대안매체로서의 사이버공간의 가능성과 한계

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Some recent surveys show the number of worldwide Internet users is more than 300million and it goes beyond 10million in South Korea. That means cyberspace through which men and women interact each other and discuss concerning their interests is rapidly widen and peoples participating in that space are sharply increasing.
The purpose of this study is to discuss on the potentialities and limits of cyberspace as an alternative media. ‘Alternative media’ and ‘Cyberspace’ are key words of this speculative study. Alternative media movement has arisen from 1970s both as a reaction against the centralism, bureaucratization, and vertical communication of existing media system and as a positive move towards new forms of media system. The movement was primarily based on democratic-participant media hypothesis and ‘alternative public sphere’ discussions and helped to develop them. So, alternative media movement favoured openness, decentralization and horizontality of communication, interaction, interchange of sender-receiver roles, smallness of sale, multiplicity, and so on. Many observers find out those components of alternative media in cyberspace. They emphasize that cyberspace is a democratic and participant medium characterized by openness, horizontality, decentralization, small-scale, interaction, and alternative public sphere, and so on.
However, it is also true that cyberspace has some limits to realize its own possibilities and potentialities. Some people still far from using cyberspace freely. In cyberspace, there are still stratification resulted from existing economoc and technological power; there are still external control and cencorship; moreover, there are some specific evidences showing the limitations of cyberspace as alternative media or public sphere. In this study, I suggest three requirements for realization of potentialities of cyberspace as alternative media; construction of technological infrastructure for universal service, democratic institutionalization for utilizing cyberspace, and enlargement of civil society area and enlightenment of citizen for civil empowerment.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 서론
• 2. 커뮤니케이션 기술과 ‘대안매체’ 운동의 전개
• 3. ‘대안매체’ 의 일반적 지향 특성
• 4. ‘대안매체’ 로서의 사이버 공간의 가능성과 한계
• 5. 결론
• 참고 문헌
• Abstract