[KS] North Korea 'new media'

Afostercarter at aol.com Afostercarter at aol.com
Thu Apr 21 04:35:49 EDT 2011


Dear friends and colleagues,
 
It's all too easy to miss articles about Korea 
which appear in non-specialist publications.
 
One such, which should not be missed, is this:
 
Robert S Boynton, "North Korea’s  Digital Underground"
The Atlantic April 2011. 
 
It's available - freely, I think - at:
_http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/north-korea-8217-s-digi
tal-underground/8414/1/_ 
(http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/north-korea-8217-s-digital-underground/8414/1/) 
 
This is the best account I've yet seen of who these  people
are, what they are up to, and how and why they do  it.
 
Such new media have excited some  controversy.
For contrasting recent views on them, see  eg
_http://38north.org/2011/04/quagmire/_ 
(http://38north.org/2011/04/quagmire/) 
and 
_http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MD19Dg01.html_ 
(http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MD19Dg01.html) 
 
 
Kind regards
Aidan FC
 
 
Aidan  Foster-Carter 
Honorary  Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds 
University,  UK
 
 
 
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