Redefining immobility with mediated mobilities

Reflections from South Korean quarantine vlogs

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ID12656141
AuthorsJiwon Yun (0000-0001-7179-5523, Yale University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume26
Issue11
Pages6678-6694
Publication date2023-03-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448231156992
OpenAlexW4323047444
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited57

This article challenges the notion that mediated mobilities are mere substitutes to physical mobilities. It proposes that practising mediated mobilities, especially in the form of vlogging, is a generative process by which individuals can redefine their experience of immobility during quarantine. To support this argument, the article analyses quarantine vlogs uploaded by individuals who were quarantined in South Korean quarantine facilities in 2020. The vlogs reveal that individuals turn to mediated mobilities as an adaptive strategy, but also shows that the practice of vlogging itself emerges as a means to redefine quarantine in vloggers’ own terms. Ultimately, the article demonstrates how some vloggers turn the quarantine experience as a resource to be mobilized and how the practice of vlogging itself becomes a strategy to capitalize on the immobility

Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Mobilities · Quarantine · Social science · Sociology · Upload · World Wide Web · Computer Science · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Medicine · Ecology

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