Resources
The library is regularly updated with the latest resources. Some entries have been sourced from the BTS Syllabus project.
ARMY and BTS Culture
This book covers social media & online fan communities that serve as discursive spaces for ARMY, & observe in particular how ARMY forges BTS’ cultural status by compromising & negotiating with mass media that hold cultural power.
Jeeheng Lee
ARMY’s Magic Shop: Understanding the Collaborative Construction of Playful Places in Online Communities
Journal Articles
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022).
Ringland, K. E., Bhattacharya, A., Weatherwax, K., Eagle, T., & Wolf, C. T.
2022
Ambassadors of K-Culture: Korean Americans, Korea, and K-pop
K-Pop
BTS’ performance of their hit song “DNA” at the American Music Awards in 2017 in front of screaming fans marked the triumphant arrival of Korea as a producer of cool culture to mainstream American audiences.
Chun, J.M. & Suk, E.B.
2022
An Analysis of YouTube Comments on BTS Using Text Mining
Journal Articles
This study used text mining of 100,000 comments left on YouTube videos to analyze people's thoughts regarding BTS.
Ko Ho Kyoung
2020
An Analysis on BANGTANTV
UGC
Silmaro, B.
2020