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KakaoTalk and Facebook: Korean American Youth Constructing Hybrid
Identities explores the role smartphones play in the lives of
Korean American youth as they explore their identities and navigate
between fitting into their host society and their Korean heritage.
Employing multiple methodologies, this book gives voice to the
youth's personal experiences, identity struggles, and creative
digital media practices. While similar in many aspects to other
American youth, they also differ greatly in the central roles that
their smartphones' use plays in maintaining their mastery of the
Korean language, connecting to Korean pop culture, and cultivating
their social networks with other co-ethnic peers and homeland
relatives and friends. The results of this study challenge
traditional assumptions about assimilation of second generation
immigrants into a host society and suggest that digital
technologies facilitate the process of segmented assimilation,
according to which ethnic identities continue to play a central
role in the identity of children of immigrants. KakaoTalk and
Facebook will be of great interest to scholars and educators of
media and youth and those exploring how digital media have changed
the nature of immigration processes in dramatic ways.
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