Hallyu and Strategic Interpretation of Malaysian Modernity among Young Malay Women

Syed, Azalanshah Md; Kwon, Seung‐Ho

doi:10.14431/aw.2019.09.35.3.1

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“…Islam, as the main source of her life values, might have been partially replaced by K-pop culture without her being aware of it. Ostensibly two disconnected domains, previous studies have shown how K-pop as an entertainment could became a channel for feminist discourses contesting one's conservative religious beliefs, such as how Muslim participants' in Syed and Kwon's (2019) study encouraged women to speak up. Similarly, after watching Korean dramas and music videos, fans in Yoon's (2019) study wished for safe streets for women to roam; pushing the boundary of traditionally domesticated roles of women.…”

Section: "It Has Nothing To Do With My Religious Life": K-pop As Irrelevant With One's Faithmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…In contrast, Syed and Kwon's (2019) study among Malaysian Muslim university students who were exchange students in Korea focused more intently on the religious subjectivity (as well as the gendered and transnational aspects), such as wearing hijab and maintaining halal diet while living in Korea as a symbol of honour as a Muslim. However, Syed and Kwon did not specifically examine their identities as fans because the participants narrated more about their experience living in Korea rather than as a fan.…”

Section: Literature Review: Key Studies On Muslim K-pop Fan Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Faith and fandom: young Indonesian Muslims negotiating K-pop and Islam

Mulya

2021

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Contemporary scholars in the intersecting field of popular culture and Islamic studies have argued for the importance of researching the ways Muslims engage with, make meaning of, and (re)produce different forms of popular culture. The current study continues these endeavours by examining a hitherto understudied form of popular culture in this field, namely, Korean popular culture. As previous studies on Islam and popular culture have drawn attention to, the focus of this study is on how this specific form of popular culture has been in/compatible with Islamic values, beliefs, and practices. Taking Indonesia as a context, the current study asked: What are the various ways Indonesian Muslim fans negotiate their identities as a Muslim and a K-pop fan? Drawing upon interview data with Indonesian Muslim K-pop fans and publicly available literature such as media reports, news, and websites, the findings exhibited at least four subject positions (available to be) taken up by Muslim K-pop fans, namely, (1) complete opposition, (2) partial opposition, (3) irrelevance, and (4) the interlacing of religious and fan subjectivity. The first two positions are predicated upon a belief that Islam and K-pop culture are in tensions, while the latter two consider there is no tension between one's identity as a Muslim and a K-pop fan. This article contributes to the existing knowledge in the field of Islam and popular culture by offering a nuanced discussion on various possible forms of Muslim K-pop fans' subjectivity.

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Section: "It Has Nothing To Do With My Religious Life": K-pop As Irrelevant With One's Faithmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Literature Review: Key Studies On Muslim K-pop Fan Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Faith and fandom: young Indonesian Muslims negotiating K-pop and Islam

Mulya

2021

Cont Islam

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“…Social media influencers are online opinion leaders who are well-connected to online and offline communities with similar values or interests (Liu et al, 2015). A social media influencer's follower number is essential in evaluating their impact as larger numbers represent higher trustworthiness among their audiences (A. R. Gómez, 2019;Md Syed & Kwon, 2019;Uzunoğlu & Kip, 2014). In addition, Campbell & Farrell (2020) proposed five criteria to evaluate social media influencers, follower numbers, perceived authenticity, accessibility, professionalism, and cultural capital.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Status Quo of All-for-one Tourism Development in Meishan City, China: Insights from Local Travel Influencers

Ding,

Md Syed,

Izyanie Shamshudeen

2023

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All-for-one tourism is a newly proposed concept that aims to promote the transformation of national tourism development in China. Few research studies have focused on the current industry practice of all-for-one tourism in China. A qualitative case study, grounded in an interpretivist paradigm, was conducted to investigate the status quo of all-for-one tourism development in Meishan City, China. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 local travel influencers based on opinion leadership theory. Thematic content analysis was utilized to analyze study data. Study findings revealed that implementing all-for-one tourism was limited by the lack of a clear tourism strategy, uncoordinated development, and low-quality public services. But efforts had been made to support all-for-one tourism in the public service system, tourism supply chain, tourism market order, destination brand strategy, and marketing effectiveness.

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“…The practice of consuming K-pop is a way for transnational fans to negotiate dominant social orders and identities (Han 2017;Yoon 2018). The transnational reception of Hallyu, of which K-pop is a part, is linked to women's empowerment (Jang et al 2021), a reconceptualization of modernity and modern female identity (Syed and Kwon 2019;Kim et al 2019), gender liberation and realization of "suppressed expression of ressentiment" (Oh 2017, p. 253) vis-à-vis female fans.…”

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Clutching on to Gendered Tropes? Framing of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics by Young Indian Writers of BTS Fanfiction

Chandi

Trehan

2022

Journalism and Media

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As more young girls write stories online thanks to the increased amount of publishing platforms, their fiction becomes a means to explore if they are offsetting prescribed practices of patriarchy in their gender constructions. Often, young women interrogate gender and recontextualize their experiences by writing fanfictions. In the age of transmedia storytelling, various online fan communities are rich data sources, as transnational female fans prolifically write fiction featuring icons from music and movies belonging to another country. We examined how young Indian girls frame gender roles and power dynamics in their fanfictions of BTS, the South Korean boyband, on Wattpad. To know if conventional gender frames are upheld or challenged in fanfiction stories revolving around non-Indian celebrities, we performed a textual analysis on forty-four BTS fanfictions. We found that in these fanfictions, existing gendered tropes used to depict masculinity and femininity are mostly normalized, with minor alterations reflecting a power imbalance typical in Indian patriarchal households. A subversion of tropes was found in framing men as emotionally expressive, arguably drawing from the soft masculinity projected in the home country of BTS–South Korea. Grounding these findings in self-categorization theory implores us to situate the construction of gendered identities within the socio-cultural conventions of fanfiction writers.

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Hallyu and Strategic Interpretation of Malaysian Modernity among Young Malay Women

Cited by 5 publications

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Faith and fandom: young Indonesian Muslims negotiating K-pop and Islam

Faith and fandom: young Indonesian Muslims negotiating K-pop and Islam

Exploring the Status Quo of All-for-one Tourism Development in Meishan City, China: Insights from Local Travel Influencers

Clutching on to Gendered Tropes? Framing of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics by Young Indian Writers of BTS Fanfiction

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