Politics

The Mobility Era, Environmental Change and Humans

The Importance of Digital Media Literacy

  • The literacy debate
  • The importance of digital media literacy
  • The dangers of framing with numbers and reading media articles with polls
  • Political communication theory, including agenda setting, spiral of silence, priming effect and framing effect
  • The emergence and public use of new media and social change
  • Media exposure and selective attention in the era of mobility
  • Algorithms and filter bubbles of mobility media providers
  • Environmental change and the need for critical reading

Mobility and Ecology

Climate Change: Where Have Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter in Korea Gone?

Content

  • Ice Breaking
  • Understanding Mobility
  • Difference Between Weather and Climate
  • Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Effect, and Global Warming Issues
  • Confronting the “Temperature Limits for Human Survival”
  • Global Boiling and the Uninhabitable Earth Issues
  • 2016 “Paris Climate Agreement”
  • Climate Villain: South Korea
  • Climate Change Damages in the Ten Least Developed Countries and Issues for Future Generations
  • Clues for Problem-Solving Lie in Politics

Smart Media and Political Life in the Era of Mobility

About the Lecture

  1. Ice breaking politics! What comes to your mind?
  2. What is politics in the contemporary?
  3. Discussions about politics and how they can impact lives.
  4. Why does democracy matter? An overview of world history about everyone’s right to vote.
  5. Watch a video about suffrage movement in France, England, and Switzerland, followed by a discussion.
  6. The importance of digital media literacy.

Politics Changing My Life

Politics shapes our life rules, thereby influencing our quality of life. In the age of mobility, it is crucial to understand elections and political information through various media and to foster healthy political discourse. To critically read the news, one must actively question its factual accuracy, verify the primary sources, and independently compare and analyse mainstream media news.

How did the Forth Industrial Revolution Change Politics? (1): Innovation of Government and Political Party

Futurist Alvin Toffler predicted the emergence of the information revolution as the third wave, following the agricultural (the first wave) and industrial revolutions (the second wave) in his book The Third Wave. Since the 2000s, the third wave has rapidly spread to modern society. With the evolution of information and communication technology, humanity has now stepped into the 4.0 industry era and experienced overall changes across politics, economics, and culture based on mobility technology. This lecture focuses on the various changes brought by the mobility society, with a particular focus on emerging political phenomena. The debate between optimism and pessimism regarding “whether technological progress will strengthen or weaken democracy?” reflects the rapid pace of information and communication technology advancements and how these advancements lead to the emergence of the new political phenomena. To make it easier to understand the transformation in governments and political parties by the development of mobility technology, this lecture introduces domestic and international examples, such as the emergence of e-government and the enhancement of citizen services through the utilization of social networks.