DOCSLIB.ORG

Samena Trends

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Samena Trends SAMENA TRENDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR SAMENA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL'S MEMBERS Volume 04 Issue 06 BUILDING DIGITAL ECONOMIES June 2013 A SAMENA Telecommunications Council Newsletter Domain Name Industry Trends in Evolving Digital Economies Fadi Chehadé President & CEO ICANN EDITORIAL Domain Name Industry Trends in Evolving Digital Economies The Internet’s continued existence depends on its emergence of new generic TLDs (or gTLDs), of which ability and need to expand. Developments witnessed .com and .biz are examples, and as seen from the eyes in the digital realm over the past two decades fairly of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and demonstrate the pace at which the Internet has Numbers (ICANN), telecoms operators could better expanded, causing seismic shifts in socio-economic connect with their end-users, better manage their behaviors and business strategies. brands and customer trust, create better marketing opportunities, facilitate entrepreneurship, and, The future expansion of the Internet now has become resultantly, create new revenue opportunities for a function of top-level domain names. That is, the themselves. gTLDS may also serve as a means to Internet of tomorrow will witness the addition of new better manage users’ access to content and other domain names in its addressing space. Such top- data, which currently is being provided and leveraged level domains (TLDs) will have a major impact on the by alternative players such as OTTs. end-users’ ability and speed in being able to browse through the vastness of the Internet. As an example of The domain name industry is among the newest the growth trend, in 3Q-2012, more than 246 million ones to emerge with a strong business case. TLD registrations took place, reflecting a significant However, there currently exist knowledge gaps and year-on-year growth rate of 12 percent. Country Cod lack of understanding on this new business area, its Top-level Domains (ccTLDs) have also been on the rise, operational and dispute-resolution aspects, and its as have been the .com and .net TLDs. Notably, .com domain assigning roles and management issues. remains at the top while .info is the least adopted of all the major, currently-known TLDs. All stakeholders of the digital world have a better chance of successfully benefitting from this new The domain registration trend shows that countries in industry if collaboration and better understanding Western Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, and the could be aided. Regulatory authorities that have Middle East regions are the most active in terms of already initiated the understanding and collaboration adopting ccTLDs. In this trend, there lies a message for process on the domain names industry are better the countries of the SAMENA region to immediately equipped to enable growth of this industry within their starting opting for ccTLDs and premium domains, such respective markets. The SAMENA Council is pleased as energy.com, to better project their local industries. to be of support to this cause, and considers the domain names area, which will have implications on Similarly, for telecommunications operators, TLDs the understanding and implementation of concepts represent a potentially strong business area, whereby such as Internet governance. new business models could be supported. With the Yours truly, Bocar A. BA Chief Executive Officer SAMENA Telecommunications Council SAMENA TRENDS Volume 04 Issue 06 June 2013 www.samenacouncil.org 1 CONTENTS The SAMENA TRENDS newsletter is wholly owned and EDITORIAL operated by The SAMENA Telecommunications Council 01 EDITORIAL FZ, LLC (SAMENA). Information in the newsletter is not intended as professional services advice, and SAMENA Council disclaims any liability for use of specific 03 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW information or results thereof. Articles and information contained in this publication are the copyright of Fadi Chehadédé SAMENA Telecommunications Council, (unless otherwise President & CEO noted, described or stated) and cannot be reproduced, ICANN copied or printed in any form without the express written permission of the publisher. 07 REGIONAL PERFORMANCE The SAMENA Council does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the Number of cTLD in the SAMENA Region content, comments, opinions or statements made in The Regional & Global Ranking SAMENA TRENDS by any entity or entities. Information, Percentage of the total number of cTLD within the products and services offered, sold or placed in the SAMENA Region newsletter by other than The SAMENA Council belong to the respective entity or entities and are not representative REGIONAL UPDATES of The SAMENA Council. The SAMENA Council hereby 09 expressly disclaims any and all warranties, expressed and implied, including but not limited to any warranties Regional News of accuracy, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose by any entity or entities offering 12 REGULATORY & POLICY UPDATES information, products and services in this newsletter. The user agrees that The SAMENA Council is not responsible, Regulatory News and shall have no liability to such user, with respect to Active Consultations & Invitations for Feedback any information, product or service offered by any entity Country-wise Policy & Regulatory Developments or entities in this newsletter. The SAMENA Council’s only liability in the event of errors shall be the correction or Regulatory Activities Beyond the SAMENA Region removal of the erroneous information after verification. 33 SATELLITE UPDATES Editor-in-Chief Satellite News Bocar A. BA 35 ROAMING UPDATES Contributing Editors Izhar Ahmad Roaming News Zakir Syed Javaid Akhtar Malik George Salama 37 TECHNOLOGY UPDATES Erik Almqvist Technology News Contributing Member The Internet Facelift New generic Analysys Mason Top-Level Domain SAMENA Telecommunications Council Get in Shape in 2013: key operative priorities for your organisation Publisher SAMENA Telecommunications Council Subscriptions 43 SAMENA ACTIVITIES [email protected] SAMENA Council releases white paper on the potential of SDL Technology to enhance mobile Advertising broadband access [email protected] Samena Council Participated in Arab Multi- Legal Issues or Concerns Stakeholders Advisory Group’s (Amag) 4th [email protected] Meeting for the first round of Arab Internet Governance Forum(AIGF) SAMENA TRENDS Samena Council to issue paper on the importance #304, Alfa Building, Knowledge Village of Domain Names Industry for the Telecos in PO Box: 502544, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Collaboration with Icann and Ictqatar Tel: +971.4.364.2700 2nd Arab IGF, Algeria 1st-3rd October 2013 “Partners for Development” © 2013 - All rights reserved. SAMENA TRENDS is a trademark of SAMENA Telecommunications Council. SAMENA TRENDS Volume 04 Issue 06 June 2013 2 www.samenacouncil.org Exclusive Interview Operator Leader’S VISION Mr. Chehade is President and CEO of ICANN. Fadi Chehadé’s Prior to Vocado, Chehadé was CEO of CoreObjects Software, career has been defined by building consensus and Inc., a leader in new product software development services promoting collaborative technologies and practices. He has for both large and growing companies. He oversaw the more than 25 years of experience in building and leading expansion of the company to include more than 400 progressive Internet enterprises, leveraging relationships engineers and its successful acquisition by Symphony with senior executives and government officials across Asia, Services. Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Chehadé, age 50, is a citizen of Egypt, Lebanon, and the United States. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to Egyptian parents and left the then war-torn country in 1980 at the age of 18. He speaks fluent Arabic, English, French, and Italian. Most recently he served as Chief Executive Officer of Vocado LLC, a U.S. firm that is a provider of cloud-based software for the administration of educational institutions. Fadi Chehadé President & CEO ICANN SAMENA TRENDS Volume 04 Issue 06 June 2013 www.samenacouncil.org 3 Exclusive Interview Q. During the last few months, Q. Can you brief us on the ICANN has had several meetings with new gTLD program? What is the Middle East stakeholders regarding current status? What are the main participation in ICANN as well as challenges? When should we expect ICANN engagement in the region. to see the first new gTLD delegated What are the expected outcomes of into the root? those interactions? A. The New gTLD Program is about adding additional choice within the Top-Level Domain space in hopes of ICANN has been working with the Middle East A. fostering competition and innovation. Applications for new community for several years, but we realized we had to do gTLDs started to be submitted nearly a year ago, with the more. When I joined ICANN last year, I got a clear mandate first application window closing on 30 May 2012, and over from the Board of Directors to strengthen our globalization 1,900 applications were received from around the world and outreach efforts all over the world. Therefore, to boost (such as .doha and .arab). Not only will these new gTLDs our global engagement at all levels we began working with expand upon the innovative power of the Internet, but the community on strategies for their regions. In the Middle they will also be available in various non-Latin alphabets, East, for instance, a working group of community members including Arabic and Chinese. As of right now, applications
Load more

Recommended publications
  • How Law Made Silicon Valley
    Emory Law Journal Volume 63 Issue 3 2014 How Law Made Silicon Valley Anupam Chander Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/elj Recommended Citation Anupam Chander, How Law Made Silicon Valley, 63 Emory L. J. 639 (2014). Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/elj/vol63/iss3/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Emory Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Emory Law Journal by an authorized editor of Emory Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHANDER GALLEYSPROOFS2 2/17/2014 9:02 AM HOW LAW MADE SILICON VALLEY Anupam Chander* ABSTRACT Explanations for the success of Silicon Valley focus on the confluence of capital and education. In this Article, I put forward a new explanation, one that better elucidates the rise of Silicon Valley as a global trader. Just as nineteenth-century American judges altered the common law in order to subsidize industrial development, American judges and legislators altered the law at the turn of the Millennium to promote the development of Internet enterprise. Europe and Asia, by contrast, imposed strict intermediary liability regimes, inflexible intellectual property rules, and strong privacy constraints, impeding local Internet entrepreneurs. This study challenges the conventional wisdom that holds that strong intellectual property rights undergird innovation. While American law favored both commerce and speech enabled by this new medium, European and Asian jurisdictions attended more to the risks to intellectual property rights holders and, to a lesser extent, ordinary individuals.
    [Show full text]
  • 00-1Kor Low 9-1ºÔ¼ãfi ȍ
    ೐ܽ౴&TLP(SBQIJDT'MPX%SJWFפগ ઱ PIO-FJUOFS@ࢎ1.ಕ੉૑+ Journal of Korean Law | Vol. 9, 83-108, December 2009 Identifying the Problem: Korea’s Initial Experience with Mandatory Real Name Verification on Internet Portals John Leitner* Abstract In 2007, Korea implemented the world’s only mandatory real name verification system for individuals wishing to post content on popular Korean internet portals. This system, which expanded in 2009 to include additional portals, has so far been relatively ineffective at its stated purpose of reducing instances of online libel. Together with Korea’s censorship of certain internet sites, the real name verification system distinguishes Korea as regulating internet use more heavily than other democratic societies. I argue that the real name verification system is unlikely to successfully deter future acts of cyber libel, but will rather hinder socially useful online activities, such as free expression on matters of social and political significance. Possible means for strengthening enforcement of the real name verification system would provide little promise of preventing defamation while further interfering with freedom of expression and personal privacy. I propose that Korean law can more effectively balance protection of private reputations with individual liberty interests by changing the real name verification system from a mandatory requirement to an internet portal opt-in system. Korea might also consider an emphasis on civil remedies as a means for minimizing the occurrence and consequences of cyber libel while simultaneously preserving a free and collaborative internet. I. Introduction The widespread proliferation of internet access throughout many societies worldwide has facilitated not only socially positive practices, but also detrimental ones.
    [Show full text]
  • Internet Diffusion and Adoption Within Arab-Palestinian Society in Israel
    RESEARCH PAPERS INTERNET DIFFUSION AND ADOPTION WITHIN ARAB-PALESTINIAN SOCIETY IN ISRAEL By ASMAA N.GANAYEM Al-Qasemi College of Education (ISRAEL) ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the nature of Internet access and use within Arab-Palestinian society in Israel. The research focuses on two points: (i) examining the pace of Internet growth during the last decade and studying the nature of the digital gaps within the studied society in a specific time, (ii) studying the extend of the effect of cultural factors in comparison to demographic factors on Internet diffusion and adoption. Measuring the digital gaps uses a new tool to measure different facets of Internet diffusion and adoption: nature of Internet access (duration of access, use locations) and nature of use (frequency, variety of use, type of use and language/s used when surfing). Arab-Palestinian society in Israel is a minority that has been distanced from the Israeli mainstream because of ongoing Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Wide gaps exist between Arabs and Jews in Israel in different socio-economic aspects. These gaps exist also in the diffusion of the Internet. This study examines the effect of various demographic (such as age and gender) and cultural (such as residency and religion) factors on Internet use and the position of cultural factors among all these factors. This study used data from the CBS (the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics) to track the development of Internet diffusion in the Israeli society, while for studying the digital gaps within the Arab society the study used data provided to the researcher by the Rikaz Center, which carried out the most exhaustive and representative interview survey of Arab- Palestinians in Israel in 2007 (Rikaz data, 2008).
    [Show full text]
  • North Korea Security Briefing
    Companion report HP Security Briefing Episode 16, August 2014 Profiling an enigma: The mystery of North Korea’s cyber threat landscape HP Security Research Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Research roadblocks ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Ideological and political context .................................................................................................................... 5 Juche and Songun ...................................................................................................................................... 5 Tension and change on the Korean Peninsula .......................................................................................... 8 North Korean cyber capabilities and limitations ......................................................................................... 10 North Korean infrastructure.................................................................................................................... 10 An analysis of developments in North Korean cyberspace since 2010 .................................................. 14 North Korean cyber war and intelligence structure ................................................................................ 21 North Korean cyber and intelligence organizational chart ....................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Federal Communications Commission DA 12-1334 Before the Federal
    Federal Communications Commission DA 12-1334 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of ) ) International Comparison Requirements Pursuant ) IB Docket No. 10-171 to the Broadband Data Improvement Act ) GN Docket 11-121 ) International Broadband Data Report ) THIRD REPORT Adopted: August 13, 2012 Released: August 21, 2012 By the Chief, International Bureau: I. INTRODUCTION 1. This is the Commission’s third annual International Broadband Data Report (IBDR or Report). The IBDR is required by the Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA) and provides comparative international information on broadband services.1 Through the presentation of this data, we have the opportunity to evaluate the United States’ rates of broadband adoption, speeds, and prices in comparison to the international community. International data can serve as useful benchmarks for progress in fixed and mobile broadband accessibility. 2. In the past year, both fixed and mobile broadband providers have made significant progress in their efforts to expand broadband networks and improve service quality. As noted in the Eighth 706 Report released today, the market is responding to the needs of Americans for increased broadband capabilities.2 In 2011, U.S. investment in wired and wireless network infrastructure rose 24%.3 Some recent trends show that providers are offering higher speeds, more data under their usage limits, and more advanced technology in both fixed and mobile broadband. For example, cable operators have increased their deployment of DOCSIS 3.0-based data networks, which are capable of providing 100 megabits per second or faster (Mbps) speeds. In the last three years, the percentage of households passed by DOCSIS 3.0 broadband infrastructure has risen from 20% to 82%.4 Advances in broadband technology and initiatives to promote greater deployment and adoption of broadband services have led to broadband- enabled innovation in other fields such as health care, education, and energy efficiency.
    [Show full text]
  • Net and Netizens Played a Critical Role in Roh’S Election
    The Rise of Netizen Democracy A Case Study of Netizens’ Impact on Democracy in South Korea by Ronda Hauben [email protected] The history of democracy also shows that democracy is a moving target, not a static structure. John Markoff What does it mean to be politically engaged today? And what does it mean to be a citizen? The transformation of how we engage and act in society challenges how we perceive the concepts of civic engagement and citizenship, their content and expression. The introduction of new information technologies, most notably in the form of internet, has in turn reinvigorated these discussions. Ylva Johansson Someone may construe that in South Korea politics the major source of power moved from ‘the muzzle of a gun (army)’ to ‘that of the emotion (TV)’ and then to ‘that of logic (Internet)’ in a short time. Yun Young-Min Abstract South Korean netizens are exploring the potential of the internet to make an extension of democracy a reality. The cheering during the World Cup games in Korea in June 2002 organized by the Red Devils online fan club, then the protest against the deaths of two Korean school girls caused by U.S. soldiers were the prelude to the candidacy and election of Roh Moo Hyun, the first head of state whose election can be tracked directly to the activity of the netizens. This is a case study of the South Korean netizen democracy. This case studyis intended as a contribution to a needed broader project to explore the impact netizens are having on extending democratic processes today.
    [Show full text]
  • Asia-Pacific Online
    Asia-Pacific Online December 2003 www.emarketer.com This report is the property of eMarketer, Inc. and is protected under both the United States Copyright Act and by contract. Section 106 of the Copyright Act gives copyright owners the exclusive rights of reproduction, adaptation, publication, performance and display of protected works. Accordingly, any use, copying, distribution, modification, or republishing of this report beyond that expressly permitted by your license agreement is prohibited. Violations of the Copyright Act can be both civilly and criminally prosecuted and eMarketer will take all steps necessary to protect its rights under both the Copyright Act and your contract. If you are outside of the United States: copyrighted United States works, including the attached report, are protected under international treaties. Additionally, by contract, you have agreed to be bound by United States law. Asia-Pacific Online Table of Contents 3 Methodology 7 The eMarketer Difference 8 The Benefits of eMarketer’s Aggregation Approach 9 “Benchmarking” and Projections 9 I Introduction 11 II Asia-Pacific Overview 13 A. Population and Economy 14 B. Population 16 C. PCs 17 D. Internet Users 21 Internet User Forecasts 25 E. Broadband 28 Broadband Users 28 Broadband Forecast 31 Broadband Access Technologies 33 F.Internet Usage 35 G. Wireless and Mobile Content 39 H. Digital TV 44 III Australia 47 A. Internet Users 48 B. Broadband 52 Broadband Access Technologies 56 C. Internet Usage 58 D. Wireless 66 IV China 69 A. Broadband 73 B. Internet Usage 80 C. Wireless 82 D. Digital TV 88 V Hong Kong 89 3 ©2003 eMarketer, Inc.
    [Show full text]
  • Emerging Transnational Coalition of Non-State Actors in East Asia Community Building Seung-Youn Oh Bryn Mawr College, [email protected]
    Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship Political Science 2018 Quiet transformation from the Bottom: Emerging Transnational Coalition of Non-state Actors in East Asia Community Building Seung-Youn Oh Bryn Mawr College, [email protected] Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.brynmawr.edu/polisci_pubs Part of the Asian Studies Commons, Comparative Politics Commons, International Relations Commons, and the Other Political Science Commons Custom Citation Oh S.Y. (2018) Quiet Transformation from the Bottom: Emerging Transnational Networks Among Non-State Actors in Northeast Asia Community-Building. In: Hayes P., Moon CI. (eds) The uturF e of East Asia. Asia Today. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. https://repository.brynmawr.edu/polisci_pubs/41 For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHAPTER 8 Quiet Transformation from the Bottom: Emerging Transnational Networks Among Non-State Actors in Northeast Asia Community-Building Seung Youn Oh In Northeast Asia, an extensive web of informal intra-regional economic and cultural integration coexists with fractious political and security issues that often hinder potential cooperation. The combined experience of colonization at the turn of the twentieth century and the historical rem- nants of the Cold War led to the regional states developing a strong sense of nationalism and intense commitment to the ideals of Westphalian sovereignty.1 Traditional security concerns dominate the region, and nation-states remain the focus of most discussions regarding regional 1Chung-In Moon and Chaesung Chun, “Sovereignty: Dominance of the Westphalian Concept and Implications for Regional Security,” in Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features, ed.
    [Show full text]
  • A Look at North Korea's Limited Internet Capabilities 23 December 2014, Bytong-Hyung Kim and Youkyung Lee
    A look at North Korea's limited Internet capabilities 23 December 2014, byTong-Hyung Kim And Youkyung Lee An hours-long Internet outage Tuesday in one of addresses for a population of 25 million, according the world's least-wired countries was probably to So Young Seo, a researcher at South Korea's more inconvenient to foreigners than to North state-run Korea Information Society Development Korean residents, most of whom have never gone Institute. online. Even for wired Koreans south of the heavily armed border separating the rivals, the temporary North Korea's small circle of Internet users consist outage made little difference—southerners are of elites in the government and military, banned by law from accessing North Korean propagandists and media workers, state-trained websites. hackers and researchers at education institutes such as Kim Il Sung University and the Pyongyang While North Korea tightly controls its citizens' University of Science and Technology, Seo said. activities, especially their access to information on the outside world, it does have a cyberspace. Other North Koreans are limited to the intranet, Here's a look at North Korea's unique broadband which provides access to state media and a limited and mobile Internet, the country's use of email and number of information sources that were pulled and its tightly controlled use of a domestic Intranet. censored from the real Internet. ___ Most common North Koreans probably don't actively use Kwangmyong because owning a INTERNET VS INTRANET computer requires permission from government authorities and would cost as much as three Only a very small number of people among North months' salary for the average worker, Seo said.
    [Show full text]
  • Cybercrime: an Annotated Bibliography of Select Foreign-Language Academic Literature
    CYBERCRIME: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECT FOREIGN-LANGUAGE ACADEMIC LITERATURE An Annotated Bibliography Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the National Institute of Justice November 2009 Researchers: Glenn Curtis Ronald Dolan Seth Elan Noël Ivey Carl Minkus Eric Solsten Taru Spiegel Tomoko Steen Project Manager: Alice R. Buchalter Federal Research Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540−4840 Tel: 202–707–3900 Fax: 202–707–3920 E-Mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/ p 61 Years of Service to the Federal Government p 1948 – 2009 Library of Congress – Federal Research Division Cybercrime: An Annotated Bibliography PREFACE This annotated bibliography reviews the findings of major academic research studies on the prevalence of cybercrime and government efforts to stem its escalation. This bibliography is limited to research published from 2000 to 2008 in the native languages of select countries chosen by the National Institute of Justice—Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Republic of Korea), Russian, Swedish, and Ukrainian. This research is categorized into several subtopics: cybercrime practices defined; cybercrime tools and methods; cybercrime differentiated from traditional crime; cybercrime’s threat to government data systems; the link to terrorism; privacy protection; government and law enforcement response; and relevant laws and conventions. In many of the selected countries, critical analyses of the major issues relative to cybercrime have been published by government agencies and non-academic research institutes. Because of the importance of their findings, these studies have been included in this report as well. An appendix provides additional source material identified during the course of research.
    [Show full text]
  • Use of Internet in Political Participation in South Korea
    Asia Pacific Media ducatE or Issue 15 Article 9 12-2004 Use of internet in political participation in South Korea S. Bhuiyan Texas A&M University, USA Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/apme Recommended Citation Bhuiyan, S., Use of internet in political participation in South Korea, Asia Pacific Media ducatE or, 15, 2004, 115-130. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/vol1/iss15/9 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Use of Internet in Political Participation in South Korea Research Paper: Serajul I Bhuiyan Texas A&M University-Texarkana Abstract This article examines the role of the Internet in political participation in South Korea. It reveals that the Internet brought majority of the voters into the political process and produced a more fact-based election process in South Korea. It also reveals that Internet accessibility has become a stronger factor to explain increased voter participation. This article suggests that the rapid diffusion of Internet along with broadband connections have contributed to the increased use of Internet among young voters. 115 Serajul Bhuiyan: Use of Internet ... Introduction The Internet is increasingly widely used for communication by citizens and governments in different countries and is the subject of much discussions among communication scholars (Verba & Nie, 1972; Nagel, 1987; Lijphart, 1997; Lae Park, 2002; Krueger, 2002a; 2002b). In recent years, South Korea has seen a remarkable diffusion in Internet and its impact on political communication. Over the past five years, South Korea has grown to be one of the world’s most enthusiastic adopters of broadband -- the high-speed Internet connection technology that makes the Internet as ubiquitous as electricity, just as promised by technology gurus.
    [Show full text]
  • The Internet and the Public in South Korea: Online Political Talk and Culture
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship Repository THE INTERNET AND THE PUBLIC IN SOUTH KOREA: ONLINE POLITICAL TALK AND CULTURE BY JEONG-HO KIM DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committee: Professor John Nerone, Chair Professor Clifford Christians Professor Nancy Abelmann Professor Andrew Pickering, University of Exeter Abstract This dissertation is an ethnographic study of online political talk and its culture in South Korea. In this study, I examine the action and culture of online-talk participants from the insider‘s perspective. My main argument is that online political talk has given rise to the subjectivity that characterizes a new type of the public, which I name the simin public. I use simin as the term to refer to a South Korean conception of citizenship. In demonstrating the rise of a subjectivity of the simin public, I first identify and characterize a central practice of online-talk participants: a social role that I term citizen polemicism. This role refers to a set of actions of judging public matters, offering such judgments in public, and arguing with fellow citizens. Then, I investigate what moves quite a few citizens to engage in citizen polemicism and why the voice of the citizen polemicist is considered to be a legitimate public voice. In answering the former question, I argue that citizen polemicists are morally motivated public communicators.
    [Show full text]