@article{ART003341657},
author={Huang Shuyi and PARK, Tchi Wan},
title={A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups},
journal={The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China},
issn={1738-0502},
year={2026},
number={80},
pages={473-503},
doi={10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017}
TY - JOUR
AU - Huang Shuyi
AU - PARK, Tchi Wan
TI - A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups
JO - The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 80
PB - Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
SP - 473
EP - 503
SN - 1738-0502
AB - This study focuses on the discourse of ‘Yeodanhak(女團學)’, a recently prevalent phenomenon within Chinese Hallyu fandom, and analyzes commentary-style video content targeting the K-pop girl group IVE to investigate the discursive legitimation strategies of guided cyber violence and its mechanisms of diffusion. Guided cyber violence refers to a discursive practice that, under the guise of “objective analysis,” directs audience judgment through discourse strategies to legitimize attacks against specific targets. Employing discursive legitimation theory as an analytical framework, this study codes and analyzes four legitimation strategies manifested in the video content: authorization, moral evaluation, rationalization, and mythopoesis. The analysis reveals that commentators deploy comparative editing, statistical data, and an expert-like tone to lend an appearance of objectivity to subjective attacks, layering legitimation strategies across four thematic domains: appearance, competence, ambition, and morality. Furthermore, drawing on interaction ritual chains theory, this study demonstrates how legitimized discourse generates collective effervescence through shared emotion in comment sections, forming a self-reinforcing chain of diffusion.
KW - Guided Cyber Violence;Discursive Legitimation;Interaction Ritual Chains;K-pop girl groups;IVE
DO - 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017
ER -
Huang Shuyi and PARK, Tchi Wan. (2026). A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 80, 473-503.
Huang Shuyi and PARK, Tchi Wan. 2026, "A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups", The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, no.80, pp.473-503. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017
Huang Shuyi, PARK, Tchi Wan "A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China 80 pp.473-503 (2026) : 473.
Huang Shuyi, PARK, Tchi Wan. A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups. 2026; 80 : 473-503. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017
Huang Shuyi and PARK, Tchi Wan. "A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.80(2026) : 473-503.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017
Huang Shuyi; PARK, Tchi Wan. A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 80, 473-503. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017
Huang Shuyi; PARK, Tchi Wan. A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China. 2026; 80 473-503. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017
Huang Shuyi, PARK, Tchi Wan. A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups. 2026; 80 : 473-503. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017
Huang Shuyi and PARK, Tchi Wan. "A Study on Discursive Legitimation Strategies of Guided Cyber Violence ─ Focusing on Chinese Online Videos Related to K-pop Girl Groups" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.80(2026) : 473-503.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.017
