◆ Modern Society and Web 2.0
Web 1.0 era as the word of "sea of information", we are exposed to a lot of information. Regardless of distance and time, we can easily send information as well as our own private information. Also, the amount of data, in 1989, the European Particle Physics in Switzerland, developed hypertext and MOSAIC invented first web browser in 1993. Those changes helped to
of Citizen Journalism.
1987.11
The Basic Press Law was replaced.
1988.05
Foundation of progressive daily Hankyoreh.
1987~1988
Rapid growth of the press union movement.
Formation of KFPS(the Korean Federation of Press Unions).
1990's
The independent press movement treats more priority to specific media issues
Despite all the improvements,
the press was still on weak footing.
of Naver. Because search engine of Naver cuts noise out, and makes information organized.)
Globally increasing internet usage
Increasing smart-phone market
Emerging of local search engine services
Search engine services like Google has emerged until now. Search engine services that are provided from local company fit in with specific culture well and offer customized contents for
of social media all take part in accelerating the process of globalization. Through our paper, we will give evidence on how social media sped up the spread of globalization.
II. Definition and History of Social Media
(1) Definition
Before looking at specific details, it is important to define social media first. Andrees M. Kaplan and others defined social media as follows:
“Social Media
of at least 2 counterparts so that opinion diversity is possible. Also one of main opinion was a message saying “for the nation’s own sake” which leaded the dimension of issue-related debates to the nation-individual problem. So another dimension rather than patriotism emerged for those issues. This is the simple perspective to see the 4 ones and specific features are as following.
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