South Koreans and South Korean-Americans working in the United States. Such research has implications ...
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  • Politics of representation in the era of globalization: discourse about marriage migrant women in two South Korean films

    • Authors: Sumi Kim (2009)

  • The complexity of globalization challenges our understanding of culture and identity as these are reshaped by dominant/marginal identity relations that become increasingly fluid across transnational space. Ex/neo-colonial South Korea, growing in economic power and transnational cultural influence mostly in Asia, has become a host to Asian immigrants. Accompanying the changing ethnoscape, media discourse constitutes (more than reflects) immigrant identities and their experiences. Study of discourse in two South Korean films about marriage migrant women reveals constructions that serve new nation-building policies in the global era while maintaining traditional assumptions about, and realities of, gender, race/ethnic, and class relations.
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  • The bad guy is one of us: framing comparison between the US and Korean newspapers and blogs about the Virginia Tech shooting

    • Authors: Kyounghee Hazel Kwon; Shin-Il Moon (2009)

  • This study examines cross-national and cross-media differences in framing, particularly regarding the salience of collectivistic storytelling, based on the US and Korean newspapers and blogs about the Virginia Tech campus shooting incident. Although collectivistic storytelling is a common practice of news domestication, the degree of its salience is affected by a nation’s orientation toward collectivism. Cross-media level of difference also exists because journal-istic perspectives and the public’s interpretation of those perspectives, as reflected in newspapers and blogs, are different. Findings indicate that while there are some consistent framing patterns, the degree of collectivism was different between the two nations and between the two media.
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  • Globalization, or the logic of cultural hybridization: the case of the Korean wave

    • Authors: Woongjae Ryoo (2009)

  • This article explores a regionally specific phenomenon and logic of transnational popular cultural flow as an example to illustrate the complexity involved in the cultural hybridization thesis and the implications that it has for the debate on the globalization of culture. This article argues that the Korean wave is an indication of new global, as well as local, transformations in the cultural and the economic arena. This phenomenon especially signifies a regionalization of transnational cultural flows as it entails Asian countries’ increasing acceptance of cultural production and consumption from neighboring countries that share similar historical and cultural backgrounds, rather than from politically and economic-ally powerful others. The article further argues that the Korean wav...
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  • News values of sports events: an application of a newsworthiness model on the World Cup coverage of US and Korean media

    • Authors: Jong Hyuk Lee; Yun Jung Choi (2009)

  • This study examined whether news value indicators influenced sports coverage of the 2002 World Cup soccer games by using a newsworthiness model. The model hypothesized that the more significant and the more deviant an event is, the more prominently the event is covered by the media. Significance and deviance of each match in the World Cup games are operationally defined by using world rankings such as FIFA points, William Hill betting points, and CNN power rankings. Prominence of media coverage for each match was measured as the dependent variable in four different contexts: US traditional media, US online media, Korean traditional media, and Korean online media. The results of our study show that the newsworthiness model is partially effective in predicting media coverage of sport...
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  • Gender stereotypes and normative heterosexuality in matrimonial ads from globalizing India

    • Authors: Srividya Ramasubramanian; Parul Jain (2009)

  • Matrimonial ads serve as unobtrusive sites to observe the construction and perpetuation of normative heterosexuality through socio-cultural discourses. The current study focuses on gendered spousal expectations and sex role preferences in 1065 matrimonial ads from two popular newspapers in India. Gender differences in ad type, financial stability, physical attractiveness, fairness, slimness, personality traits, and occupational preferences were examined. Results found support for social exchange of men’s financial stability for women’s physical attractiveness, gender polarization in ideal spousal occupations, and the relative fluidity in gender identities of women as compared to men. A strong preference for fair and slim women was observed. Implications for sexual objectification of...
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  • Collective behavior in YouTube: a case study of ‘Bus Uncle’ online videos

    • Authors: Donna Chu (2009)

  • The study reported herein aimed to identify and discuss the nature and pattern of the uses of new media through a notable YouTube phenomenon. It analyzed 132 online videos centered on ‘Bus Uncle,’ a YouTube celebrity who rose into fame in Hong Kong during April 2006. Most of the videos drew references from local popular culture texts. They were mostly playful and sarcastic in their undertones. The collective behaviors in YouTube suggest that this hugely popular video-sharing site takes on the roles as public space, a playground and a cultural public sphere.
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  • Book reviews

    • Authors: Liew Kai Khiun; Chi-Yun Shin (2009)

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