活動

Communication Seminar Series – The Flip from Fraught to Assumed use: Mobile Communications of North Korean women during their journey to South Korea by Dr. Juhee Kang

鏈接

https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/tc/?p=45807

列印

Communication Seminar Series - The Flip from Fraught to Assumed use: Mobile Communications of North Korean women during their journey to South Korea by Dr. Juhee Kang

日期：

2018年1月30日

時間：

上午11時至下午12時30分

地點：

中文大學新亞書院人文館313室

講者：

Dr. Juhee KangResearch Fellow, United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society

報名：

http://event.ebooking.com.cuhk.edu.hk/

查詢：

manlokchan@cuhk.edu.hk / Tel: 39437701 (Miss Mandy Chan)

講座摘要：

Every year hundreds of North Koreans cross the Tumen River running through the Sino-Korean border in the search for a better life elsewhere. This talk examines the migratory experiences of North Korean women who flipped their home between two Koreas. In particular, I’ll analyzes the role of mobile communications in their journey as they transposed from the world’s most digitally-disconnected society to one of the most digitally-oriented societies. Based on qualitative interviews with North Korean women settled in South Korea, the study finds their mobile use during the journey was clandestine and fraught with danger but also a critically instrumental for the escape. By contrast, in their flipped home in South Korea where not having a mobile phone is a problem, their use of mobile is structured in everyday life while it is somewhat hindered by discrimination and re-designed for their need of anonymous bridging.