Call for Manuscripts: Special Issue of the AJC
“Hybridization of Reality: Re-Imagining the Communication Environment in Korea”
Guest Editors: Hye-ryeon Lee (University of Hawaii at Manoa); Hyoknam Kwon (Chonbuk National University); Eungjun Min (Rhode Island College)
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Korean American Communication Association, the Asian Journal of Communication will publish a special issue with the theme, Hybridization of Reality: Re-Imagining the Communication Environment in Korea.
The concept of hybridity enables us to explore broadly the impact of new times on the social and political landscape of modernity. At first, one can incorporate foreign elements while it maintains its identity and recognizes the differences. Those elements and the idea of difference then go through the process of naturalization or neutralization within the body of the host culture. Koreans have appropriated global goods, conventions and styles, including music, cuisine, cinema, and fashion, and inscribed their everyday meaning into them. Now their version of glocalized consciousness is appropriated by neighboring countries (i.e., HanRyu: Korean Wave), which has already been appropriating global popular cultural forms to express their local sentiment and culture. This issue aims to improve our understanding of the role of communication in the making of hybridities in Korea through various communication practices such as journalism, interpersonal and organization relations, PR and advertising, media production/reception, international/intercultural relations, cinema, and internet.
Examples of suitable topics or research questions are, but not limited to:
- Is the Internet enabling organizational changes among traditional interest groups and political parties, such that they are starting to resemble looser network forms characteristic of social movements?
- To what extent are new communication technologies changing various practices, understandings, interactions, and goals in the news and strategic media industries?
- How diaspora (e.g., North Korean refugees and temporary foreign workers) and hybridity produce diasporic identities in Korea, and what kind of new approaches would communication scholars need in order to incorporate these new constituents into their theoretical model?
- To what extent is globalization of Korean media industries changing our understanding of communication?
- As the cross-national collaborations are growing in today's organizational operations, how do workers navigate and negotiate colliding identities, cultures, and organizational practices across national boundaries?
- How do organizations maintain, modify, and transform their organizational culture over time, and how does communication play a role in the process?
Please submit manuscripts by email in Microsoft Word format no later than September 30, 2008 to: Professor Eungjun Min (emin@ric.edu or ejmin57@hotmail.com for Hanmail users). Manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed. More information about submission guidelines can be found at www.informaworld.com/rajc. Click “Instructions for Authors.”
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