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Transnational communities in the smartphone age : the Korean community in the nation's capital / Dae Young Kim.
Van Pelt Library E184.K6 K4258 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Dae-Young, author.
- Series:
- Korean communities across the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean Americans--Washington Metropolitan Area.
- Korean Americans.
- Koreans--Washington Metropolitan Area.
- Koreans.
- Transnationalism--Social aspects--United States.
- Transnationalism.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- This book examines Korean immigrants' transnational activities, in particular their consumption of transnational media, and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet and smartphones, on cross-border engagement and its impact on their sense of home, identity, and belonging.
- Contents:
- Transnational ties and their impact on the Korean community
- Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Korean immigrants in the Washington-Baltimore area
- Connecting with the home country: information and communication technologies (ICT) and transnational media/television
- Transnational activities of Korean immigrants
- Cultural transnational activities: the consumption of transnational media / with Young A. Jung and Gyu Tag Lee
- Where is home?: identity and belonging in the digital age
- Compatibility of assimilation with ethnic preservation and transnationalism
- Overview and implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781498541756
- 1498541755
- OCLC:
- 1005690399
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