The making of neo-Confucian cyberkids

Representations of young mobile phone users in South Korea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12656933
AutoresK Yoon (0000-0003-3055-885X, Korea University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen8
Número5
Páginas753-771
Fecha de publicación2006-09-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461444806067587
OpenAlexW2121340214
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas27

This article addresses how young people are represented in popular discourses of mobile phone technology and what this representation implies for the local positioning of youth. After reviewing the ways in which representations of youth and technology have been discussed in previous studies, the research reported in this article analyzes different discursive constructions of young mobile phone users in South Korea between 1997 and 2002. The study finds that the different streams of discourse in government documents, the mass media and consumer culture appear to reflect widespread anxieties in Korea about becoming involved in ‘global’ material culture and seek to counter this tendency through rearticulating hegemonic social relations

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