최근 수 년 사이에 한국사회는 휴대전화라고 하는 새로운 커뮤니케이션 기술의 급속한 보급과 사용을 경험해 왔다. 휴대전화가 매우 빠른 속도로 채택된 이유는 경제적, 기술적, 정책적 측면 등에 걸쳐 포괄적으로 존재하는 것이겠지만, 한국사회가 지닌 사회문화적 특성 또한 이러한 현상에 상당한 영향을 주었을 것이라는 가정에서 이 연구는 출발하고 있다. 즉, 한국사회의 권위주의, 집단주의, 연고주의 등이 사람들로 하여금 신속한 연락의 필요성 및 끊임없는 연결에의 욕구를 가지도록 했을 것이라는 가정이다. 이러한 가정이 실증적으로 확인될 수 있는지를 알아보기 위하여 본 연구는 1999년에 행해진 소비자 조사에서 얻어진 자료를 이차분석하였다. 즉, “다소 위험이 따르더라도 새로운 방법으로 일을 해보려고 노력한다”, “나는 일과 후 동료들과 자주 어울린다”, “원만한 직장 생활을 위해서는 일과 후 술자리를 피할 수 없다”, “회사 일이 가족생활보다 중요하다” 등 네 가지 진술문에 대하여 휴대전화 사용자와 비사용자들 간에 통계적으로 유의미한 응답차가 있는지를 분석함으로써, 문화적 요인과 휴대폰 채택여부에 일정 관계가 있는지를 검증해 보았다. 두 집단은 각각의 진술에 대하여 유의미한 차이를 보임으로써 개인들의 사회문화적 성향이 휴대전화의 조기 채택에 영향을 주었을 것이라는 가정을 뒷받침하였다.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the social and cultural meaning of the new mobile phone technology. It is more a study of the cultural impact on the process of mobile technology diffusion than the technology's impact on culture and social behavior. The rapid diffusion of mobile telephone in the Korean society was undoubtedly possible by economic, technological, and industrial factors. Aside from these factors which have universal impact and implications, such as enhanced convenience and economic disposability, the rapid diffusion and adoption of mobile phone technology embodies cultural and social realities that make this new communication medium compatible with modern Korean life. As for the socio-cultural factors. I selected a few cultural characteristics, namely hierarchical authoritarianism, collectivism, clientelism, personalism, etc., drawn from established researches on Korean society and culture. Since mobile phone is a medium of relating and connecting people to people, I hypothesized that those who have stronger tendency of traditional cultural characteristics would adopt the technology more and faster than others. In developing the argument of this paper, descriptive frequencies and some statistical evidence from the SPSS analyses of annual consumer survey data were utilized. The data were collected by Cheil Communications, a leading advertising agency in Korea, from 3, 500 respondents in 1999. Responses to the questions on social behaviors of both mobile phone users and non-users were analysed. The main purpose of my analysis was to check if there were any significant differences between these two groups in each aspect of social behavior. Mobile phone users and non-users show significant differences in different aspects of social behavior. Users of mobile phones were more active in getting together with their colleagues, participated more in after-work drinking occasions, considered the life at work more important than private/family life, and tended to be more innovative. It is far from clear whether these people are more collective and hierarchical than others. It, is safe to say, however, that they certainly tend to be active in maintaining social relations at the cost of their private time. For the purpose of discussion, I would like to name them a collective group with collective orientation. Collective orientation is acquired over a rather long time period through various stages of socialization, which means this collective orientation preceded the action of adopting a mobile phone. What then is the reason why the collective group adopted mobile phones more readily? Considering the utility of maintaining social contacts, as described earlier, this study suggests that the desire to be available any time at any place caused them to buy the machine of nomadic life.
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1. 서론 2. 이동전화 확산의 일반적 요인들 3. 문화적 요인의 이론적 고찰 4. 실증적 자료의 분석과 검토 5. 결론 및 토의 참고문헌 Abstract