Abstract
This paper critically investigates the cultural phenomenon surrounding the news mobile phone app in which ‘curation’, relying on the news editing and adaption, has become much more significant than making the news directly. This study affirm the fact that a copying culture which is basically a combinative effect of duplication (alias) and imitation(mimesis) enables us enrich the human beings’ creative activities. However, we need to warn the regressive aspects of copying culture challenging the journalistic principles. This study exemplifies a case of Pikicast, which has become the most rapid growing news content mobile app in Korea. By doing a case study, this paper suggests that ‘social gift’ should be given to the online users as a whole. The communal and social gift would be an alternative way to the unpaid crawling of the news resources from the digital commons by the news content curating corporation such as Pikicast.
| Translated title of the contribution | Rethinking the Right to Culture in the Digital Age: The Issues of Copying Culture and Content Curation |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 197-224 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | 한국언론정보학보 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| State | Published - Dec 2015 |