Social Movements as Agents of Innovation: Citizen Journalism in South Korea

Kern, Thomas; Nam, Sang-hui

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1122381

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“…Chopae, launched on May 11, 2010, had 730 members and generated 15,437 hashtags as of September 2010. As announced in its mission statement, Chopae has explicitly called for the closure of Chosunilbo , a national daily in Korea well known for its conservative-biased editorial agenda (Kern and Nam, 2009).…”

Section: Korea As a Test Bed For Online Activismmentioning

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An exploratory approach to a Twitter-based community centered on a political goal in South Korea: Who organized it, what they shared, and how they acted

Choi

Park

2013

New Media & Society

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This study provides an empirical account of how an online community has employed social media to mobilize people for a political goal. The case explored is a Twitter-based community in South Korea that calls for the elimination of a conservative national daily newspaper and whose activism is contextualized in the political history of Korea. Based on the mixed-method approach, the research results suggest that the role of the group organizer as an information provider and coordinator contributed to the sustainability of the group, and that group members formed a collective identity through the framing process of discourse. In addition, massive “retweeting” and “culture jamming” tactics were found to be strategically employed to enhance group solidarity, to broaden the base of support, and to crystallize involvement into political acts with other offline actions. Rather than decaying to an echo chamber or “slacktivism”, the online community seemed to demonstrate a new form of collective activism through the mediation of technology in everyday life.

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Section: Korea As a Test Bed For Online Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

An exploratory approach to a Twitter-based community centered on a political goal in South Korea: Who organized it, what they shared, and how they acted

Choi

Park

2013

New Media & Society

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“…Much of the literature on citizen journalism focuses on how digital media are challenging traditional gatekeeping processes, claiming that the internet "defies the whole notion of a 'gate' and challenges the idea that journalists (or anyone else) can or should limit what passes through it" (Singer, 2006, p. 265). Some scholars view citizen journalism positively as "a reconceptualization of traditional notions of the guard-dog media and the public sphere" (Antony & Thomas, 2010, p. 1280, characterizing it as a form of active citizenship that strengthens democracy (Harcup, 2011) and an invaluable resource for social movements (Kern & Nam, 2009;Kwong, 2015). Other scholars have been more critical, arguing that some public engagement practices embraced by news organizations, such as allowing user contributions on websites, are not true citizen journalism as these often serve not as actual news content but as news sources used by the professional journalists to supplement their own work (Bakker & Pantti, 2009;Storm, 2006).…”

Section: The Syrian Crisis Social Media and Citizen Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Too Crowded for Crowdsourced Journalism: Reddit, Portability, and Citizen Participation in the Syrian Crisis

Mitchell

Lim

2018

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Background This article explores the complexity of citizen participation in social media and crowdsourced journalism by utilizing the case of r/SyrianCivilWar, the sub-community of Reddit where users discuss the Syrian crisis.Analysis In examining the limitations and affordances of the platform, the article identifies features that characterize the r/SyrianCivilWar community, namely: algorithmic driven public discourse, deliberative communication, reflexivity and transparency, and database journalism. These features shape the functioning of the community and have broader implications for citizen crowdsourced journalism projects.Conclusion and implications The article demonstrates that alternative media practices, such as crowdsourced journalism, are limited in their capacity to reach mainstream consciousness. In the commodified landscape of media, portability—a capacity for complex issues to be distilled into a simple or simplified concept—is made important.Contexte Cet article explore la complexité de la participation citoyenne dans les médias sociaux et dans le journalisme financé collectivement en recourant au cas de r/SyrianCivilWar, communauté sur Reddit où l’on discute de la crise syrienne.Analyse En examinant les limites et avantages de la plateforme, cet article identifie certaines caractéristiques de la communauté r/SyrianCivilWar, à savoir : un discours public basé sur des algorithmes, une communication délibérative, la réflexivité et la transparence, et un journalisme de données. Ces caractéristiques influencent le fonctionnement de la communauté et ont des implications plus larges pour les projets journalistiques financés collectivement par les citoyens.Conclusion et implications Cet article démontre que les pratiques médiatiques alternatives, telles que le journalisme financé collectivement, sont limitées dans leur capacité à rejoindre le grand public. Le caractère commercialisé des médias traditionnels rend importante la portabilité, c’est-à-dire la possibilité de transformer des questions complexes en concepts simples ou simplifiés.

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“…First, the received dominance, agenda-setting ability, and mobilizing power of the conservative papers were significantly challenged and broken by the active and well-coordinated online networks and alternative forms of media channels. As previously stated, a number of citizens – including ‘citizen journalists’ and independent cultural workers – were able to gather a variety of substantial information about mad cow disease and the government’s handling of the beef issue, including official and expert-created documents and statements, and disseminated and shared their views and analyses, and activated deliberations through multiple online channels (Kern and Nam, 2009). It should be emphasized that this was a pursuit and result of a self-reflective learning process and horizontal networking that was done with much speed, impact, and energy.…”

Section: Media Representations and The Fierce Struggles Over Meaningmentioning

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Looking back at the candlelight protests of 2008, South Korea: Reflection on its multiple implications and lessons

Keehyeung

2017

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article revisits and critically explores the candlelight demonstrations of 2008 in South Korea through several interconnected interpretive angles. The candlelight protests emerged in early May 2008 and continued for over three months, mainly in the capital city of Seoul and other major cities. This mega event was ignited by the sudden resumption of importation of US beef products, which had been banned since 2003 due to fear of the ‘mad cow disease’. The Lee Myung-bak government lifted the ban out of political and economic considerations at the expense of public health concerns. Tens of thousands of people, including youngsters, women, urban professionals, civic groups, intellectuals and ‘netizens’ participated the demonstrations. What was distinct about this historic event was the unconventional forms of alliances and vibrant networked actions of voluntary concerned actors, who creatively generated street rallies, horizontal networks, inventive tactics, and galvanized popular support. Such embodiments of political mobilization and coalitional will from below were carried out by the extensive use of information technologies as well as the sharing of various discursive resources and charged emotions. This article attempts to illuminate the various formative and contextual factors surrounding this mega event, its key implications, achievements, limits, as well as hard-earned lessons.

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Social Movements as Agents of Innovation: Citizen Journalism in South Korea

Cited by 6 publications

References 74 publications

An exploratory approach to a Twitter-based community centered on a political goal in South Korea: Who organized it, what they shared, and how they acted

An exploratory approach to a Twitter-based community centered on a political goal in South Korea: Who organized it, what they shared, and how they acted

Too Crowded for Crowdsourced Journalism: Reddit, Portability, and Citizen Participation in the Syrian Crisis

Looking back at the candlelight protests of 2008, South Korea: Reflection on its multiple implications and lessons

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