• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1675-1691
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• 2024

The metaverse is an emerging interactive domain that enables people to participate in an array of activities utilizing cutting-edge technologies. Generation Z perceives no substantial distinction between their virtual and actual identities, regarding the virtual world as an extension of reality. As an attempt to apply Bourdieu's theory of cultural taste and cultural capital to the area of the metaverse avatar, investigates the impact of users' cultural tastes on the avatars they create and experience in the metaverse. The research employed both focus group interviews and individual in-depth interviews with users of Generation Z. The study demonstrated that Generation Z users exhibit unrestricted engagement in the metaverse, although their behavior is significantly affected by their economic situation. One's cultural tastes, influenced by diverse interactions with their parents, greatly impact how they engage in cultural activities in the metaverse. Three categories were identified from the perception of avatars: Idealized Self-Representation Avatars, Atypical Self-Representation Avatars, and Integrated Self-Representation Avatars. Perceiving avatars as an extension of the self was associated with higher cultural capital. Participants held divergent perspectives on the metaverse, with certain individuals regarding it as a realm of imagination or a limitless arena for activities.

• 기호학연구
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• 제54호
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• pp.37-63
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• 2018

본 연구는 전통춤에 나타난 대표적인 동물을 나열하여 그것이 상징하는 문화기호학적 표상에 관해 연구함으로써 한국인의 동물숭배사상과 삶의 철학을 의미화하고 한국전통예술의 정체성을 논의해 보았다. 이는 한국 문화와 예술에 관한 근원을 묻고 동물모방의 표상에 대해 문화고유의 철학적 사유를 공감하기 위함이다. 이에 한국의 동물 모방춤은 단순한 문화적 코드를 넘어서 춤에 투영되는 있는 한국인의 예술적 가치인식을 엿볼 수 있었다. 즉 주술과 성적인 은유 뿐 아니라 자연친화적 삶을 통한 순응적 태도와 현실에서의 윤리적 실천을 우선으로 예술적 미의식이 고취됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.557-574
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• 2013

이 논문은 1980년대 이후 신문화지리학의 경관 연구에서 도출된 이론적 쟁점에 주목하여, 경관의 '재현'과 '이중성'에 대한 논의를 중심으로 신문화지리학의 경관 연구에 대한 다양한 관점에서의 비평의 의미를 탐구하고자 한다. 이를 통해, 신문화지리학의 경관 이론을 고정되어 있고 폐쇄적이며 완결적인 이론 틀로 받아들이는 것이 아니라 내적으로 다양성과 차이가 뚜렷하고 시간에 따라 진화 혹은 변화해 온 이론과 방법론으로 이해하는 것이 적절하다고 주장한다. 최근 문화지리학의 현상학적 전환를 통해 문화지리학자들은 비재현 이론에 기초한 대안적 접근의 가능성을 검토하고 있으며, 이는 재현적 지리학에 대한 전면적인 성찰과 비판이기도 하다. 구체적으로 이 논문의 연구목적은 경관을 재현보다는 수행과 실천의 관점에서 이해하는 경관 연구 비판의 이론적 실천적 함의를 검토하는 것이다.

• 박물관보존과학
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• 제31권
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• pp.55-70
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• 2024

스타일 전이 알고리즘은 현재 활발히 연구되는 분야로 일반 이미지를 고전 회화 스타일로 전이시키는 알고리즘도 개발되었다. 그러나 우리나라의 문화유산 이미지에 적용하였을 때 적절한 성과를 보이지 않으며, 적용 사례도 부족한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 우리나라 문화유산 스타일로 응용할 수 있는 스타일 전이 알고리즘을 개발하고자 한다. 이는 표현 학습을 통해 유의미한 특성을 학습하여 데이터에 대한 이해도를 높였으며, 대상 이미지 내에서 배경과 문화유산을 분리하고, 스타일 이미지에서 원하는 색상과 질감의 스타일 영역을 추출할 수 있게 제작하였다. 이를 통해 대상 이미지의 형태를 유지하면서 스타일 이미지의 특징을 효과적으로 전이하여 새로운 이미지를 생성할 수 있으며, 다양한 문화유산 스타일을 전이시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.172-186
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• 2024

With the globalization of the film industry, ethnic minority films have been developed and studied by many scholars for their special ethnic representation. The film "Tharlo" directed by Pema Tseden carefully explores the identity anxiety of a Tibetan shepherd. Through the connection and separation between the protagonist and traditional culture, it shows a complexity of modern ethnic identity for minority people. This study explores what kind of cinematic techniques and symbolic elements the director uses to shape ordinary characters, build a narrative space, and show ethnic representation. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework combining cinematic quantitative methods with qualitative narrative and semiotic analysis, aiming to deepen our understanding of cinematic techniques and ethnic representation, and provides a new perspective and profound insights for discussing the complexity faced by ethnic minorities in contemporary films. This study finds that Tseden's "Tharlo" successfully portrays the complex transformation of Tibetan cultural identity in the context of globalization and modernization through cinematic techniques such as fixed camera positions, long take and black-and-white cinematography, combined with the use of symbolic elements like mirrors, lambs and identity cards.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.217-235
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• 2011

On recognizing the significance of Walter Benjamin's "The Task of a Translator" in recent discourses of postcolonial cultural translation, this essay examines the creative postcolonialist appropriations of Benjamin's theory of translation and their political implications. In an effort to dismantle the imperialist political hierarchy between the West and the non-West, modernity and its "primitive" others, which has been the operative premise of the traditional translation studies and anthropology, newly emergent discourses of cultural translation actively adopts Benjamin's notion of translation that does not prioritize the original text's claim on authenticity. Benjamin theorizes each text-translation as well as the original-as an incomplete representation of the pure language. Eschewing formalistic views propounded by deconstructionist critics like Paul de Man, who tend to regard Benjamin's notion of the untranslatable purely in terms of the failure inherent in the language system per se, such postcolonialist critics as Tejaswini Niranjana, Rey Chow, and Homi Bhabha, each in his/her unique way, recuperate the significatory potential of historicity embedded in Benjamin's text. Their further appropriation of the concept of the "untranslatable" depends on a radically political turn that, instead of focusing on the failure of translation, salvages historical as well as cultural potentiality that lies between disparate cultural entities, signifying differences, or disjunctures, that do not easily render themselves to existing systems of representation. It may therefore be concluded that postcolonial discourses on cultural translation of Niranhana, Chow, and Bhabha, inspired by Benjamin, each translate the latter's theory into highly politicized understandings of translation, and this leads to an extensive rethinking of the act of translation itself to include all forms of cultural exchange and communicative activities between cultures. The disjunctures between these discourses and Benjamin's text, in that sense, enable them to form a sort of theoretical constellation, which aspires to an impossible yet necessary utopian ideal of critical thinking.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제20권
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• pp.275-294
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• 2010

This article examines Bong Joon-ho's science fiction/horror film, The Host (2006) and interrogates its depiction of a contemporary South Korean family in crisis. The writer considers the film as a resonant cultural artefact and a manifestation of particularly new-millennial anxieties concerned with the continued involvement of the United States in South Korean affairs, fears of an erosion of traditional family values and mistrust of officious, state endorsed bureaucracy. The Host emerges as a profoundly visceral depiction of an ordinary family set against everyone with no one to turn to except each other.

• 고전문학과교육
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• 제16호
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• pp.207-235
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• 2008

This study investigated the formation of communication education which is based on the contemporary language education. Concretely I watched chronologically the proportion of culture element and behavior element, its change, and the contents of writing education. To achieve this, I took the ancient Greek language education as the main materials. The sophists are right if we think only the empirical world, because of the changeability of external world and the relativity of sense. On the other hand, Platon emphasized the ability of abstract thought which is inherent in the human inside. But today's education only emphasizes the 'expression' which came from the Platonic thought. So students fills their devastated inside with arbitrary idea in this history-forgotten social circumstance. It is very beneficial to make subject have some cultural studies and to enhance the sensation on the world through the writing of representation because these can be good to the growth of subject. It is our-not as educator but as a predecessor of human being-duty to set the catalogue of cultural studies of this age and to make students feel the fundamental harmony and the beauty of the world.

• 영미문화
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.99-125
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• 2010

This paper explores the political significance of a literary work, the hidden side beneath the ideology of founding America in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok which reconstructs the history of the colonial period. The ideological strategy of founding America on racial discrimination is given a repeated representation in 19th-century American novels. Most works shed a negative light on Native Americans, whereas Hobomok stands out by presenting a positive picture of a miscegenation between a Native American man and a white woman, the acculturation of a half Indian into the white society. Furthermore, Child undoes distorted stereotypes about native Americans, exposing the Puritans' intolerant and exclusive attitudes and criticizing men who forced women to be obedient for the cause of nation and religion. However, Child also shows that she could not be free from the ideology of founding America which insisted on the superiority of the white's racial identity and excluded the Native Americans as beings who were destined to vanish gradually but eventually. Although Hobomok revises stereotypical representation of Native Americans as the other, it also serves for a political purpose, showing a politically inseparable relationship between literary works and the ideology of founding America.

• 영미문화
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.269-286
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• 2014

The Pre-Raphaelite oeuvre abounds in the image of women, which indicates the impact of gender question on contemporary visual culture. The representation of women in their art tends to evince the entrenched myth of womanhood, marked by a stereotyped dichotomy in the apprehension of femininity. Yet there are a significant number of pictures which attest to the point that their iconography of womanhood cannot be fully elucidated by exploring the dichotomy alone. They falsify the dyadic model, defying the attempt to accommodate them in a clean-cut category. The curious blend of the mystical, the sensual, and the domestic that characterizes these images suggests that they are open to multiple interpretations. In sum, the Pre-Raphaelite representation of women both endorses and challenges the ideal of femininity, indicating that it was shaped by and shaped contemporary perceptions of women at a time when gender relations were shifting and the traditional institution of patriarchy revealed a sign of strain.