Research Activities
In this page, you can see my research activities according to different themes.
In this page, you can see my research activities according to different themes.
[Peer-Reviewed Paper]
Youjung Shin, “For or Against the Molecularization of Brain Science?: Cybernetics, Interdisciplinarity, and the Unprogrammed Beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT,” History of the Human Sciences vol. 36, no. 1 (2023): 103-130.
• 2023 Best Paper Award of The Korean History of Science Society
Youjung Shin, “The Transnational Move of Interdisciplinarity: The Beginning of Neuroscience(s) in South Korea, 1970-90s” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences vol. 31, no. 4 (2022): 466-489.
• 2023 Runner-Up for the Outstanding Article in the History of the Neurosciences
Youjung Shin, “Policy Entrepreneur in the Information Society: Shaping the Interdisciplinarity of Brain Research in Korea,” Minerva 56, no. 2 (2018): 231-257.
[Research Paper]
Youjung Shin, “Convergence Research and Boundary Object: Sociotechnical Imaginaries on Convergence Research in South Korea,” Convergence Research Review 12, no. 2 (2016): 26-53.
[Selected Presentations]
“Of Ginseng and Chips: An Interdisciplinary Gathering for the Brain in South Korea, 1970-1990,” International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea, August, 2019.
“From Big Theory to Big Data: The Formation of Neuroscience as a Discipline in the U.S., 1960-1990,” History of Science Society, Seattle, U.S., November, 2018 (co-organized a panel, “Embracing the Electronic Brain: Cold War Entanglement of Organisms, Minds, and Computers,” with Michael F. McGovern).
“Politics over the Boundary Object: Electrical Brain and the Information Society in Korea,” The Society for New Emerging Science and Technology, Bergen, Norway, October, 2016.
“Making Convergence Research: Brain Research Policy in Comparative Perspective,” Asia-Pacific STS Network Conference, Kaoshuing, Taiwan, October, 2015.
[Peer-Reviewed Paper]
Youjung Shin, “The ‘Spring’ of Artificial Intelligence in its Global ‘Winter’: Korean Language and AI researchers in the late 1980s,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 41, no. 4 (2019): 71-82.
[Book Review]
Youjung Shin, Review of Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study, by Sabina Leonelli, Journal of the History of Biology 51, no. 4 (2018): 887-889 (in English).
[Selected Presentations]
“‘Human-Centered’ Science?: The Rise and Fall of Soft Science in South Korea,” A.Human Seminar, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, June, 2020 [in Korean].
“The Ramifications of the HPS in Shaping Cognitive Science: Jung-Mo Lee and “Soft Science” in South Korea,” D. Kim Foundation Workshop, Boston, U.S., January, 2020.
“The Brain and the Computer: The Meaning of Hangul for AI researchers in South Korea in the late 1980s,” Society for History of Technology, Philadelphia, U.S., October, 2017.
The Award of the Best Early Career Scholar Panel at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting
“The Meaning of ‘Korean’ Language in the Development of Artificial Intelligence in South Korea: Artificial Intelligence Research Associate in the 1980s,” Korean Association of Science and Technology Studies, Busan, Korea, May, 2017.
[Peer-Reviewed Paper]
Youjung Shin, “Screening as Governmental Technology: The Nationwide Collection of Mental Health Data on Students in South Korea,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences vol 78, no.3 (2023): 304-327, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad015.
Youjung Shin and Claire Junga Kim, “The Government Should Play a Role Greater Than That of Construction Supervisor in the National Bio-Big Data Infrastructure,” Journal of Korean Medical Sciences vol 39, no. 36 (2024): e262, https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2024.39.e262 (SCIE)
[Book-Review]
Youjung Shin, Review of Family and Government: How Population Became a Political Problem 가족과 통치: 인구는 어떻게 정치의 문제가 되었나, by Jo Eunjoo 조은주, The Korean Journal for the History of Science 41, no. 2 (2019): 235-238 (in English).
[Selected Presentations]
“Linking the Brain: Computerization, Biomedicalization, and Globalization in Neuroscience, 1960-2000,” MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society Colloquium, Cambridge, U.S., February, 2020.
“Irresponsible Translation: The Mass Screening of Students’ Mental Health in South Korea,” International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July, 2017 (with Buhm Soon Park).
“Drawing the Rosy Future: The Promises from Brain Science and Technology,” Graduate Student Workshop for the History and Philosophy of Science, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonbuk, Republic of Korea, January, 2015.
[Peer-Reviewed Paper]
Youjung Shin, “Big Science in a Newly Industrialized Country (NIC): OECD, Megascience, and South Korea in the 1990s” (work in progress).
Youjung Shin, Taemin Woo, Buhm Soon Park, “Importing Scientific Institution: The Politics of Memory for Basic Science and the Formation of Institutional Identity,” The Korean Journal for the History of Science 42, no. 1 (2020): 275-302 (in Korean).
Taemin Woo, Youjung Shin, Buhm Soon Park, “Asilomar Conferences for Artificial Intelligence and the Accumulation of Technological Determinism,” Journal of Science and Technology Studies vol 24, no. 3 (2024): 4-42 (in Korean).
[Selected Presentations]
“From Big Theory to Big Data: The Formation of Brain Research Across the Pacific, 1960-1990,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S., April, 2018.
“From Big Theory to Big Data: The Two Different Ideas of Making ‘Neurosciences’ in the U.S., 1960-1990,” Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S., April 2018.
“Brain at Stake: The Establishment of 'Neurosciences' in the early 1960s in the context of cognitivism and big-ism,” American Historical Association, Washington D.C., U.S., January, 2018.
“A Political Life of ‘Galaxy City’: Science Policy, Urban Planning, and Two Presidential Elections in Korea,” Society for History of Technology, Singapore, June, 2016 (with Buhm Soon Park and Taemin Woo).
[Peer-Reviewed Paper]
Youjung Shin, “Making the Brain for Daeduk Science Town: The Transformation of KAIST into an University in Daeduk,” Journal of Science and Technology Studies 21, no. 3 (2021): 4-37 (in Korean).
Youjung Shin, Taemin Woo, Buhm Soon Park, “Importing Scientific Institution: The Politics of Memory for Basic Science and the Formation of Institutional Identity,” The Korean Journal for the History of Science 42, no. 1 (2020): 275-302 (in Korean).
Youjung Shin and Hanbyul Jeong, “Transition or Tradition: Imagining National R&D Innovation in South Korea,” Novation 1, no. 1 (2019): 106-134.
[Book Review]
Youjung Shin, Review of Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy, by Alex Sayf Cummings, Journal of Science and Technology Studies 21, no. 1 (2021): 205-211 (in Korean).
[Selected Presentations]
“Daedeok Science Town and KAIST,”2021 Workshop for the History of Modern Science in Korea, February, 2021.
“Black-Boxed Innovation: Analysis on the 2015 R&D Innovation Plan,” Korean Association for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea, December, 2015 (with Hanbyul Jeong).
Excellence Award at the 5th Korea Association for Policy Studies (KAPS) –Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA) Policy Research Presentation Competition