Debating Multicultural Korea: Media Discourse on Migrants and Minorities in South Korea
- Authors
- Yi, Joseph; Jung, Gowoon
- Issue Date
- May-2015
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- Multicultural; Netizens; Migrants; South Korea; Public Sphere; Media
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, v.41, no.6, pp.985 - 1013
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- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
- Volume
- 41
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 985
- End Page
- 1013
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/143524
- DOI
- 10.1080/1369183X.2014.1002202
- ISSN
- 1369-183X
- Abstract
- Since the early 1990s, South Korea has experienced growing public debate about migrants, minorities and related government policies. Much of this 'multicultural' discourse occurs in the internet-based cyber-media, which offer space for various producers, including mainstream media professionals, netizens and resident foreigners. A prevailing discourse of victimhood is associated with small, ideologically homogeneous groups of media producers (mainstream media and nativist websites); in contrast, mixed and nuanced discourses are more common in large and heterogeneous online communities, where users interact with a variety of viewpoints. Moreover, actors who are framed in non-negative terms-as neither xenophobes nor corrupt elites-serve as more effective brokers and bridges across various media. Most foreign-origin netizens are passive consumers of media discourse; but a few, active foreigners communicate effectively with both mainstream media and netizens and help to diversify the prevailing discourse. We find supportive evidence from a content analysis of 15 websites, supplemented with informant interviews and observations.
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