Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture analyzes webtoons through the lens of emerging digital cultures and discusses relevant cultural perspectives by combining two different, yet connected approaches, political economy and cultural studies. The book demonstrates the dynamics between structural forces and textual engagement in global media flows, and it illuminates snack-culture and binge-reading as two new forms of digital culture that webtoon platforms capitalize on to capture people’s shifting media consumption.

발표자
Dal Yong Jin / Professor / Simon Fraser University

발표자 약력: 2004 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Ph. D., Program at the Institute of Communications Research
Dissertation Title: “Political Economy of Communication Industry Reorganization: Republic of Korea, 1987-2002” (Advisor: Dan Schiller)
2000 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
M.P.A. (Master of Public Affairs) at the Lyndon B. Johnson School (LBJ)
1988 Yonsei University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea. M.A. in Public Policy
1986 Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. B. A. in Public Administration

토론자
Hyesu Park / Associate Professor / Bellevue College
Jaehyun Jeong / Lecturer / San Jose State University