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Care as a Border‐Crossing Language: The Webtoon Reader Discussion Forum as Mediascape

Care as a Border‐Crossing Language: The Webtoon Reader Discussion Forum as Mediascape Drawing from Appadurai’s notion of mediascape, in which global cultural flows simultaneously construct local/global perspectives, I explored how youth and young adults across the globe make sense of digitally shared space, with a specific focus on the Webtoon reader discussion forum. Findings illustrated that the participants constructed the notion of care as standing up for others, raised awareness of social justice, and mobilized transcultural values to construct a cross‐cultural community with multimodal engagements. By understanding the reader discussion forum as a mutually constitutive negotiated space, the voluntary decision of these young individuals to engage in Korean Webtoon digital space underscores how they construct literacy practices across the globe while transcending demarcated categories of race, gender, language, culture, and other essentialized identity markers. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Wiley

Care as a Border‐Crossing Language: The Webtoon Reader Discussion Forum as Mediascape

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy , Volume 64 (6) – May 1, 2021

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2021 International Literacy Association
ISSN
1081-3004
eISSN
1936-2706
DOI
10.1002/jaal.1147
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Abstract

Drawing from Appadurai’s notion of mediascape, in which global cultural flows simultaneously construct local/global perspectives, I explored how youth and young adults across the globe make sense of digitally shared space, with a specific focus on the Webtoon reader discussion forum. Findings illustrated that the participants constructed the notion of care as standing up for others, raised awareness of social justice, and mobilized transcultural values to construct a cross‐cultural community with multimodal engagements. By understanding the reader discussion forum as a mutually constitutive negotiated space, the voluntary decision of these young individuals to engage in Korean Webtoon digital space underscores how they construct literacy practices across the globe while transcending demarcated categories of race, gender, language, culture, and other essentialized identity markers.

Journal

Journal of Adolescent & Adult LiteracyWiley

Published: May 1, 2021

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