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The role of technologies within contemporary urbanity and everyday life cannot be underestimated. In particular, the cell phone and the dominant Internet SNS (social networking site), Cyworld’s mini-hompy, have been a steady diet for Korean college students since the early 2000s. Both the cell phone and Internet cultures epitomize emerging socio-technologies in everyday Korean urban life; that is, the integral part of technologies in practicing and participating in everyday contemporary culture. Within the context of Seoul’s quick rise to post-industrial hypermodernity as the global center for broadband (OECD 2006), and cell phone “center,” the camera phone fits neatly into the convergence of everyday urbanity. For young people, the role of the camera as part of the cell phone culture is significant—it feeds into the daily routine of collecting and sharing images and moments of the everyday. In the case of Korea, the convergence between camera phone...

DOI: 10.1007/s12130-009-9083-y

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