Smartland Korea : mobile communication, culture, and society / Dal Yong Jin.

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Part I. Innovation and mobile communication ; 1. The rise of smartland Korea ; 2. Ecolution of smartphone technologies: putting smarts into the phone ; Part II. Political economy of the smartphone systems ; 3. Neoliberal transformation of the mobile telecommunications systems ; 5. App economy in the digital plataform era ; 6. From digital divide to digital inclusion in the smartphone era ; Part III. Smartphones and youth culture ; 7. Transformative mobile game culture on the smartphone ; 8. Reimagining smartphones: kakao talk and youth culture ; 9. Beyond smartland Korea.

Smartland Korea, as the first attempt to comprehensively analyze mobile communication in the context of Korean smartphones, looks into a largely neglected focus of inquiry, a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Koreans' engagement with their devices and applications. Dal Yong Jin focuses not only on the celebratory achievement of technological advancement, but also the significance of social milieu in the development of the smartphones. He situates the emergence of smartphones within the growth of mobile technologies and overall telecommunications industries embedded in Korea's information and communication technologies. The book examines the technology's innovation and the evolution, the digital economy through the lens of political economy, and the youth culture embedded in the Korean smartphone context. Contraportada.