인터넷매체를 이용한 기독교문화의 확산방안 모색 = Searching for the Ways to Spread the Christian Culture Using the Internet

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It's been long since Korea has more than its population as the Internet users, which makes the group of them represent the whole society of ours rather than a mere group comprised of certain members. Getting wide and diverse in its users, the Internet has been exercising its impacts on the society as a cultural environment beyond its characteristics as a medium. The older generations often get embarrassed with its impacts on kids and adolescents. Korea is different from other countries in terms of the Internet users and their patters of Internet use. There is also difference in the degree of the Internet impacts on the real cultures between Korea and other countries. In Korea, the Internet culture usually reflects the trends in the real society as they are One of its serious dysfunctions is its repeating the vicious circle in which it enlarges and reproduces the trends in the real society and then comes back to the real cultures with its bad influences. In order to understand the mechanisms of the Internet's cultural impacts, it is necessary to make a structural investigation of them by linking the other side of the Internet-related cultural phenomena with the real society. Further, it should be examined what are the basic features and principles inherent in the cyber space that has powers over the society as a kind of environment.
The Christian culture is inferior to the popular culture in strength. There have been no other times when cultural missionary or cultural service is spoken as much as now. They say a culture influences consciousness. The more is consciousness influenced by the popular culture, the smaller does the place get where the Christian culture can stand. The Internet culture has resemblances with the popular culture in its expansion. One thing that should be kept in mind here is that the medium called the Internet has immense power over enlarging and reproducing cultures and that it cannot be missed or forgotten in the process of spreading the Christian senses of value and the Christian culture. The usage of the Internet to the Christian interest doesn't seem to promise a rosy future, but there should be some measures to be taken. The significance of this paper can be found in that it suggested the ways for the Christian culture to exercise its cultural influences in the Internet space where the order or standards are not established yet.
The paper consists of four parts; The first one presents the current status of Korea's Internet culture, which can be described in the aspect of the teen-oriented Internet culture, the unbalance among information producers due to dominating commercialism, the expansion of subcultures(low grade cultures), and the trend toward mysticism and occult ideas. Then second part examines the specific structural and media characteristics of the cyber space and their relationships with the current Internet cultural phenomena. The media characteristics of the cyber space include transcendency(It transcends me in reality), power satisfaction(I believe I can control), curiosity and fantasy(The expectations that something must be there), intimacy and tolerance(I feel that I am recognized and considered), immediacy(Something is in my hands with a click), anonyrnity(I trust that I won't be revealed) and religion(the life out of the body). The meanings and distinctive features of these are also investigated. As for the third part, the efforts are made to find a clue in the recent Christianity-related cultural phenomena. The possibility is found in the cases that non Christian people were affected by some Christian books including those by C. S. Lewis and a success story of a magazine that made a hit following Christian senses of value Finally, the last part is comprised of concrete alternatives and plans. A careful approach was made to the plan to sublimate the Christian senses of value through new entertainment media such as the online games, that of making use of the influences of the Internet that attracts so many adolescents, and that to suggest the specific standards of Christian ethics in advance. It's an eager wish that the paper win make even the smallest contribution to the spread of the Christian culture using the Internet.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. 인터넷 문화의 현주소
• Ⅲ. 사이버 공간의 매체적 특성
• Ⅳ. 실마리 찾기
• Ⅴ. 대안을 찾아서
• 참고문헌
• Abstract