Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

In International Academic Journals

• Changwook Kim and Wooyeol Shin (2025). Harassment of journalists and its aftermath: anti-press violence, psychological suffering and an internal chilling effect, Digital Journalism. 13(2). 232-248  https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2034027  [SSCI] Q1 [5year I.F=7.2 as of 2023]

• Changwook Kim and Sangkyu Lee (2023). Putting creative labor in its place in the shadow of the Korean wave, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(5). 603~617. [SSCI & AHCI] Q1 https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2087643 

• Changwook Kim and Sangkyu Lee (2021). Politicising digital labour through the politics of body, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 32(3). 382-398 (in Special Issue: New Aspects of Digital Labour)   https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10353046211037092  [SSCI] Q2

• Changwook Kim and Wooyeol Shin (2021). Unbound journalism: Interloper media and the emergence of fortune-telling journalism, International Journal of Communication, 15, 3519~3536. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/16550/3515  [SSCI]

• Wooyeol Shin, Changwook Kim and Jaewon Joo (2021). Hating journalism: Anti-press discourse and negative emotions toward journalism in Korea, Journalism, 22(5), 1239-1255 (in Special Issue: Emotional Turn in Journalism Studies). Corresponding Author https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884920985729 [SSCI] Q1 [I.F=4.432 as of 2020]

• Changwook Kim and Sangkyu Lee (2020). Fragmented industrial structure and fragmented resistance in Korea’s digital game industry. Global Media and China, 5:4, 354-371. (in Special Issue: Creative Labour in East Asia) https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420932518 [SCOPUS]  *lead article

• Changwook Kim (2019). Creative Labor as Moral and Ethical Subjects: The Case of Creative City Yokohama. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 20: 1, 39-55 https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2019.1576396 [SSCI & AHCI]

• Changwook Kim (2019). The political subjectivation of Korean creative workers: living and working as urban precariat in creative city Seoul. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25 :6, 701-713. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2017.1361942 [SSCI & AHCI] Q1

• Changwook Kim (2017). Locating “Creative City Policy” in East Asia: Neoliberalism, Developmental State and Assemblage of East Asian Cities. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(3): 312-330.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1048242 [SSCI & AHCI] Q1

• Changwook Kim (2014). Labor and the Limits of Seduction in Korea’s Creative Economy, Television & New Media, 15(6): 562-576. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476413485644 [SSCI & AHCI] Q1

 In Korean Academic Journals

• 김창욱, 이상규(2024), 문화산업 노동문제와 ESG 연계에 대한 탐색적 연구(Exploring the Connection between Labor Issues in the Cultural Industry and ESG), 문화정책논총 (The Journal of Cultural Policy), 38(3), 33-64 [KCI]

• 주재원, 김창욱(2023), 저인지 과학저널리즘과 관행적 뉴스담론: 포항지진과 지열 발전에 대한 보도를 중심으로(Hypocognitive Science Journalism and Conventional News Discourse: Focusing on the Reports of the Pohang Earthquake and Geothermal Energy), 한국언론학보(Korean Journal of Journalism and Communication Studies), 67(6), 256~297 [KCI], 교신저자

• 김창욱, 신우열 (2023), 젠더 기반 온라인 폭력으로서 여성기자 괴롭힘의 양상과 대처 전략(Gender-based online violence against Korean female journalists and their coping strategies), 미디어 젠더 & 문화(Media, Gender & Culture), 38(2), 83~138 [KCI]

• 신우열, 김창욱, 이상규 (2023), 뉴스 미디어 스타트업 생태계 현황 및 정책적 과제에 대한 탐색적 연구(Exploring the industrial ecosystem of the Korean news startups: challenges and policy support), 한국언론정보학보(Korean Journal of Communication & Information), 119, 7~53 [KCI]

• 유지윤, 김창욱, 이상규 (2020), 영상콘텐츠 산업 세제지원 제도 비교 연구 : 미국, 영국, 프랑스, 헝가리 사례를 중심으로(A Comparative Study of the Tax Incentive Policies in the Content Industry: Focusing on Cases in the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Hungary), 문화정책논총 (The Journal of Cultural Policy), 34(3), 5-34 [KCI]

• 김창욱, 이상규 (2019). 콘텐츠 산업 근로시간 규제 및 단체협약에 관한 주요국 사례검토 - 영국, 미국, 캐나다, 프랑스, 독일 (A comparative study of the working time regulations and collective agreements in the content industry: focusing on cases in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France and Germany). 노동법논총 (The Journal of Labor Law), 46, 177-235 [KCI]

Books

• Wooyeol Shin, Kyung-hee Kim & Changwook Kim (eds.) (2018). Digital Korea: Digital Technology and the Change of Social Life, Seoul: Hanul (written in English)

Book Chapters

• Changwook Kim (2018). Digitalization, Labor Flexibility and the Change of Cultural Production in the Korean Broadcasting Industry. Wooyeol Shin, Kyung-hee Kim & Changwook Kim (eds.). Digital Korea: Digital Technology and the Change of Social Life, Seoul: Hanul

 Translation

• 신우열 ,김창욱 역. (2023) 저널리즘 선언: 개혁이냐 혁명이냐(The Journalism Manifesto). 바비 젤리저, 파블로 J. 보즈코브스기, 크리스 W. 앤더슨 저. 오월의 봄. 

Policy Reports

• 뉴스 미디어 스타트업 현황 및 지원 방안 연구, 한국언론진흥재단, 2022 

• 여성기자 온라인 괴롭힘에 관한 저널리즘 사회학적 연구. 전국언론노동조합, 2022

• 콘텐츠 지식재산(IP)과 가치사슬 변화 연구(A Study on Content Intellectual Property and Changes of Value Chain). 한국문화관광연구원, (ISBN-978-89-6035-909-3 93300), 2021

• 방송영상콘텐츠 세제지원 확대방안 연구(A Research on the expansion plan of tax preference for the broadcasting and video contents industry). 한국문화관광연구원,(ISBN 978-89-6035-815-7 93300), 2020

• 신재생 에너지로서의 지열발전과 미디어 담론: 11.15 포항 지진 전후 언론 보도 비교 분석을 중심으로(Un-communicating science : media discourse on geothermal energy in Korea. Joint Research Group on 11.15 Earthquake generated by geothermal power), 11.15 지진 지열 발전 공동연구단, 포항시. 2019 

• 콘텐트산업 해외 법제도 동향 연구: 근로시간 조세 통계부문을 중심으로 (A study on trends of foreign legal system in the content industry: focused on working hours, taxes and statistics), 한국문화관광연구원, (ISBN 978-89-6035-740-2 93300), 2018

• 한국사회의 공론장에서 원자력 담론의 위상 연구 (Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Energy in South Korea), 미래사회에너지정책연구원, 경희대학교, 2017 

Miscellaneous

• 무뎌짐이 유일한 방법? 기자 개인의 문제 넘어 공론화해야, 신문과 방송,  한국언론진흥재단, 2024. 1월호

• Beyond Seoul: Culture and South Korea's Peripheral Cities, Cities of the World, Rowan & Littlefield, 2020. 

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Conference Papers        

• Journalism hate as a social affect, International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, USA, 2025, June 12-17

• Platformization or fragmentation? The impact of platformization on the webtoon industry and creative labor in Korea, Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production Conference, University of Amsterdam, 2022, June 1~2 (held online)

• Cost of animosity toward journalist: anti-press violence, psychological suffering and an internal chilling effect, Future of Journalism Conference 2021, Cardiff University, 2021, September 22~24 (held online).

• Putting “labor” in its place in the midst of the Korean wave, Theorizing the Korean Wave Conference, Simon Fraser University, 2021, April 9-10 (held online).

• Fragmented industrial structure and fragmented resistance in Korea’s digital game industry, Global Media and China and Global Digital Cultures present: Creative Labour in East Asia, Global Media and China Webinar, 2021, March 2nd (held online).

• Othering and becoming “labor”: constructing and resisting digital labor in Korea’s game industry, International Conference on Digital Labor, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 2019, October 25-27.

• Creative Labor as Moral and Ethical Subjects: The Case of Creative City Yokohama, International Communication Association (ICA), Prague, Czech Republic, 2018, May 24-28.

• The Political Subjectivation of Korean Creative workers: Living and Working as Urban Precariat in Creative City Seoul, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Leicester, UK. 2016, July 27-31.

• Locating “Creative City Policy” in East Asia: Neoliberalism, Developmental State and Assemblage of East Asian Cities, International Communication Association (ICA). San Juan. Puerto Rico. 2015, May 21-25

• Actor-Network Theory, Global Assemblage and Hyperbuilding: The Case of Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Park, Urban Affair Associations (UAA). Miami. U.S.A. 2015, April 8-11.

• Locating “Creative City Policy” in East Asia: Neoliberalism, Developmental State and Assemblage of East Asian Cities, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Hyderabad. India. 2014, July15-19.

• Rethinking the Audience: Jacques Ranciere’s Concept of the Emancipated Spectator, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Hyderabad. India. 2014, July15-19.

• Assembling Creative Cities in Seoul and Yokohama: Rebranding East Asian Urbanism, International Communication Association (ICA) Regional Conference. Shanghai, China. 2013, November 8-11

• Labor and the Limits of Seduction in Korea’s Creative Economy, International Communication Association (ICA), Boston, U.S.A. 20111, May 27-29.

• Changes in the Labor Process in the Korean Independent Broadcasting Production Sector: Toward Flexible Production and Its Effects, Japanese Association for Social Informatics (JASI) and Japanese Society for Socio-Informatics Studies (JSSI)’ 2008 Annual Joint Convention, Tokyo, Japan. 2008, September 13-14.

• Passion, Disappointment and Creativity: An Observation of Independent Production Workers in the Korean Broadcasting Industry(Co-authored with Myungkoo Kang and Seol Ki), International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Paris, France. 2007, July 24-28.

• Who Controls the Mobile Music Industry in South Korea?: The Collapse of the Record Industry and the Emergence of the Mobile Telecommunication Company in the South Korean Music Industry(Co-authored with Misook Baek), Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformation held by The University of Tokyo and Theory Culture & Society’s joint Convention. Tokyo, Japan. 2007, July16-17.

Invited Academic Workshops and Seminars

• Keynote Speaker, Exporting Culture, Exploiting Creatives? Global K-Culture Boom and the Problem of Creative Labor in Korean Cultural Industries, The Roundtable of Shaping the Future of Creative Careers in Japan, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, 2025, February 6

• Invited Presenter, Discussing the Epistemology of Investigative Journalism Between Vulnerability and Sustainability: A Case Study of Newstapa, Korea Center for Investigative Journalism, South Korea, 2025, January 23

• Invited Presenter, Online Violence and Women’s Participation in the Public Sphere, Korea Women’s Development Institute, South Korea, 2023, June 28

• Invited Presenter, Japan-Korea Humanities Study Group, Institute for Korean Studies, The George Washington University, USA, 2023, April 28.

• Invited Public Lecture, Title: The Shadow of The Korean Wave: Global K-Culture Boom and The Problem of Creative Labor in Korean Cultural Industries, College of William & Mary, USA, 2023, February 15

• Invited Presenter, Online Harassment Against Korea Female Journalists, National Union of Media Workers, Korea Press Center, South Korea, 2022, March 17

• Guest Lecturer, Graduate seminar on political economy of communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2021, November 22 (held online).

• Guest Speaker, Parasite: culture and inequality in a Korean yet global Film, Graduate seminar on Culture & Inequality, KU Leuven, Belgium. 2021, April 19. (held online).

• Invited Speaker, Labouring Creativity in the global context: Cultural Work in Asia and Beyond, The European Research Council, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 2019, May 16-18

• Selected Attendee, SSRC Korea Studies Dissertation Workshop, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, 2012, July 18-22.

• Selected Attendee, Jacques Ranciere: Politics and Media Aesthetics, Center for Global Media and Communication, Northwestern University, 2011, July 18-22.

• Selected Attendee, The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Workshop, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A, 2010, June 2-10.