Young American Immigrant Children’s Interpretations of Popular Culture by Lena Lee
The article I chose for this week focused on the influence pop culture has on youths, specifically honing in on the perspectives of young immigrant Korean girls. This paper critiqued the lack of research that has been done on how young people are affected by what American pop culture portrays in the media and how its messages need to be taken more seriously. It also claims that children are not just absorbing the content which comes from “pre-existing knowledge systems” but act as contributors who form their own ideas on society (Lee, 2009). The interview study was done with 10 participants whose parents were all Korean citizens and who were born and raised in South Korea. Two of them being Korean-Americans and eight who were recent immigrants. Throughout this article, Lee also seeks how Korean immigrant children navigate the sociopolitical, social, and cultural aspects of life when being raised in two different cultures.
I found this article to be somewhat helpful towards my research. Unlike this paper, I will be focusing on Chinese females who were adopted and grew up immersed in American culture. Immigrants who grow up in the family they were born into and finding identity in America is very different than someone whose adopted into an American household. Many adoptees must experience being raised in a family without a similar culture of their own and finding their own identity can be complicated. This is a different dynamic of split identity and will be a key point in understanding why it’s so important to have representation in the media. I also chose this article because it focused on children. Although my potential interviewees will be grown, many experiences trying to find your identity can happen when you’re at a young age.
For this project, so far I have been watching some of the training module videos on LinkedIn Learning. I finished 2 of the videos and the one I found most helpful was the Introduction to Video Storytelling. I plan on watching another one this week as well as checking out the equipment office and grabbing a camera for long-term check out. I decided it would be more helpful to get myself familiarized with how the camera works sooner rather than later.
Lee, L. (2009). Young American immigrant children’s interpretations of popular culture: A case study of Korean girls’ perspectives on royalty in disney films. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 7(2), 200–215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X08098357
Introduction to Video Storytelling. LinkedIn Learning. Retrieved September 19, 2021, from https://www.linkedin.com/learning/introduction-to-documentary-video-storytelling/what-is-a-documentary?u=2206009
