Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Hyunjin Seo
Keyword(s):  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Methodological Approaches

This chapter serves as an overview of the book and orients readers to subsequent chapters. It provides major contexts for networked collective actions and offers a quick look at the emergence of nontraditional intermediaries and their dynamic interactions with traditional intermediaries. Then the chapter introduces South Korean citizens’ candlelight vigils in 2016 and 2017 calling for the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye and discusses how the impeachment example is an instance of the complex changes being observed in collective actions facilitated by digital communication technologies. The chapter briefly explains theoretical and methodological approaches used in this book in analyzing the intricate relationships between various agents (e.g., individuals, institutions, bots/algorithms) and their interactions with relevant affordances during South Korean citizens’ candlelight vigils demanding Park’s impeachment. The chapter ends with a brief summary of the focus of subsequent chapters.

Candlelight Vigils and Citizen Activism

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Hyunjin Seo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Citizen Activism ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Armored Vehicle ◽  
Social Collective

This chapter focuses on modern political and social collective actions in South Korea to illustrate how changing information ecosystems have influenced the ways protests and candlelight vigils have been organized over the past several decades. In particular, the chapter explains how Internet and digital communication technologies began to be used to facilitate collective actions in South Korea in a series of candlelight vigils beginning in 2002, when two South Korean teenage girls were killed by a U.S. armored vehicle. It also covers other major candlelight vigils, including 2004 vigils against the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun and 2008 vigils against U.S. beef importation. In examining candlelight vigils at different time points and stages of technological development, it considers both what changed and what has remained largely the same, while highlighting key agents and affordances and their interactions at each time period analyzed.

scholarly journals O uso social das tecnologias de comunicação pelo surdo: limites e possibilidades para o desenvolvimento da linguagem

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Clélia Maria Ignatius Nogueira ◽  
Marília Ignatius Nogueira Carneiro ◽  
Tânia Dos Santos Alvarez da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Educational Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Written Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Use ◽  
Made In

Resumo: Desde a década de 1990 os surdos vivenciam uma intensa transformação em sua vida social, em função da naturalização da comunicação digital, e educacional, com a mudança de paradigma do oralismo para o bilinguismo. Este artigo apresenta resultados de investigação realizada em três etapas com dez sujeitos surdos, buscando identificar a) a importância atribuída por eles à escrita e a competência na utilização da comunicação digital; b) sua percepção acerca dos equívocos cometidos em suas produções escritas e c) sua competência na interpretação de textos para identificar os limites e as possibilidades de desenvolvimento da língua escrita, pelo uso social das tecnologias de comunicação pelos surdos. Os resultados apontaram a ressignificação do sentido social da escrita do Português para os surdos proporcionada pela comunicação digital, o que poderia ser explorado pela escola.Palavras-chave: Educação de surdos; Comunicação digital; Língua Portuguesa escrita. The social use of communication technologies by the deaf: limits and possibilities for the development of the languageAbstract: From the 1990s the deaf experience an intense transformation in their social life, due to the naturalization of digital and educational communication, with the paradigm shift from oralism to bilingualism. This article presents research carried out through three moments with ten deaf individuals, seeking to identify : a) the importance they attributed to writing and their competence in the use of digital communication; b) their perception about the mistakes made in their written productions and c) their competence in the interpretation of texts and thus identify the limits and possibilities for the development of written language, the social use of communication technologies by the deaf. The results pointed out the re-signification of their social sense of the Portuguese writing for the deaf, provided by the digital communication which could be explored by the school.Keywords: Education of the deaf; Digital communication; Written Portuguese language. 

One Foot on the Streets, One Foot on the Web

2018 ◽  
pp. 443-453
Author(s):  
Paolo Gerbaudo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Digital Politics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Web

Digital communication technologies are modifying how social movements communicate internally and externally and the way participants are organized and mobilized. This transformation calls for a rethinking of how we conceive of and analyze them. Scholars cannot be content with studying the digital and the physical or the online and the offline separately, but must explore the imbrication between these aspects by studying how the elements of social movements combine in a political “ensemble,” an ecosystem, or an action texture, defining the possibilities and limits of collective action. This chapter proposes a qualitative methodology combining analysis of digital media with observations of events and interviews with participants to develop a holistic account of collective action. This methodology is best positioned to capture the changing nature and meaning of protest action in a digital era, producing a “thick account” of the relationship between digital politics and everyday life.

Ethical Standards and ‘Communication’ Technologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Onora O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Degree Of Protection ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Personal A ◽  
Personal Content ◽  
Speech Content

Discussion of the ethics of digital communication often focuses on the speech content communicated, rather than on the speech acts performed. This can be illustrated by data protection approaches to rights to privacy, which seek to prevent the reuse of personal content unless the relevant data subjects give informed consent. Unfortunately, the partition of content into personal and non-personal is insecure: personal data can sometimes be inferred from data not seen as personal. A more robust approach to digital ethics would focus on communicative action, and would query the degree of protection and above all the anonymity available to those who control and organize others’ digital communication.

Networked Collective Actions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunjin Seo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
South Korean ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Key Participants

Massive and sustained candlelight vigils in 2016–2017, the most significant citizen-led protests in the history of democratic South Korea, led to the impeachment and removal of then President Park Geun-hye. These protests took place in a South Korean media environment characterized by polarization and low public trust, and where conspiracy theories and false claims by those opposing impeachment were frequently amplified by extreme right-wing media outlets. How then was it possible for pro-impeachment protests seeking major social change to succeed? And why did pro-Park protesters and government efforts to defend Park ultimately fail? An agent-affordance framework is introduced to explain how key participants (agents), including journalists, citizens, social media influencers, bots, and civic organizations, together produced a broad citizen consensus that Park should be removed from office. This was accomplished by creatively employing affordances made available by South Korea’s history, legal system, and technologies. New empirical evidence illustrates the ongoing significant roles of both traditional and nontraditional agents as they continue to co-adapt to affordances provided by changing information environments. Interviews with key players yield firsthand descriptions of events. The interviews, original content analyses of media reports, and examination of social media posts combine to provide strong empirical support for the agent-affordance framework. Lessons drawn from citizen-led protests surrounding Park Geun-hye’s removal from office in South Korea are used to offer suggestions for how technology-enabled affordances may support and constrain movements for social change elsewhere in the world.

Development of Digital Communication Technologies and the New Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-175
Author(s):  
Elif Ulker-Demirel
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
Technological Structure

From day to day, an ever-changing and differentiated technological structure has played an essential role in the change of relations between businesses, people, and society in general. Along with the technological innovations being a part of everyday life, besides the traditional communication tools used, many different mechanisms have become a necessity in our lives. However, this change has become a focal point for brands in the way of communicating with their target consumers. In addition to the use of traditional communication tools such as television, radio, and print media, many different aspects of advertising, along with the power of the internet and social media, exist in various forms such as mobile advertising, location-based services, advergames, blogs, online content, viral advertising, and virtual reality. At this point, it is aimed to examine the transformation of communication tools from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0 and to focus new media tools.

Megatrends in Engineering and Technology Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Patil ◽  
Henk Eijkman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Engineering And Technology Education ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Practices

Engineers and technologists increasingly have to confront socio-scientific issues and evolving communication technologies. Digital communication technologies, such as social media, are important drivers for growth and for changes in learning and in professions as well as and doing business. In the 21st century, to be a scientifically literate engineer and technologist means also to possess the communicative imagination. Thus, moving toward a future with more fully integrated social media into the world of knowledge and communication practices will be a challenging process of resolving tensions and dilemmas. This chapter presents an overview of current megatrends in communicative imagination and advanced approaches of various communication technologies in engineering and technology education. The chapter also reflects on the transformative nature of social media.

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