역사적 연구대상으로서의 한국인 입양인 공동체 -한국과 미국을 가로지르는 입양인 디지털 공동체의 출현- = Korean Adoptee Communities as a Subject of Historical Research: The Emergence of a Digital Community for Korean Adoptees Crossing South Korea and the U. S.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper examines the self-identification of Korean adoptees and the emergence of Korean adoptee communities on digital spaces. Digital sources produced by Korean adoptees and their organizations allow us to understand how they make sense of themselves as part of the Korean diaspora and a larger Asian American community. This paper refers to the recent works that relates Korean adoptees’ online activities and discourses to the emergence of the collective identify formation of Korean adoptees. It also analyzes the ways in which individual Korean adoptees express their ethnic and national belongings on their blogs. This paper reckons with the difficulties of doing a digital history with born-digital sources, which might disappear without notice, as well as with the possibility of doing a historical research in a new way.