Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age : The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital.

Cover -- Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age -- Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SCHOLARSHIP ON TRANSNATIONALISM -- DEBATES ON TRANSNATIONALISM -- Operationalizing Transnationalism -- EMPIRICAL FINDINGS ON MIGRANT TRANSNATIONALISM -- FROM SOJOURNERS TO PERMANENT SETTLERS TO TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIONS -- THE KOREAN COMMUNITY IN THE WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE REGION -- Settlement Patterns -- DATA SOURCES -- ORGANIZATION OF BOOK -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Korean Immigrants in the Washington-Baltimore Area -- PLACE OF BIRTH AND GENERATION -- SEX -- MARITAL STATUS -- EDUCATION -- LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION -- SELF-EMPLOYMENT -- Number and Types of Korean-Owned Businesses -- Koreatowns in Annandale, Virginia, and Centreville, Virginia -- OCCUPATION -- INCOME -- HEALTH COVERAGE -- ENGLISH PROFICIENCY -- CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION -- RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION AND PARTICIPATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 -- Connecting with the Home Country -- ICT AND CONNECTED MIGRANTS -- SCOPE AND FORMS OF ICT USED -- LIMITATIONS OF ICT -- EVOLUTION OF ICT: FROM LETTERS TO TELEPHONES TO MOBILE/SMART PHONES -- MOBILE PHONES -- Limitations of Mobile Phones -- SMARTPHONES -- Forms and Use of Smartphones -- MOBILE INSTANT MESSAGING APPS VERSUS SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE TEXT MESSAGING -- FROM PC-BASED CYWORLD TO SMARTPHONE-BASED KAKAO TALK -- TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA/TELEVISION -- Forms and Use of Transnational Media/Television -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 -- Transnational Activities of Korean Immigrants -- EVOLUTION OF ICT USE AMONG KOREAN MIGRANTS -- INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE CALLS AND TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNICATION -- KOREAN MIGRANTS AND KAKAO TALK -- REMITTANCES -- ASSETS AND INVESTMENTS -- VISITING THE HOMELAND -- SUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN KOREA.

THE KOREAN STATE AND POLITICAL TRANSNATIONALISM -- VIEWS ON GRANTING THE FRANCHISE TO OVERSEAS KOREANS -- VIEWS ON DUAL CITIZENSHIP -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 -- Cultural Transnational Activities -- KOREAN TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA BEFORE 1990S -- THE KOREAN WAVE, THE -- Korean Feature Films -- Korean Dramas -- K-Pop -- CONSUMPTION OF TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA/TELEVISION -- Reasons for Consuming Transnational Media/Television -- Korean Washingtonians' Consumption of Transnational Media/ Television -- THE -- AND ITS IMPACT ON FIRSTAND SECOND-GENERATION KOREAN AMERICANS -- KOREANIZED VERSUS AMERICANIZED WAYS OF LIFE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 -- Where Is Home? -- TRANSNATIONALISM AND SENSE OF HOME AND BELONGING -- WHERE IS HOME? KOREA, THE UNITED STATES, OR BOTH? -- United States as Real Home -- Homeland as Real Home -- SENSE OF HOME AND PERCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY AND POLITICAL FREEDOMS -- PLANS TO RETURN TO THE HOME COUNTRY -- No Desire and Plans to Return to the Homeland -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 6 -- Compatibility of Assimilation with Ethnic Preservation and Transnationalism -- SELF-SEGREGATION OR RACIALIZATION? -- SELECTIVE ASSIMILATION: BILINGUALISM AND BICULTURALISM -- COHORT AND GENERATIONAL CHANGES ON ASSIMILATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM -- Cohort Changes and Transnationalism -- Generational Changes on Assimilation and Transnationalism -- SYNCHRONIZATION: PERSONAL BLOGS AND DISCUSSION THREADS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Conclusion -- TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE FUTURE -- NOTE -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

This book examines Korean immigrants' transnational activities, in particular their consumption of transnational media, and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet and smartphones, on cross-border engagement and its impact on their sense of home, identity, and belonging.

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