A Study on the Discursive Differences between Generations: With Focus on Social Media Communication

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· 발행기관 : 한국커뮤니케이션학회
· 수록지 정보 : 커뮤니케이션학 연구 / 31권 / 4호 / 35 ~ 48페이지
· 저자명 : 이승재

초록

Language is social in nature and communication reflects the social phenomena. Social media as a platform for communication has become a norm even after the pandemic. This study, based on the social properties of language, researched the discursive differences of the social media communication between generations. Of those various social media, KakaoTalk, the most common communication channel in Korea was the research object, where the private conversation was taken place. For the data collection, two communities – one for the group of 20s and the otherfor 60s - were selected using self-retrospective and ethnolingistic approach and the discourses on the chatting from May to July 2023 were analyzed by the length of discourse, the frequency of participation in the discourse, the frequency of emoticons used in the discourse. The result of this study shows differences in the communicative behavior between two groups; the community of 20s are more frequent participation in the chatting and more frequent use of emoticons than that of 60s and prefers the shorter discourse. Consequently, this study shows the generation gap regarding the social media communication between the digital natives of 20s who were grown up with digitals and the digital immigrants of 60s who adapt to digital culture.

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