The making of neo-Confucian cyberkids: representations of young mobile phone users in South Korea Export

@article{citeulike:1372540, abstract = {This article addresses how young people are represented in popular discourses of mobile phone technology and what this representation implies for the local positioning of youth. After reviewing the ways in which representations of youth and technology have been discussed in previous studies, the research reported in this article analyzes different discursive constructions of young mobile phone users in South Korea between 1997 and 2002. The study finds that the different streams of discourse in government documents, the mass media and consumer culture appear to reflect widespread anxieties in Korea about becoming involved in global' material culture and seek to counter this tendency through rearticulating hegemonic social relations. 10.1177/1461444806067587}, author = {Yoon, Kyongwon}, citeulike-article-id = {1372540}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444806067587}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/5/753}, comment = {ed}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1461444806067587}, journal = {New Media Society}, keywords = {addiction, asia, backlash, children, educationalcampaigns, mobile, teen, tradition}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {753--771}, posted-at = {2007-06-08 13:12:04}, priority = {0}, title = {The making of neo-Confucian cyberkids: representations of young mobile phone users in South Korea}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444806067587}, volume = {8}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1372540 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1372540 N2 - This article addresses how young people are represented in popular discourses of mobile phone technology and what this representation implies for the local positioning of youth. After reviewing the ways in which representations of youth and technology have been discussed in previous studies, the research reported in this article analyzes different discursive constructions of young mobile phone users in South Korea between 1997 and 2002. The study finds that the different streams of discourse in government documents, the mass media and consumer culture appear to reflect widespread anxieties in Korea about becoming involved in global' material culture and seek to counter this tendency through rearticulating hegemonic social relations. 10.1177/1461444806067587 IS - 5 JF - New Media Society EP - 771 TI - The making of neo-Confucian cyberkids: representations of young mobile phone users in South Korea VL - 8 SP - 753 KW - addiction KW - asia KW - backlash KW - children KW - educationalcampaigns KW - mobile KW - teen KW - tradition N1 - ed AU - Yoon, Kyongwon PY - 2006/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444806067587 ER -