This study examines common themes identified in discourses about digital technology–driven responses to COVID‐19 in South Korea. By examining how digital technology is represented and thematised in policy and news discourses, the study explores how particular modes of society and societal order are circulated and particular visions of the postpandemic society emerge. By employing the notion of social imaginary as a collective vision and practice of a desirable future, this research contributes to expanding the scope of policy studies that tend to be limited to rational decision‐making processes. It explores the role of the government that extends institutional forces to disseminate particular visions of the postpandemic society while addressing the media's response to the government‐circulated dominant social imaginary.

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COVID-19 大流行期间韩国数字技术的社会想象

本研究探讨了韩国数字技术驱动的 COVID-19 应对措施的讨论中确定的常见主题。通过研究数字技术在政策和新闻话语中的表现和主题，该研究探讨了特定的社会模式和社会秩序是如何传播的以及大流行后社会的特定愿景是如何出现的。通过将社会想象的概念作为对美好未来的集体愿景和实践，这项研究有助于扩大往往局限于理性决策过程的政策研究的范围。它探讨了政府的作用，即扩展制度力量来传播大流行后社会的特定愿景，同时解决媒体对政府传播的主导社会想象的反应。