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1. Framing an Unanticipated Public Experience in New York City -- 2. The Public Setting of an Unexpected Experience in New York City -- 3. The Essence of a Public Experience in New York City: The Situated Self in Public I -- 4. A Public Experience in New York City from the Lens of a Victim: The Situated Self in Public II -- 5. A Public Experience in New York City from the Lens of a Bystander: The Situated Self in Public II -- 6. The Present Style of Public Life in New York City -- 7. Conclusions and Implications.

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Mediated Accounts of Graduate Education and Advising Relationships among US Korean Graduate Students Chapter 2 - Mediated Accounts of Institutional Matters upon Advising Relationships Chapter 3 - Mediated Accounts of Academic Matters upon Advising Relationships Chapter 4 - Mediated Accounts of Cultural Matters upon Advising Relationships Chapter 5 - Mediated Accounts of Social Matters upon Advising Relationships Chapter 6 - Conclusions and Implications Notes Bibliography Index

"In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks--families, friends, etc.--in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. This is something that has received very little attention in the academic field of international immigration which Oh hopes to rectify through this book. He focuses on the five American social institutions (immigration, welfare, education, housing, and finance) to explore this topic through the lens of married Korean-American women. In their online 'MissyUSA' community, the largest Korean-American women's online community in North America, they share a wide range of information about the rules of each of these social institutions as they work together to navigate American society. Oh explores how the 'MissyUSA' community creates two distinctive forms of social capital: social resources and social support. For some of its members (inquirers or information seekers), the 'MissyUSA' community functions as an important source of their information (social resources) about the rules of the American social institutions. Likewise, it also functions as a network of social supporters (respondents or information providers) for those information seekers. Here, what makes this book a significant one is the fact that these social supporters are distinctively identified as instrumental guiders (information describers, expositors, confirmers, and advisors) and emotional supporters (companions, encouragers, and critics). By researching the lives of Korean-American women who are members of the 'MissyUSA' community, Oh's book works to understand how a sub-set of the Korean-American community shares information about American institutions and uses the internet to do so"--Provided by publisher

This study of a Korean-American women's online community, also known as the "MissyUSA" community, has incorporated the concept of social capital with an important topic within each of three major migration research areas—legal immigration status in assimilation, the retention of Korean culinary culture in cultural pluralism, and transnational plans in transnationalism. The central argument of this article is that this "MissyUSA" community creates social capital for its online members. One important form of social capital stressed here is social resources that correspond to its online members' (information seekers) access to valuable information regarding the process of obtaining legal status as documented immigrants, Korean-style cuisines, and their transnational plans. Moreover, social support is also regarded in this study as another form of social capital. In this case, the "MissyUSA" community becomes a network of social supporters by which they (respondents) support its information seekers through the transmission of their knowledge and/or through their positive emotional reactions.

Much of the past research on rotating credit associations (RCAs) in the U.S. Korean community has been conducted in the context of Korean entrepreneurs' success in small businesses. By contrast, little has been known about the significance of RCAs in the lives of Korean immigrant workers. Based on a sample of Korean female workers at Korean-owned nail salons in the New York–New Jersey area, the first aim of this study is to address whether Korean immigrant workers, like Korean immigrant merchants, take into account RCAs as a way to save money or raise capital. Second, this study also speculates about the importance of embeddedness (Granovetter) and social capital (Portes and Sensenbrenner) views for both economic behavior and a likelihood of malfeasance by RCA participants. Lastly, this study regards RCA membership as a mechanism of social support for its participating members. Overall, the analyses provide evidence that RCA membership at nail salons leads to both economic benefit and social support for some of its participants, and that embedded networks and an accompanying sense of trust have some connection to the suppression of its members' latent malfeasance.

Abstract.  With the growing concern over the causal relationship between crime and population change, this study readdresses the importance of economic organization in studying population change in a metropolitan area. This study investigates the dynamic influences of internal and external factors on population change in either central cities or their suburbs. The units of analysis in this study are the 142 U.S. central cities and their suburban rings of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in 1980 and 1990. Two change models (semi‐difference and mixed‐difference models) are used to predict population change. The results demonstrate that population change in one territory of a metropolitan area is affected by crime and employment opportunity in both locations of a metropolitan area.

Starting from the rationale that elderly urban residents tend to be "neighborhood‐bound," this study examines the relationship between age or aging and local social bonds (friendship, social cohesion and trust, informal social control, and participation in local organizations). Specifically, is the level of local bonding among elderly urban residents (age 65 and over) greater than that of the younger cohorts (17–35, 34–49, and 50–64)? Additionally, two specific hypotheses are constructed to examine the determinants of local social bonds among elderly urban residents: the systemic approach, regarding length of residence; and the social‐disorganization approach, regarding crime victimization and perceived disorder. Using Chicago data collected in 1995, the analysis found a substantial difference between the elderly cohort and each of the younger cohorts in only the friendship category of local social bonds. The other results show that in a sample of elderly urban residents, length of residence is the only significant, positive factor in local friendship, and that the two disorder predictors, physical and social, play a substantial role in weakening two types of local social bonds, social cohesion and trust and informal social control.

Introduction / Hojeong Lee and Joong-Hwan Oh -- Diversity of online news media : source and frame analyses / Dong Geun Lee and In Cheol Min -- Constructing collective memory in the digital era : an analysis of news stories on the former president's death / Hojeong Lee -- Relationships between online users' perceived journalistic roles and news engagement : the moderating role of credibility / Md. Asraful Alam and Kyun Soo Kim -- A functional analysis of the 2007 South Korean presidential campaign blogs / Sung Wook Hwang and William L. Benoit -- The influence of blog posting on issue involvement and political participation / Nohil Park -- YouTube videos as a means of grassroots mobilization in Korea's candlelight movements : "learning from YouTube" revisited / Gooyong Kim and Dong-Hyun Byun -- Who talks politics? : an empirical study of online and offline casual political communication / Taewoo Nam -- The Internet and social media : integrated consequences for political discussion for Korean college students / Najin Jun -- Why does the press still matter? Explaining the conditional effects of online mobilization of protest on newspaper market structures in Asia / Shin Haeng Lee -- Digital revolution or digital dominance? Regime type, Internet control, and political activism in East Asia / Min-Hua Huang and Wen Hong -- Does SNS make gender differences in political participation? South Korean case study / Kyong-Jae Song, Seok-Jin Lew, and Heisung Kum -- Revisiting the cultural logic of politics in the digital age : Internet use, personalization of political action, and Asian values / Shin Haeng Lee -- Determinants of unaffiliated citizen protests : the Korean candlelight protests of 2016-2017 / WooJin Kang -- A matter of trust and utility? Perceptions of online political content, protest, and political participation in South Korea / Hyun Tae Kim, Kyung Bo Kim, Hailey Hyun-kyung Oh, and Yeon Kyoung Joo -- Same despair but different hope : youth activism in East Asia and contentious politics / Yunjeong Joo -- #MeToo in South Korea : a comparative analysis of feminist perspectives in a cultural context / Chris Larsen.

Using time-use data collected in South Korea and the United States, this study examines what Internet users would do if they did not spend time online and whether these activities would include face-to-face social interaction, an important condition for a sense of attachment, physical and psychological health, and social integration. In contrast to most previous studies, we attempt to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity by either using a fixed-effects method or identifying random non-users—Internet users who do not go online on a specific day. Moreover, our cross-cultural comparison helps find more generalisable effects of Internet use. Despite the inconsistent statistical significance in the US and some differences between societies, overall, the results indicate that online time displaces time spent on face-to-face interaction with family and non-family members.

This edited volume unveils diverse issues and factors related to health disparities in contemporary Korean Society. It illustrates how economic and social changes unequally impact different subpopulations, including employees, the elderly, children, and immigrants and describes why health policy and intervention is needed now.

"This book analyzes the intersections of race, class, gender and inequalities in global migration through an examination of migration policies and migrants in South Korea from undocumented workers to white elite migrants. The chapters reveal the differentiation and divergence of migration experiences due to race, class, gender, and place of origin"--