Abstract
In this paper we describe an (auto-) ethnographic study of some career women’s viewing practices of Korean TV dramas in Hong Kong. Destabilizing the boundary between the researched and the researcher, we research both ourselves and our friends’ viewing practices. Using diaries, participant observation and interviews, and drawing on dialogues, e-mail and telephone exchanges both among ourselves and with our friends about Korean TV dramas, we attempt to understand women’s viewing pleasure and the ways in which Korean TV dramas might provide working women with resources to negotiate real life tensions between deep-rooted, Confucianist sociocultural values and new, modern working conditions in a rapidly Westernizing, globalizing Hong Kong. Implications for women’s TV drama viewing practices and the (re)production and
negotiation of women’s identities are discussed.
negotiation of women’s identities are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 121-174 |
| Journal | Korean Broadcasting Institute |
| Volume | 11 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2004 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
Research Keywords
- feminist media studies
- Television and women's culture
- women's identities
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