Korean Cosmetic Surgery and Digital Publicity: Beauty by Korean Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Davies ◽  
Gil-Soo Han
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Export Market ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between digital publicity and cosmetic surgery. While focused on South Korea, it also discusses China because of the conspicuous Chinese demand for Korean cosmetic surgery in recent years. In fact, China has become the largest export market for Korean cosmetic surgery. The analysis is based on the premise that there is a vital link between cosmetic surgery and digital technology in both these countries. We argue that the celebrity culture spawned by entertainment media has facilitated the normalisation of cosmetic surgery to the extent that it is commonly viewed, quite unproblematically, as a form of human physiological enhancement. The article examines the publicity surrounding cosmetic surgery (comprising media reports, advertisements and commentaries) to see how it is presented in the Korean media and on the internet. These findings are then considered in relation to the promotion of Korean cosmetic surgery in China.

scholarly journals Personal Readings and Public Texts: Book Blogs and Online Writing about Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Social Realm ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
The Relationship

The blogging culture has become an important and integrated part of the book trade and has influenced the publishing, marketing and distribution of literature in North America and in many European countries. However, it is unclear how this potential agency among bloggers operates, and thus far most research has concerned politics, media systems and larger social structures. The present article is a study of the Swedish book blogs during the autumn of 2009 and an attempt to address a small, but significant, part of the Internet influence. The relationship between books and digital technology is complicated and manifold, but it is clear that the Internet has changed how people access books, how they read and how they communicate with others about their reading. Here, the position of the amateur is one that will be discussed in detail in terms of professionalism, strategies and hierarchies. Another issue that will be addressed is the connections between the book bloggers and the book trade, especially the publishers and their marketing departments. The book bloggers operate in a social realm, despite the fact that their writing is personal, and have to be understood in their social, economic and literary context. The Swedish book blogs will be analysed with the help of readerresponse theory, sociology of literature and a book historical perspective on the dissemination of literature.

scholarly journals A Cidade entre Imagens e Imaginários: Algumas contribuições dos olhares skatistas

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio Feliciano
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Hybrid Device ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Resumo:Esse trabalho discute a importância da produção visual, sobretudo, a fotografia, na constituição da imagem da cidade. Aborda, também, o papel da tecnologia digital na composição das subjetividades contemporâneas e suas contribuições para se fortalecer uma cultura urbana, mesmo em meio às limitações impostas pela sociedade. Para sua realização observou-se etnograficamente um grupo de skatistas, em uma pista de skate, numa cidade do interior de São Paulo. A importância dada ao celular foi um traço recorrente que permeou grande parte das discussões. Portar um aparelho híbrido e produzir imagens é uma maneira de contribuir para a construção do imaginário sobre a cidade, sobretudo, quando essas imagens veiculam pela internet. Acredita-se que o trabalho traz problematizações sobre os jovens na relação consigo, com o outro, com o grupo e com a cidade.Palavras-chave: Subjetividade. Cidade. Jovem. Skatista. Tecnologia  THE CITY BETWEEN IMAGES AND IMAGINARY: SOME CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SKATEBOARDERS' EYES Abstract: This work discusses the importance of visual production, especially photography, in the constitution of the city’s image. It also addresses the role of digital technology in the composition of contemporary subjectivities and its contributions to strengthening an urban culture, even amid the limitations imposed by society. For its realization it was observed ethnographically a group of skateboarders, in a skate track, in a city of the interior of São Paulo. The importance given to cellular was a recurrent trait that permeated much of the discussions. Carrying a hybrid device and producing images is a way of contributing to the construction of the imaginary about the city, especially when these images are transmitted through the internet. It is believed that the work brings problematizations about young people in the relationship with themselves, with the other, with the group and with the city.Keywords: Subjectivity. City. Young. Skater. Technology

Divine Revelation and Digital Religion

2021 ◽  
pp. 650-664
Author(s):  
Zachary Sheldon ◽  
Heidi A. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Fundamental Component ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
Worship Practices ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter considers the relationship between divine revelation and digital religion by exploring how revelation of divine or religious truth is presented and negotiated on the internet and within digital culture. Revelation is a fundamental component of religious practice and experience and has long been studied in its relation to mediation. Digital culture offers unique resources that allow individuals to receive, engage, and share in divine revelation in digital contexts. The multiplicity of digital contexts and their blended ties to offline practices in worship practices have become known as digital religion (Campbell 2013), which can be likened to a bridge which connects and extends religious practice online into offline religious spaces and contexts. This chapter will consider how revelation is understood and enacted in different spaces of digital religion by providing an overview of Digital Religion Studies and looking at Campbell and DeLashmutt’s (2014) research on multi-site churches to offer insights into how churches structure and negotiate their digital worship practices to assist people in engaging with divine revelation. In particular, we emphasize questions of presence and authority that churches ought to consider in regard to how their use of digital technology may impact views on divine revelation in digital contexts.

scholarly journals MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY: DIGITAL OPTIMISTS AND DIGITAL PESSIMISTS

2017 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Anka Mihajlov Prokopovic
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Variable Intensity ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
The Relationship

This work examines the relationship between mass media and digital technology by following McChesney’s argument (2013) that the division on the technological optimists and technological pessimists is gaining in significance again. The debate between these two currents, which has been ongoing since the beginning of the Internet with variable intensity, has enabled many advantages and many disadvantages brought by the digital age is discussed in its “pure form''. The work is conceptualization of the following themes: the nature of the mass media, the characteristics of digital life, citizens' participation in the creation of content on digital platforms and the future of journalism, as they are seen by these two theoretical approaches.

scholarly journals Disinhibisi Online sebagai Mediator Hubungan antara Kebingungan Identitas dan Cyberbullying pada Remaja

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Fadjri Kirana Anggarani ◽  
Fitri Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Identity Confusion ◽  
Behavior Scale ◽  
Online Disinhibition ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mediator Variable

Cyberbullying behavior utilized the use of digital technology and the internet as a medium for bullying. The purpose of this study was to examine the function of online disinhibition as a mediator of the relationship between identity confusion and cyberbullying in adolescents. Participants in the study were 12 to 15 years old or adolescents, which consisted of 151 men and 196 women. Data collection was performed using 3 scales namely the Cyberbullying Behavior Scale, the identity confusion scale, and the online disinhibition scale. The data obtained were tested using regression analysis with mediator variable with the help of IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0. The results showed that there was an effect of online disinhibition mediation on the relationship of identity confusion with cyberbullying. The result of MacKinnon analysis shows that the direct effect gives a bigger effect than the indirect effect.The results of the additional analysis show that males do more cyberbullying behavior; the higher the duration of internet and social media use, the more cyberbullying behavior that will be carried out by adolescents. These results indicated that adolescents and cyberbullying have many factors that required further research.Keywords: Cyberbullying, online disinhibition, identity confusion, adolescents Abstrak: Perilaku cyberbullying memanfaatkan penggunaan teknologi digital dan internet sebagai media untuk melakukan aksi bullying. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji fungsi disinhibisi online sebagai mediator hubungan antara kebingungan identitas dan cyberbullying pada remaja. Partisipan dalam penelitian berusia 12 sampai dengan 15 tahun atau remaja yang terdiri dari 151 laki-laki dan 196 perempuan. Pengumpulan data dilakukan menggunakan 3 skala yaitu Skala Perilaku Cyberbullying, Skala kebingungan identitas, dan Skala disinhibisi online. Data yang diperoleh diuji menggunakan analisis regresi dengan melibatkan variabel mediator dengan bantuan IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada pengaruh mediasi disinhibisi online pada hubungan kebingungan identitas dengan cyberbullying. Perhitungan peranan menggunakan MacKinnon diperoleh hasil bahwa efek langsung memberikan peran lebih besar dibandingkan efek tidak langsung. Hasil analisis tambahan menunjukkan bahwa laki-laki lebih banyak melakukan perilaku cyberbullying; semakin tinggi durasi penggunaan internet dan sosial media semakin banyak pula perilaku cyberbullying yang akan dilakukan remaja. Hasil ini menunjukkan bahwa remaja dan cyberbullying memiliki banyak faktor yang memerlukan penelitian lanjutan.

Blockchain and Copyright

2022 ◽  
pp. 125-145
Author(s):  
Pedro Pina
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
New Model ◽  
Copyright Policy ◽  
Private Ordering ◽  
Digital Copyright ◽  
Privacy Law ◽  
The Relationship

Advances in the field of digital technology are constantly introducing new levels of controversy into copyright policy. Blockchain is the most recent technology with significative impact in digital copyright. Combined with smart contracts, blockchain enables new efficient forms of distribution of copyrighted works and also a new model of private ordering regarding the control of uses of works on the Internet. The chapter aims to examine the relationship and the most relevant intersections between blockchain, digital exploitation of copyrighted works, copyright law, and privacy law.

Technology, culture, and meanings: how the discourses of progress and modernity have shaped South Korea’s Internet diffusion

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 727-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inkyu Kang
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Personal Computer ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Time Machine ◽  
Internet Diffusion ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

South Korea is often called the ‘time machine’ or ‘world’s best laboratory’ to get a glimpse of how broadband services may evolve in the future. However, the Internet was not embraced actively en masse until 1998, when the nation was suffering a deepening economic crisis. In only half a decade, South Korea leapt to the most wired nation. What brought such a drastic change? This article seeks an answer by exploring the symbolic and semiotic aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), focusing on the implications of personal computer (PC) use. Against economic essentialism, this study examines the relationship between ICTs and discourses of ‘modernity’, ‘progress’, and ‘national identity’ in Korea in comparison with Japan.

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