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Cyber Troops in Networked KoreaMain MenuPrologue: A Declaration of the Independence of CyberspacePrologue: Myth of Free SpeechGenealogy of Comment Troops in KoreaTeam Alpha in Spring 2008NIS Cyber Squad in 2009-2012Formalizing comment troops as a subunit of NISSip-Al-Dan in 2012Smear political campaign by comment troops in 2012Wedge-Driving Twitter Rumors in 2013Propaganda rumors during sabre-rattling with N. Korea in 2013Characteristics of Comment Troops in South KoreaReferencesK. Hazel Kwon1b817f2c0ff691848388b7520736084cfe07409d
Course Description
12018-05-15T01:33:06-07:00K. Hazel Kwon1b817f2c0ff691848388b7520736084cfe07409d3036112plain2019-06-11T23:46:13-07:00Ronae Matriano8ed24d71e6036affdb22f6e2fd0ec83a8e515e95Keywords: South Korea, Media manipulation, Social media, Comment troops, Online discussion, Propaganda
This module aims to discuss the status of digital media manipulation in contemporary networked Korea.
The issue of digital media manipulation has recently surfaced in Western societies, along with major events such as the US presidential election, Brexit, and even more recently, Cambridge Analytica.
Concerns about manipulative activities on the Net are not idiosyncratic to the West. Digital media manipulation has grown as a serious social malaise in other parts of the world, including South Korea as well. Government-led digital manipulation especially poses a serious danger to democracy.
Bradshaw and Howard (2017) define "government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating public opinion over social media" as "cyber troops." In South Korea, cyber troops are referred to as "comment troops."
This module traces a genealogy of comment troops in South Korea. Comment troops are one of the most obvious examples of online manipulations, with serious social and cultural ramifications for South Korea's contemporary digital culture.
The learning objectives of this module are:
to gain global insights on the issue of cyber troops with an example of South Korean society.
to discuss what makes media manipulation an intractable social phenomenon, particularly in the South Korean context.
to reflect on what digital citizens should do to come close to Barlow’s vision for the self-governing Internet.
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