디지털 기억공간에서 민족주의가 발현되는 방식에 대한 연구 - 한중일 네티즌의 갈등사례와 정체성을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to identify how the nationalism is manifested in digital memory space with the case study of conflicts among Northeast Asian (Korea/China/Japan) Netizens. The distinct features of nationalism as is manifested in digital memory space are, 1) because of the network characteristics, the condensation and diffusion of the (dis)information and discourse are very rapid and wide; 2) the area of conflicts covers the issues of territory, history, and society/culture; 3) the emotional hatred and jingoistic languages against each other are used in digital memory space. In order to determine the identities of netizens and to explore the consequences of these conflicts happening in digital memory space upon the real political/social/economic world, four aspects should be further investigated, 1) who are the netizens involved in these conflicts; 2) how do they behave as a collectivity and communicate; 3) what are the proper relationship with the real world nationalism; and 4) how the government and civil society can and should respond to these viral mobilization in order to achieve peace and stability in Northeast Asia.