K-Pop Twitter as a Site of Transnational Social Media Activism
Galantowicz, Sorrel
Galantowicz, Sorrel
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This project aims to examine social media as a platform for political organization and social change beyond geographical boundaries in the context of K-pop fans and their transnational online community. Social media and twitter specifically have long been a site of activism and popular music has always had a place in social commentary. In this paper, I seek to understand this phenomenon in the context of the large and ever growing global community of Korean pop fans. Recently, in mid 2020 we have seen the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and, to the shock of many, a rise in political engagement from the K-pop fan community in a number of highly publicized events. Using data collected from twitter I will study the expressive sentiments and strategic organization of this population and how said action is perceived and engaged with by the media and general public. Similarly, I will study the transnational networks that facilitate this communal activism and the cross cultural communication required for this level of organizational success and notoriety.
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2021-01-01