TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kim,Dae Young
AU  - Jung,Young A.
AU  - Lee,Gyu Tag
TI  - Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation's Capital
T2  - Korean Communities Across the World Series
SN  - 9781498541763
AV  - P94.6 .K56 2018 
U1  - 305.8957 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Mass media-Political aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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