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Smartland Korea : mobile communication, culture, and society / Dal Yong Jin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jin, Dal Yong, 1964-
- Series:
- Perspectives on contemporary Korea
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects--Korea (South).
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Smartphones.
- Social aspects.
- Korea (South).
- Smartphones--Social aspects--Korea (South).
- Mobile communication systems--Korea (South).
- Mobile communication systems.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects--Korea (South).
- Technological innovations.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The dramatic advancement of cellphone technology has fundamentally changed our daily lives. Smartphones and their applications have created new capital for information and communication technology corporations and changed the way people communicate. Because of an interesting awareness of the significance for digital economy and people's daily culture, many countries, from the U.S. to China, have massively invested in the smartphone industries since the early 21st century. Although South Korea was once lagging behind in the penetration of the phones and their apps, the country has become one of the centers for technology development and digital culture. Within recent years, the country has moved swiftly toward their goal of becoming a 'mobile game wonderland' by appropriating smartphones and it now exists as a curious test-bed for the future of smartphone technology. Smartland Korea, as the first attempt to comprehensively analyze mobile communication in the context of Korean smartphones, looks into a largely neglected focus of inguiry, a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Koreans' engagement with their devices and applications. Dal Yong Jin focuses not only on the celebratory achievement of technological advancement, but also the significance of social milieu in the development of the smartphones. He situates the emergence of smartphones within the growth of mobile technologies and overall telecommunications industries embedded in Korea's information and communication technologies. The book examines the technology's innovation and evolution, the digital economy through the lens of political economy, and the youth culture embedded in the Korean smartphone context. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The rise of smartland Korea
- Evolution of smartphone technologies: putting smarts into the phone
- Neoliberal transformation of the mobile telecommunications systems
- Mobile communication, globalization, and technological hegemony
- App economy in the digital platform era
- From digital divide to digital inclusion in the smartphone era
- Transformative mobile game culture on the smartphone
- Reimagining smartphones: Kakao Talk and youth culture
- Beyond smartland Korea.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472053377
- 9780472073375
- 9780472122615
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.9332315
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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