국내 기술잉여사회의 형성과 특수성 연구

There have been technologically distorted naturalization and overzealous digital culture in theformation and development of digital society in Korea. While the suppressive aspects of the‘neo-’authoritarian control and regulation have been excessively centered on the Internet, theautonomous actions of online users from below, with regards to their roles in agenda-setting function,have been evolved as the political. This paper aims to investigate the specificities in the developmentalmode of digital technology in Korean society since the mid-90s. In this paper, ‘techno-surplus’depicts the state that the abnormal is embedded within a technological artifact beyond its receptiveability. ‘Techno-surplus society’ designates such an extreme case of specifying technological surplus.
In fact, the term of ‘techno-surplus society’ can be used for a metaphor symbolizing our society,in which social distortion and abnormality caused by ‘techno-surplus’ have been quite frequentlyhappening, in its comparison to a degree of normality in the institutional politics. This paper exploresthe local specificities of ‘techno-surplus society’, in which the regressive aspects have stand outas being more different from the technological developments in China, Japan and the U.S.