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The Dialectical Inquiry Media and Inequality (미디어와 불평등의 변증법)

  • Kim, Seung Soo
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.80
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    • pp.7-39
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    • 2016
  • This essay deals with the bulk of problems of media raised by social inequality. I attempted to examine the relationship between inequality and media/information. In adopting the method of political economy based on dialectical viewpoint, I argue that collaboration among Chaebol, media, power result in the media capitalism. This mode of production has brought about the decline of public service and democracy. It led the Korean industrial capitalism to media capitalism. This mechanism is a dominant but unfair system with grasping of wealth, power, information. The media capitalism, based on profit, privatizations, power monopoly, remains democracy and public service in retreat. Chaebol-media-power complex plays an important role in cementing the establishment. We are reminded how much the dominant system has deteriorated the public interests of the media market and information.

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The State, Market, Media: Cable Television Industry Organization during the Early Stage of Kim Dae-Jung Administration (국가 정책의 성격 변화와 뉴미디어 산업의 조직: 김대중정부 초기의 케이블TV 산업을 중심으로)

  • Woo, Ji-Woon
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.57
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    • pp.137-159
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    • 2012
  • This is a dissertation about the state and cable television industry relationship during the early days of Kim Dae-Jung administration(1998.2-2000.1) in Korea. This study adopted historical approach and methodology of archival research. Offe's state theories of reproduction of late capitalism and the concept of Korean patriarchal state-led capitalism were suggested in this paper. Offe argued that the goal of the late capitalist state is successful capital accumulation and democratic legitimation with bureaucratic rationalization. For this purpose, the state intervenes market structuring by various plans and national policies. The Kim Dae-Jung administration reorganized cable television market with neo-liberalistic strategies and corporatist forms of policy-making. The government negotiated capitalists and civil society for managing capitalistic economy and cable television market in a horizontal relationship. Successful consequences of the market growth resulted in generating mass loyalty. The former administrations to the contrary, invisibly arranged state-led capitalism was an only alternative to the Kim Dae-Jung administration. The Korean state-led capitalism evolved gradually into different forms.

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A Divice of Development and A Social Dominant Factor of the Private Security (민간경비의 사회적 성장요인과 발전방안)

  • Gong, Bae-Wan
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.27-42
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    • 2005
  • Recently the demand for civil security and security guards shows rapid growth. However the supply and training system have some limitations. Educational and training systems for civil body and security guards are in the basic level and private organizations trained the professional work force. So this paper is showing what a social dominant factor and a divice of development of the private security. Capitalism is based on a material desire of the human being. the social control of capital value and the management of capital ability reflects the actual condition of the capitalism well. The unconstrained growing and the expansion of capitalism, it finally lost social meaning and an importance of human being element and the safety of the civilian life, began to threat the security of citizen by forming over the material center structure of society. Improving human life quality and material richness on their life leads positive factor of capitalism whereas is causing several crimes through the society which is being threatened around a human being life for a negative factor of the capitalism. Therefore capitalistic social system has offered both a positive factor 'growing' and 'richness' and that of a negative 'structural poverty' and 'lack of security' and they have been remaining the assignment of capitalism 'poverty' and 'security' by settlement in the society for a extremely phenomenon of both sides. In Korea because their recognition of the study approach and the social safety for social security control function is still staying first step and our daily life is annoying from various threat of the society. many studies and the realistic necessity of experience related with social security is being studied. In addition. The development possibility of the civil guard and defense at the civil field which will be keep the social security has a wide position but its study approach and realistic comprehension is still in insufficient condition.

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E-government, Big Brother, Information Capitalism - Focusing on the NEIS Problem (전자정부, 빅 브라더, 정보자본주의 - 네이스 문제를 중심으로 -)

  • Hong Seong-Tae
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.4 no.1 s.7
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    • pp.31-57
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    • 2004
  • Controversies over NEIS(Network of Education Information System) began with very deep concern about infringement of human rights stemming from NEIS. A large information system which accumulates and uses huge size of individual information is always able to deeply infringe on human rights. But the ministry of education would not do the best not to be 'Big Brother' being dazzled by instrumental efficiency of information technology. NEIS has demonstrated problems of the information policy of Korea strongly driven in the name of 'E-goverment'. It has very strong characteristic of the statist economic growth policy focusing on more economic possibility than other. In this situation, making money is easily considered more important than protecting human rights. Information capitalism is nurtured at the sacrifice of human rights. So, we have to face problems of 'E-goverment' in order to correct the NEIS problem, The most important task to correct the NEIS problem is to make an element law protecting privacy and to establish an independent national institute protecting privacy

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A Modern Meaning of Worker's Equal Rights to Share Profits of Private Companies in the first Korean Constitution of 1948 (제헌헌법상(制憲憲法上) 이익균점권(利益均霑權)의 현대적(現代的) 의미(意味))

  • Shin, Jae-Myung
    • Journal of the Korea society of information convergence
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2014
  • Capitalism of altitude in modern society has brought a brilliant development of human civilization. But there is a side effect of capitalism. It is just such as alienation of labor, polarization. The need to consider the worker's equal rights to share profits of private companies in the first Korean Constitution of 1948 is to mitigate the adverse effects of this capitalism. It is considered that the present government aims at "economic democracy" slogan and also be matched. The worker's equal rights to share profits of private companies means the distribution rights of workers to receive excess profits of the company. The review of these worker's equal rights to share profits of private companies is thought very meaningful.

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The Politics of Hollywood Conspiracy Films in the Era of Late Capitalism (후기 자본주의 시대 헐리우드 음모론 영화의 정치성)

  • Lee, Jeeheng
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.140-150
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    • 2014
  • Conspiracy theory is often considered as a kind of paranoid and an act of throwing all the blame solely on the Big Other who is presumed to control all the incidents behind the curtain. While, it is also assessed as a socio-political sub-culture and a way of interpreting the world full of closure and insufficient information, keeping us from grasping 'the totality'. Meanwhile recent conspiracy films reflect the ever dense and concealed anatomy of the world now. And it reveals some kind of ideological tendency which is, 'sense of catastrophe' and 'non-ideology' reflecting the world of late capitalism society. This article intends to examine the altered representational appearance and ideology in recent conspiracy films so as to understand how the conspiracy theory, the social-political interpretational mechanism, is converged into the film narrative against the backdrop of late capitalism, a socio-political condition we live in.

Pensar la Fraternidad en la Diferencia

  • Jurado, Jenniffer Londono
    • Iberoamérica
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.107-125
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    • 2019
  • How to conceive fraternity in difference? I will hold two premises to answer this question. First: fraternity is an ineradicable element of the Political. Second: the recognition of fraternity in difference is a precondition for the consolidation of fraternal relations in Latin America in the context of coloniality. On the same path, I will show that fraternity must be thought of as difference in order to face the logic of neoliberal life imposed by capitalism in globalization. The articulation of both premises in the political praxis would contribute to the preservation of our life in common; in conditions of dignified existence. The fraters of precariousness and vulnerability are the ones who can re-establish being-with- and being-together.

Research on the Information Architecture and its Structure of Cyber Museums (사이버 전시관의 INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE와 그 구성에 관한 기초적 연구)

  • 송정화;임채진
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.112-116
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    • 2001
  • We are facing the new revolutionary age which industrialism and capitalism have been disappearing at tile transition period of civilization. This revolution means the internet, a communication system that is free from the limits of time and space through the establishment of global network. This research aims at finding how the structure of museums and galleries are designed and expressed in the cyber world. It is also intended to analyse factors of their composition.

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Precarity and Hope in Digital Labor: In-depth Interviews on the Off-campus Internship Experiences of College Students (디지털 노동의 불안과 희망: 대학생의 '대외활동'에 대한 심층 인터뷰)

  • Lee, Hee-Eun
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.66
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    • pp.211-241
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    • 2014
  • In the era of neoliberalism with high rate of youth unemployment, young college students are forced to believe that the only way to enter the job market is by accepting and participating temporary off-campus apprenticeship, which often disguised as an internship for the creative culture and knowledge. This article discusses that the mode of off-campus apprenticeship, which is supposed to voluntary and participatory, bears in fact a strong resemblance with digital labor. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with college students, this study argues that the apprentice-typed labor denotes a process by which immaterial labor or free labor coincides with self-directed job training. Throughout the digital labor processes young college students are in a constant oscillation between precarity and hope, negotiating their autonomy and social conditions in the neoliberal work environment. The digital labor accumulates students' knowledge and information as a form of commodity, which in turn supports communicative capitalism.

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A Study on the ‘Profit Mechanisms’ in Blog Production (블로그 생산의 이윤화 기제에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Seon
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.37
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    • pp.307-341
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    • 2007
  • The Blog enables individuals to become communication producers, not merely consumers. This study aims to analyse the practice of the Blog communication and the surrounding social dynamics. Employing ethnographic content analysis, in-depth interview, and participatory observation, this study tried to explore following research questions: 1) What are the value-added process and social dynamics surrounding the production and practice of the Blog communication? From the perspective of political economy, the mechanisms of market economy of capitalism directly and indirectly worked in Blog production, making it as a medium for profit. The power of capital overwhelmed the blog. These results enable us to predict that Blog can be a new tool for capitalism to create profit.

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