In early October Assistant Professor of Marketing, Soonkwan Hong, presented two research papers at the Association for Consumer Research conference held in Vancouver, Canada.
The presentations were titled, “Mythologized Glocalization of Popular Culture: A Postcolonial Perspective,” and “Cruising the Unadulterated Terrain of Consumption: Rural Snowmobilers’ Interpellation through Collective Simplicity.”
More about the Presentations
Mythologized Glocalization of Popular Culture: A Postcolonial Perspective
Soonkwan Hong, Michigan Technological University, USA
Chang-Ho Kim, Nam-Seoul University, South Korea
This netnographic research reveals that the glocalization process of Korean popular culture cannot be reduced to a uni-discursive thesis that immortalizes the themes of cultural imperialism. Globalization of popular culture necessitates hybridity that uses the same traditional ingredients, but transforms into a new taste based on a new cultural recipe.
Cruising the Unadulterated Terrain of Consumption: Rural Snowmobilers’ Interpellation through Collective Simplicity
The reflexive interpellation process unveiled by rural snowmobilers helps explicate how poor rural consumers maintain ontological security. The received view of inherited and institutionalized cultural and symbolic capital is inapplicable to the context where upward sociocultural mobility is collectively achieved through agentic appropriation of highly stylized and politicized consumer movements.