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The making of a social movement: citizen journalism in South Korea
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Abstract This article investigates the emergence of innovations in the social movement sector by exploring citizen journalism in South Korea. The findings show that the innovation resulted from brokerage activities among journalists, labour and unification activists, and progressive intellectuals. Despite di... view more
This article investigates the emergence of innovations in the social movement sector by exploring citizen journalism in South Korea. The findings show that the innovation resulted from brokerage activities among journalists, labour and unification activists, and progressive intellectuals. Despite different cultural visions and interests, these groups succeeded in building coalitions and constituted a sociocultural milieu that promoted reciprocal learning by allowing actors to realize new ideas and to exchange experiences. The empirical part of the study is based on a social network analysis of social movement groups and alternative media organizations active in South Korea between 1995 and 2002.... view less
Keywords
innovation research; Internet; intellectual; citizens' movement; sociocultural development; journalist; formulation of political objectives; social movement; democratization; innovation; networking; journalism; South Korea; online media; participation; media
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Communicator Research, Journalism
Method
qualitative empirical; empirical
Free Keywords
citizen journalism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 637-660
Journal
Current Sociology, 57 (2009) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392109337649
ISSN
1461-7064
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
With the permission of the rights owner, this publication is under open access due to a (DFG-/German Research Foundation-funded) national or Alliance license.