Research
New channels of communication, afforded by the global expansion of digital platforms, are changing the ways people access news, engage in politics, and create social connections.
Exploring how digital media technology impacts and shapes our civic and social life is the general goal of my research.
How do digital media influence how people access news information? How do people engage in political actions online? How do digital media (re)structure people's social relationships? What are the social and cultural consequences of automation technology? These are the questions I explore in my research.
Digital technology, Politics, and Democracy
Different stakes, different struggles, and different practices to survive: News organizations and the spectrum of platform dependency. New Media & Society
Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists. Digital Journalism
Tactical trolling: Understanding journalist trolling as a new online resistance in South Korea. Communication, Culture, & Critique
Digital media platforms and Social Relations
Dynamics between agents in the new Webtoon ecosystem in Korea: Responses to waves of transmedia and transnationalism. International Journal of Communication
Feeling the community: How AAPI members respond to racism through informal networks based on the case study of Urbana-Champaign campustown. 105th Annual Association for Education in Journalism & Mass communication (AEJMC) Conference.
(In progress) All-in-one apps: WeChat and KakaoTalk as cultural infrastructures in the making of transnational identity.