Pages 81-93 – Kyoungwon Yoon – ‘Domesticating Communication Technologies in Korean Families’

In recent media discourse in the Republic of Korea (Korea hereafter), new technology has been frequently equated with the loss of local identity in favour of an individualised mode of communication. In media representation, young people in particular tend to be described as moving rapidly out of a family-oriented social framework, assumed to be essential to Korean identity.

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