Is Korea a Strong Internet Nation?

Kim, Pyungho

doi:10.1080/01972240500388206

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“…Rapid diffusion of new technologies and the tendency of their early adoption in Korea caused keen competition among the media in the national market while Korea was still neither a technological leader nor a wealthy and developed nation. On this account, so many current ICT diffusion studies (Choudrie et al, 2003;Kim, 2006;BG Lee et al, 2009;Oh et al, 2003;Song, 2007) have focused on Korean communication trends because it is an innovative country. Therefore, the analysis of Korean new media diffusion will help not only to forecast new media diffusions in other countries, especially developing countries, but also to build a global diffusion model of new media.…”

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Communication media diffusion and substitutions: longitudinal trends from 1980 to 2005 in Korea

Nam

Barnett

2010

New Media & Society

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This study analyzes longitudinal trends in Korean use of (1) domestic mail, (2) international mail, (3) domestic telephone calls, (4) international outgoing telephone calls, (5) telex, (6) mobile telephones, (7) televisions and (8) the internet to examine the media's displacement or supplementary effects. The results show that international mail, domestic telephone and telex can be best described by a quadratic indicating they are undergoing disadoption while the trends for domestic mail and international telephone calls show exponential growth. Correlations confirmed that new media have displaced international mail, domestic telephone and telex, yet they do not substitute for domestic letters and international telephone calls. Finally, television, mobile telephones and the internet are at the exponential or logistic growth stage and supplement each other.

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Communication media diffusion and substitutions: longitudinal trends from 1980 to 2005 in Korea

Nam

Barnett

2010

New Media & Society

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“…To investigate cultural differences at the collective level, past research has examined themes in magazine advertisements (H. Kim & Markus, 1999) and in popular music lyrics (Snibbe & Markus, 2005) as meaningful public representations of cultural values that offer a more complete understanding of divergent cultural models (Morling & Lamoreaux, 2008). In the present study, we conducted a content analysis of mission statements on church websites, as they are publicly shared venues for the church's values and practices (K. Kim, 2007;Sturgill, 2004) and are ubiquitous in both the United States and Korea (e.g., P. Kim, 2006;Rhee & Kim, 2006;Stevens, Dunn, Loudon, & Cole, 2002). Specifically, Study 1 examined how culturally shaped religious teachings may manifest themselves in cultural products (i.e., online church mission statements) in European American and Korean cultural contexts.…”

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At the intersection of culture and religion: A cultural analysis of religion's implications for secondary control and social affiliation.

Sasaki¹,

Kim²

2011

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Religion helps people maintain a sense of control, particularly secondary control-acceptance of and adjustment to difficult situations--and contributes to strengthening social relationships in a religious community. However, little is known about how culture may influence these effects. The current research examined the interaction of culture and religion on secondary control and social affiliation, comparing people from individualistic cultures (e.g., European Americans), who tend to be more motivated toward personal agency, and people from collectivistic cultures (e.g., East Asians), who tend to be more motivated to maintain social relationships. In Study 1, an analysis of online church mission statements showed that U.S. websites contained more themes of secondary control than did Korean websites, whereas Korean websites contained more themes of social affiliation than did U.S. websites. Study 2 showed that experimental priming of religion led to acts of secondary control for European Americans but not Asian Americans. Using daily diary methodology, Study 3 showed that religious coping predicted more secondary control for European Americans but not Koreans, and religious coping predicted more social affiliation for Koreans and European Americans. These findings suggest the importance of understanding sociocultural moderators for the effects of religion.

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“…Given these unique characteristics of the internet environment, Korea rightly deserves such characterizations as 'a strong Internet nation' (Kim, 2006), or at least 'the world leader in broadband' (Lacy, 2005). Thus, Korean cases may offer a convenient means for making a relevant investigation into the future of online news diffusion.…”

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The emerging mediascape, same old theories? A case study of online news diffusion in Korea

Kim

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New Media & Society

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This article aims to re-examine the main ideas of traditional diffusion study in the context of the internet. Two news stories, one initiated by an established news organization and one uploaded by an individual internet user, were selected for our case study. The study analyzed how a news story gets carried on through various websites of media organizations and individuals. We found that the original stories undergo transformations in terms of content and form over time in the diffusion process. The authors hence introduce a new concept, 'seed news', in order to explain this transformative online news diffusion phenomenon. The concept of seed news may subsume the manifold and dynamic process of diffusion, addition, displacement, evolution, and decline of the news story. It also comes to terms with the multifarious dimensions of transmission and the active interplay between the media and users, or among the users themselves.

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Is Korea a Strong Internet Nation?

Cited by 19 publications

References 14 publications

Communication media diffusion and substitutions: longitudinal trends from 1980 to 2005 in Korea

Communication media diffusion and substitutions: longitudinal trends from 1980 to 2005 in Korea

At the intersection of culture and religion: A cultural analysis of religion's implications for secondary control and social affiliation.

The emerging mediascape, same old theories? A case study of online news diffusion in Korea

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