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Jinsook Kim
Assistant Professor of Film and Media
Emory University
Education/Degree:
1 Media Studies Media Studies (University of Texas at Austin)
About
Jinsook Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University, where she is also associated faculty with the East Asian Studies program. Her research interests include digital media, online hate culture, and social and political activism in the context of contemporary South Korea. Her work on digital media culture has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Communication, Culture & Critique, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Current Work
Jinsook Kim’s book manuscript, tentatively titled Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Activism in South Korea, approaches digital media as a key battlefield in the intense cultural and political confrontations between feminists and misogynists over the past decade. Through textual, discursive, and institutional analyses of digital media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, as well as interviews with feminist activists, this book examines how new modes of feminist activism have contested the widespread misogyny in South Korea, thereby increasing public interest in gender issues and extending the reach of feminism. With a theoretical basis in feminist, global, and digital media studies, this book develops the concept of “sticky activism” by considering emotions and affect, media affordances, participants’ engagement, and social and cultural transformation.
Research Area Keyword(s)
feminist media studies, digital media studies, global media studies