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Strategic use of social media IDs: critical perspectives on identity and interaction

  • Rizwan, Snobra
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.36
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    • pp.5-35
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    • 2014
  • This study attempts to give a review of social media users' choice of a particular name for the sake of signaling identity cues and interaction with the others. The social media names could be classified into different categories such as traditional/cultural anthroponyms, nicknames and fictitious IDs etc. Out of these categories, it is the phenomenon of choice and construction of fictitious social media IDs by Pakistani social media users which has been reviewed and scrutinized in this particular article. This study examined fictitious IDs of Pakistani social media users from Critical Discourse Analysis and System Functional Linguistics perspectives and demonstrates how nationalistic, ethnic and religious identities are negotiated, constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed by the social media users through a particular ID choice.

A Study on the Fashion Innovative Image in Contemporary Hair Design Trend (현대(現代) 헤어 디자인 트렌드에 나타난 유행(流行) 혁신(革新) 이미지 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Kyoung-In
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.18-28
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    • 2007
  • Resent Fashion trends are changing very rapidly. To understand and predict these trends, Fashion should be regarded not as object but as a social phenomenon. In this Study, the concepts of contemporary hair design trend and fashion innovative Image were defined, and the literatures regarding the relation of these two attributes were studied. To study allegory images in the hair design trend, we would like to analyse the relevance between the fashion innovativeness and cultural trend. The method used here are mostly visual data and interpretation. This study could be helpful for creative development of hair design and rediscovery of fashion meaning.

A Thought on the Dynamic Mechanism of Coevolution between IT and Society and Its Policy Implications (정보기술과 사회 공진화의 동태적 메커니즘과 정책적 함의)

  • Kim, Sang-Wook;KIm, Sook-Hee
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.5-20
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    • 2006
  • In the advent of ubiquitous information technology (u-IT) as a new emerging horizon of information society, inflated expectations regarding u-IT are growing very fast and higher than those made in the past, which would perhaps result in serious bust after boom and incur tremendous amount of social costs. This paper thus investigates a dynamic mechanism underlying the coevolution between information technology and society by applying systems thinking, particularly, with a focus on the typical phenomenon, 'hype curve' which shows how new technologies initially grow too fast for their own good, crashing from a peak of inflated expectations into a trough of disillusionment before stabilizing on a plateau of productivity. Three basic questions are explored to answer by investigating the mechanisms underlying the 'boom-bust' phenomenon: First, why hype curve appears in the process of technology and society coevolution. Second, how to enhance the stabilization level. Third, when is the right time for the policy intervention.

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Scaling Reuse Detection in the Web through Two-way Boosting with Signatures and LSH

  • Kim, Jong Wook
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.735-745
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    • 2013
  • The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs and wiki, enable even naive users to easily create and share content on the Web using freely available content sharing tools. Wide availability of almost free data and promiscuous sharing of content through social networking platforms created a content borrowing phenomenon, where the same content appears (in many cases in the form of extensive quotations) in different outlets. An immediate side effect of this phenomenon is that identifying which content is re-used by whom is becoming a critical tool in social network analysis, including expert identification and analysis of information flow. Internet-scale reuse detection, however, poses extremely challenging scalability issues: considering the large size of user created data on the web, it is essential that the techniques developed for content-reuse detection should be fast and scalable. Thus, in this paper, we propose a $qSign_{lsh}$ algorithm, a mechanism for identifying multi-sentence content reuse among documents by efficiently combining sentence-level evidences. The experiment results show that $qSign_{lsh}$ significantly improves the reuse detection speed and provides high recall.

A Study on Internet Addiction (인터넷 중독에 관한 연구)

  • 조찬식
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.189-210
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    • 2002
  • As the access and the use of internet have been diffused in our daily life. internet addiction has been issued as a social pathological phenomenon. In this context, this study constructs a theoretical foundation on internet addiction based upon the understanding on internet and on addiction as a social phenomenon: examines the background of internet addiction in Korea: analyzes the cases of internet addiction as reported on newspapers; and explores the characteristics and the directions to cope with internet addiction. By so doing. this study aims at enhancing our understanding on internet addiction.

Socialization and Health Experiences of Physical disabled Adults in Public Welfare Program (사회복지교육프로그램 참여 지체장애인의 건강과 사회화 경험)

  • KIM, Jeong-Soo
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.258-265
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    • 2016
  • This study was to describe and understand the experiences of the physical disabled adult attending in public welfare program. The interview data were collected from seven persons and analyzed by using descriptive phenomenology of Colazzi. The procedural steps were that described the phenomenon of interest, collected participants' descriptions of the phenomenon, extracted the meaning of significant statements, organized the meanings into them clusters, wrote exhaustive descriptions and then incorporated data into an exhaustive description. The finding in 129 re-statements, 63 constructed meanings, 35 themes, 13 theme clusters, and six categories were deduced. The six categories were 'Life patterns exclusive health', 'Powerlessness by physical disabilities', 'Social supports', 'Positive motivation', 'Seeking to be holistic health', and 'Sense of accomplishment'. The study identified that social welfare program for the disabled necessities for health, learning, economy and their future in success. Therefore, we suggest there may be a need for supplying professional program for their health and welfare.

The Socio-cultural Meanings on Kitsch in Consumption of Fashion Products (패션상품 소비에 나타난 키치의 사회문화적 의미)

  • 김순자
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.145-162
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    • 2001
  • This study focuses on how fashion products of our contemporary society of consumption are taking on a kitsch look, and on what kind of social and cultural meanings this phenomenon connotate. In general, kitsch is understood as an expression with a negative meanings such as aesthetic inadequacy or bad tastes. In our dairy life however kitsch has been highlighted as an another expressions of subjective beauty and gains positive meaning as almost all the people satisfy their desires through consumption of kitsch products. In order to prove the kitsch phenomenon in fashion products and social and cultural meanings, the researcher has Performed a case study on actual consumption of fashion products and the internal psychological meanings in fashion consumption. The internal psychological meanings of kitsch on consumption of fashion products are emotions and needs such as escape from reality. substitutional satisfaction, belonging confirmation, expression of individual taste, and fun, sexual amusements.

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Exploring the problem of Internet Addiction: A Review and Analysis of Existing Literature

  • SINGH, Sumanjeet;PALIWAL, Minakshi
    • Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2020
  • Anecdotal reports indicate that maladaptive patterns of Internet use constitute behavioral addiction. Internet addiction is characterized by unrestrained and awfully controlled engrossment or behaviors regarding internet access that lead to impairment, stress, dimensionally measured depression, indicators of social separation and anguish. By reviewing and analyzing approximately 100 articles we present evidence that are able to provide an overview of the main themes and proclivity covered by existing and relevant studies. The vital detection of this research unveils that many factors related to social, demographic, lifestyle changes related constructs have a bearing on the phenomenon of internet addiction strongly. This study not only reached certain conclusions for both theory and practice, but also defined future lines of research according to the gaps detected by the study's results. The main findings from this literature, though not conclusive, but will help the researcher and policymakers to obtain a better understanding and description of the problem faced by the youth and necessary to develop some remedies to lessen the addiction phenomenon.

A Study of Postrnodern Phenomenon in Clothings for German youth (청소년 의상에 나타난 포스트모더니즘 현상)

  • 홍기현
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.581-588
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    • 1997
  • Since 1950 postmodernism shows strong influences in literature, architektuTe, art, clothing and other social and cultural fields. It's main conceptswere individual, pluralistic, unconven- tional and deconstruction of social values. The purpose of thisstudy was to review the influence of postmodernism to German clothing for youth. To achieve this purpose, raga- zinesfor youth ("BKAVO") from 1959 to 1994 surveyed including a number of interviews. The characterizations of postmodernism in fashion are as follows: Sport Clothing has an effect on Oaily Clothing. Exotic phenomenon from south america, africa, asia shows strong in fashion. Subculture(Rocker, Hippie, Punker) is as anti-culture sylnbolically expressed in young fashion which is diffrent from mother-fashion. This appeard in Germany in the 50s, 60san6 70s. However, sub-culture-look in the 80s and 90s is presented only in outer style. It does'nt show any symbolic meanings. "Bricolage" ("mix and match") -concept was appeard in 60s and 70s only in fashion of subculture group. This concept generalized in standard fashion in 80s and 90s.andard fashion in 80s and 90s.

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The Shifts of Masculine Domination in Vietnam: Examining Mixed and Hybrid Characteristics in Feminist Texts on Vietnamese Newspapers in the Early Twentieth Century

  • CAO Kim-Lan
    • SUVANNABHUMI
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.155-185
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    • 2023
  • This paper aims to identify the shifts of masculine domination, illuminating Vietnamese men and women's actual position in society through surveying the mixed and hybrid characteristics described in the feminist texts in the early twentieth century. This paper concentrates on the feminist writings of the two exceptionally male intellectuals Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh (1882-1936) and Phan Khôi (1887-1959). in order to implement these goals, the paper first examines the popular phenomenon of ventriloquism among Vietnamese male intellectuals, whose dominant attitudes may still be unveiled in feminist texts. Secondly, the paper focuses on surveys of men's direct discourse in constructing the model of women's liberation. From these two contents, this paper answers the following questions: Why have Vietnamese men become feminists? What were the causes, purposes, and effects of this phenomenon? To look at the nature of Vietnamese feminism, this paper will show the shifts of masculine domination in Vietnam as another form of protecting men's privileges. All analyses in this study will ground discussion on the economic, political, and social contexts and conditions of Vietnam in the early twentieth century.