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    “Loser” aesthetics: Korean internet freaks and gender politics

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    Author
    Yang, Sunyoung
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Dept East Asian Studies
    Issue Date
    2018-07-31
    
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    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis Group
    Citation
    Sunyoung Yang (2018) “Loser” aesthetics: Korean internet freaks and gender politics, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1503191
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    Feminist Media Studies
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    Abstract
    In the aftermath of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, a new Internet freak culture emerged in South Korea in response to the rapid development of the Internet as well as the country’s neoliberal reforms. At this time, images of losers, freaks, and other surplus populations circulated online. This article examines the gender politics of Internet freaks through an analysis of one online fan forum, the Lee Joon Gi gallery of DCinside.com. Lee’s fan forum acquired a reputation through sexually charged posts from its female-user base in the late 2000s and is still active today. By appropriating attributes of online male culture and forms of communication, such as absurd statements, rudeness, and aggressive sexual expression, the users of this fan community created a carnivalesque space for themselves and subverted rigid Korean gender ideologies. Such parodies have transformed the fear of misogyny and sexism in the offline world into laughter online and become fertile ground for changes in gender politics in online spaces.
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    18 month embargo; published online: 31 July 2018
    ISSN
    1468-0777
    EISSN
    1471-5902
    DOI
    10.1080/14680777.2018.1503191
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    Final accepted manuscript
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