week 6
From E. W. Gordan’s ‘Ch.5 Community’ in Net Locality: Why location matters in a networked world’, the paper explains how the word ‘community’ has been redefined and has lost its original integrity because of how the internet has become such a dependent source for everyday life. Gordon argues that it requires more than a keyboard to develop a friendship, in summary any negative implications between human relationships are caused by any source of technology. “Televisions were blamed for isolating people, as they converted the living room into a private public sphere(Spigel, 1992; Meyrowitz, 1985), and the web was blamed for making it far too easy for people to connect with those outside of their locality (Kapor, 1993).”
In relation to the korean community, I cannot help but agree with his argument as Koreans from what I have personally and objectively experienced have developed relationships with one another based on the social expectations of meeting each other in public spaces, such as cafes, restaurants, and retail stores. Although it is determined on age groups as well, older generations do not require the use of technology as they obviously do not prefer it. More so in order to communicate with one and other, Korean communities have even started magazine businesses that operate as marketing groups, providing advertisements to different businesses like “yellow pages” By initializing these sorts of branches of business it provides and gives Korean families the convenience and communication in order to remain a cultural unit within a foreign land. Such examples are;
1. example of a korean advertising magazine
2.another example of a korean advertising magazine
In hindsight, Gordon makes a valuable insight to the technological obsession that many communities are enchanted with every day. It has become such a dependent source of entertainment and need that it has come to the point where manual forces of labour is no longer required, nowadays mobile phones are just miniature computers and computers have become smarter than human and so on and so forth. Conclusively, in relation to the korean community, this dependency to technology has become a blanketed issue, one that affects many but in a cultural sense, it hasn’t become such a reliable and dependent source of everyday living rather a tool that only helps.
1. own photo
2.own photo
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