
Around the world, pop consumers are increasingly accessing popular products through social media. Online fan groups of Korean popular music (K-pop) in Asia have dynamically and transculturally circulated their product through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. In October 2010, Super Junior, a K-pop idol boy band, was ranked as the number one worldwide trending topic on Twitter—ranking even higher than a sensational news story about trapped Chilean miners. Regional fans in Indonesia in particular have been identified as the source of a spike in tweets on this topic. Such a phenomenon illustrates how social media–empowered online fandom enhances cultural flow and affects transcultural pop circulation dynamics. I examine these dynamics by means of the specific case study of K-pop fandom in Indonesia. By focusing on three specific aspects of new media circulation of K-pop in Indonesia—performing immediate transculturations, embodying K-pop, and building intimacies—I contextualize transnationally focused, newly emerging, and social media–deployed cultural circulation driven by online fan practices.
ethnographic research, 791, Facebook, K-pop, global cultural economy, Online youth culture, online youth culture, 2002 Cultural Studies, Twitter, Communication. Mass media, ResPubID22955, fan community, Fan community, Ethnographic research, P87-96, Global cultural economy, School of Communication and the Arts, cultural circulation, Cultural circulation
ethnographic research, 791, Facebook, K-pop, global cultural economy, Online youth culture, online youth culture, 2002 Cultural Studies, Twitter, Communication. Mass media, ResPubID22955, fan community, Fan community, Ethnographic research, P87-96, Global cultural economy, School of Communication and the Arts, cultural circulation, Cultural circulation
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