사이버 공간의 의사소통 구조와 사이버 시민성의 교육 - 촛불 시위의 사례를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The Candle-lit Demonstration in Korea might be considered as a green light signal to the future of Cyber Democracy. In other perspective, it can be considered as a funeral bell for the death of Plural Mass Democracy. In this article, I want to argue that the communication structure of candle-lit protest mass's was much more autonomous and autopoietic than ever expected. I adopted Social Network Analysis method to present more visulized landscape images of interactive communication system in internet cyberspace. Communicative Netizen can be divided into three - Digital Star, Digital Mass, Traditional Social Ties Group - categories. By tracing every routes of their complex communication links, I can find two arguments. First, Digital Star can disperse his own idea through the internet network as fast as possible, but his power of influence to alter other's opinion might be much smaller than expected. Second, despite of the low speed and narrow range of information spreading, the Traditional Social Tie Groups were more powerful agents in the sphere of political group behaviors. Then, I suggested that we should put more stresses on the Information Ethics Education which can be helpful with raising the responsible netizen with 'Cyber Citizenship'