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Co‐creative gift systems within digital platforms
Abstract This study explores co‐creative gift systems within digital platforms. We define co‐creative gift systems as systems where consumers actively engage in content creation and co‐creation, disseminating original artistic digital gifts (i.e., content such as novels, videos, music) on digital platforms and engaging in collaborative exchanges that ...
Isabella Ciampa, Kristine de Valck
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Technology affordances and social withdrawal: The rise of hikikomori
Abstract The prevalence of social withdrawal behaviors has been a growing concern in recent years. The concept of hikikomori, a severe social withdrawal condition, has gained increasing attention in high‐income societies and developed economies. The term applies to both the condition and the person experiencing it.
Ha Eun (Grace) Park +1 more
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Hyperrealism and the Portrayal of Women in South Korean Webtoons
This article looks at “hyperrealism” and the representation of women and feminism in South Korean webtoons. The webtoon genres of “daily life” and “slice-of-life” act as forms of self-expression and tell relatable stories.
Molisso, Sarah
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Este artigo propõe analisar o fenômeno da Webtoon em sua complexidade conceitual que envolve desde a construção de plataformas de leitura até a construção de um novo estilo de histórias em quadrinhos. O objetivo é descrever como o conceito de webtoon foi se diferenciando com o passar dos anos, a partir dos quadrinhos eletrônicos e de uma versão mais ...
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The sociocultural reasons for the growth of webtoons as snack culture and snack culture’s influence in big-screen culture have received little scholarly attention.
Dal Yong Jin
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Becoming the Villainess: An Exploration of a New Feminine Identity in Otome Isekai Manga and Webtoons [PDF]
The cultural wave of East Asia continues to grow with Korean webtoons and manhwa being the latest cultural export of Hallyu. Along with Japanese manga, the value webtoons and manhwa have in storytelling through various genres can’t be overstated. This is
Kargbo, Muziah
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At the Asian Transmedia Storytelling in the Age of Digital Media Conference held in Vancouver, Canada, June 8–9, 2018, webtoonist Yoon Tae Ho as a keynote speaker shared several interesting and important inside stories people would not otherwise hear ...
Dal Yong Jin
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Le webtoon et la fabrique de l’événement
In this article, we explore the background of the emergence of webtoons in France. The webtoon, a digital story designed for “scrolled” reading on smartphones and aimed primarily at teenagers and young adults, was able to establish itself firmly in the ...
Florence Rio, Elsa Tadier
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A Study on Webtoon Generation Using CLIP and Diffusion Models
This study focuses on harnessing deep-learning-based text-to-image transformation techniques to help webtoon creators’ creative outputs. We converted publicly available datasets (e.g., MSCOCO) into a multimodal webtoon dataset using CartoonGAN ...
Kyungho Yu +4 more
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Webtoons e Manhwas: digital access and its influence on Brazil’s reading
South Korea has gained more space each year as a global influence, regarding its culture and lifestyle; however, it is associated to the country’s capacity of cultural expansion on global terms.
Branco, Letícia Veiga Castello
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