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Detection Method for Distributed Web‐Crawlers: A Long‐Tail Threshold Model

Security and Communication Networks, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018
This paper proposes an advanced countermeasure against distributed web‐crawlers. We investigated other methods for crawler detection and analyzed how distributed crawlers can bypass these methods. Our method can detect distributed crawlers by focusing on the property that web traffic follows the power distribution.
Inwoo Ro +3 more
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Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production

Social Media + Society
Webtoons optimize interactivity and participation of media users in the world of digital media by consolidating a unique digital culture. This article examines the role of users in interactive media by exploring the case of webtoons in the context of a ...
Sunny Yoon
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The Global Impact of South Korean Women's Narratives: Amplifying Female Voices through Webtoons and Drama Adaptations

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
The current international influence of female creators in the webtoon industry of South Korea challenges gender barriers within the traditionally male-dominated comic and film sector.
Alfonso Ruiz Rallo, Dácil Roca Vera
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“This is the Work I'm Most Proud of”: K‐Pop Fandom and Children's Multilingual Literacy Practices

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how children's affective investments in K‐pop generated sustained multilingual literacy practices in an arts‐based bookmaking project. Drawing on Pennycook's concept of language assemblages and Norton's investment framework, and informed by Paris and Alim's distinction between heritage and community practices, we analyse ...
Julie Choi, Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens
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Comics as Heritage: Theorizing Digital Futures of Vernacular Expression

Heritage
This paper investigates digital comics—particularly webcomics and webtoons—as emerging forms of cultural heritage, analyzing their exponential global influence alongside the limitations of traditional heritage frameworks in systematically preserving them.
Ilan Manouach, Anna Foka
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Characterizing In Vivo Exposure to Alcohol Content in the Media: Media Platform, Engagement, and Associations With Attitudes

Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, Volume 50, Issue 6, June 2026.
Media alcohol‐related content (ARC) is prevalent and associated with adolescent drinking. This study collected real‐time data about ARC exposure across multiple digital media sources. Many of the 8792 ARC exposures originated from influencers or the alcohol industry. Most content was believed to promote alcohol use, although engagement with content was
Kristina M. Jackson +9 more
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Webtoon-Based Global Transmedia Storytelling: Bloodhounds

Global Storytelling
This article examines webtoon-based transnational transmedia by mapping out the ways in which webtoons become big-screen culture as a new trend in the Korean Wave phenomenon. With a case study of Bloodhounds (2023), which is one of the successful webtoon-
Dal Yong Jin
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The Effects of Freewriting on L2 Writing Fluency, Emotions, and Perceptions Among Secondary EFL Learners

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1771-1781, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Freewriting is a writing technique where individuals write continuously for a set time without editing or revising. This study examines its effects on English as a foreign language (EFL) writing fluency, emotions, and learner perceptions among 149 Korean 8th‐grade students. Over ten weeks, students participated in eight five‐minute freewriting
Yi Seul Choi, Minkyung Kim
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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
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‘I keep getting TT duds’: Examining sponsorship using algorithmically driven reading recommendations on #BookTok and Webtoons

Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This study explores how literary content is sponsored, shaped and evaluated within two popular literary and reader‐centric digital platforms: #BookTok and Webtoon. Grounded in a literacy sponsorship framework, we trace how material and immaterial sponsors, including platform algorithms, user commentary and engagement metrics, mediate access to
Sarah Jerasa, Karis Jones
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