In search of the Korean digital wave

Ben Goldsmith; K S Lee; B Yecies

doi:10.1177/1329878X1114100109

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In search of the Korean digital wave

Ben Goldsmith, K S Lee and B Yecies

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.141(1), pp.70-77

2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X1114100109

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This article sets the context for this special themed issue on the 'Korean digital wave' by considering the symbiotic relationship between digital technologies, their techniques and practices, their uses and the affordances they provide, and Korea's 'compressed modernity' and swift industrialisation. It underscores the importance of interrogating a range of groundbreaking developments and innovations within Korea's digital mediascapes, and its creative and cultural industries, in order to gain a complex understanding of one of Australia's most significant export markets and trading partners. Given the financial and political commitment in Australia to a high-speed broadband network that aims to stimulate economic and cultural activity, recent technological developments in Korea, and the double-edged role played by government policy in shaping the 'Korean digital wave', merit close attention from media and communications scholars.

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Title: In search of the Korean digital wave
Authors: Ben Goldsmith (Author) - Swinburne University
K S Lee (Author) - University of Wollongong
B Yecies (Author) - University of Wollongong
Publication details: Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.141(1), pp.70-77
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
Date published: 2011
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1114100109
ISSN: 1329-878X
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449184002621
Output Type: Journal article

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