Essay - Communication on the Internet the Internet as a Part of...

Communication on the Internet

The Internet as a part of everyday life

As has been menti*****ed previously in the paper, the Internet boom ***** Korea is far greater than any other country in the world, which ***** why the use and popularity of Internet is a very common phenomenon in the region. With reg*****rds to the role played by ***** Internet as a popular everyday medium ***** the context of social capital, *****re are *****pects ***** the ***** that ***** obviously encouraging and supporting the construct of social growth and the development of newer social groups that might not have been possible if Internet had not been the medium *****d.

After conducting the interviews on how major or integral a part the Internet ***** become of ***** average person's n*****mal ***** one can see that almost all the interviewees ***** agreed to the omnipresence ***** necessity of the Internet in their daily work*****g responsibilities. For instance, Kyungmin has clearly stated that his/her work is directly dependent upon his/her access to the computer. The domestication theory plays a huge part in this as one can see that Kyungm***** is using his/her Internet or ***** access ***** increase his informative, communicative as well as industrial information. He/she carries out all his/her communication through the Internet ***** ***** show an exclusion pattern from ***** norm of face to face or interactive communication. However, he/she is not limiting his/her communication to the people he/she knows, in fact, he/she is extend*****g his/her expanse of contacts by ***** with other business networks which is ***** one ***** see both bridging and bonding patterns here.

Similarly, for other interviewees Jehyun, Heesoo and Minjong, Internet and the use of computer applications h***** become more of a necessity to fin*****h their worklo*****d than anything else. The hours of work ***** they put in, in ***** opinion, is ***** upon the time that ***** spend on the computer whether it be to design, transfer or over***** a business transaction. One important pattern to be noted here is that even though these ********** might not ***** using the Internet as much as the ***** applications, they tend to prefer surfing the ***** whenever they have the chance as opposed to interacting with other office employees. This supports the exclusion theory of social capital.

Byungdoo, another interviewee, *****s a similar *****. He/she is very candid about the fact that even though his computer is on and he/she ***** logged on to the IM, he/she does not necessarily use it. He/she uses it to communicate w*****h whomever he wants, whenever he *****. This shows a p*****ttern of ***** exclusion theory as the user is dependent ***** his/her friends' arrival on the IM to carry out communication as ***** to ***** ***** ***** face format of communication.

***** ***** these answers reveal that Internet is an omnipresent existence for most of the ***** ********** students. Their social ***** well as work-related activities are ***** limited to their access ***** the *****. For *****m, Internet