The Thumb Tribe and other Korea-related Gigs

Although my research project (2007-2010) about Korean new media culture funded by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation has ended a few years ago, the typing of Korea-related texts is not. Here are a few of my recent recent publications.

Eomjijok – The Korean thumb tribe. Reflections of young and urban Koreans’ mobile communication in Digital Pioneers. Cultural drivers of future media culture (ed. by Sonja Kangas). Published by the Finnish Youth Research Society. [READ THE WHOLE BOOK]

Keeping in Touch: The Significance of the Mobile Phone to Young People in South Korea in IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet, 8 (2): 28-41. [SEE THE CONTENTS OF THE ISSUE and mail me for a copy]

“Our Beautiful Land Dokdo!” The Role of Rhetoric and Nationalist Narrative in South Korean Attitudes to the Ownership of the Disputed Dokdo Island. Teoksessa Desmond Ball, Anthony Milner, Matthew Hill & Mary Quilty (toim.), The Languages of Security in the Asia-Pacific: Case Studies. Australian Research Council-Australian National University. [In Press, READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT]

In case you know Finnish and are interested in Korean visions of education, see my interview for YLE Teema: Hyppytunti, a program about education below (extended online version, first aired 12 Dec 2011).

South Korea: Towards a Ubiquitous Mediascape

Last week I finished a manuscript to appear in Turo Uskali's (ed.) forthcoming volume titled Media Futures. The text is sort of summarizing piece of my Korean Media Culture research project (2006-2009) funded by Helsingin Sanomat Foundation. If you're interested enough to read the manuscript please feel free to comment!

Future lectures

Here's my updated schedule for lecturing:

• December 17th: "The Role of the Citizen in the Korean Ubiquitous Society Vision" as a part of The World of Civil Societies lecture series at University of Jyväskylä Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy
• Feb-Mar, 2009: "Suomalaisuuden myytit ja symboliikka: kansakunnan kulttuurista tarkastelua [= The Myths and Symbolism of Finnishness: Cultural Analysis of a Nation]," lecture series at University of Tampere School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies
• February 11th, 2009: "Korean Media Culture" as a part of the Transnational Asian Media Cultures lecture series of University of Tampere Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

Plus I'm the examiner of Indian Studies (part of Intercultural Studies) at the University of Jyväskylä Department of Communication and Language and Communication in East and Southeast Asia by the Finnish National University Network for East and Southeast Asian Studies.