Presentations

  • (With Chanmi Jeong). Gender, colonialism, and media spaces: Case of Bok Hye-sook in 1920s-1930s Korea.” International Communication Association Annual Conference. June 2024 (Accepted).
  • (With Gyeongmi Lee). Do algorithms know me netter than I know myself?” International Communication Association Annual Conference. June 2024 (Accepted).
  • (With Haesoo Lee). Vulnerability as ethico-political bind and a resource for empowerment: Analysis of YouTubers with disabilities.” International Communication Association Annual Conference. June 2024 (Accepted).
  • (With Sindoro Chelsea).  Negotiating popular culture and religious value conflicts between Korean drama and Muslim values: A case study of Indonesian and Turkish Muslim audiences. Korea Society for Journalism & Communication Studies Fall Conference. October 14, 2023.
  • (With Jun Hyung Lee). Celebrity populism and media politics in South Korea in the Moon Jae-in Era (2017-2022). Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. August 2023.
  • (With Jina Lee). Overwhelmingness and transcultural audience: K-Pop as a cultural text. Authenticity and Transcultural Communication Postconference, International Communication Association Annual Conference. Toronto, May 30, 2023.
  • (With Sena Keum). Enduring values in Russophone media: Analysis of coverage at Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, and IStories. Reimagining the Field of Media, War and Conflict in the Age of Information Disorder Preconference, International Communication Association Annual Conference. Toronto, May 25, 2023.
  • (With Saumava Mitra and Lindsay Palmer). Decolonizing conflict journalism: Why (and how) empirical research matters. Reimagining the Field of Media, War and Conflict in the Age of Information Disorder Preconference, International Communication Association Annual Conference. Toronto, May 25, 2023.
  • (With Jihyeon Ryu). How did he become a feminist? The subjectivization of young South Korean male feminists and the expansion of feminist subjects. Mediating Sex, Gender and Sexual Identity in the Gen Z Era Preconference, International Communication Association Annual Conference. Toronto, May 25, 2023.
  • News values, humanities and global journalism ethics. Korea Society for Journalism & Communication Studies Annual Conference. Jeju, May 19, 2023.
  • (With Yehyang Park). Critical discourse analysis of YouTube re-runs in children’s channels in Korea. Korea Society for Journalism & Communication Studies Annual Conference. Jeju, May 19, 2023. (Top Paper Award)
  • Journalism Ethics: Systematic Review of Literature. Korea Society for Journalism & Communication Studies Annual Conference. Jeju, May 19, 2023.
  • Interdisciplinary Korean studies and the ‘process’ side of new research. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Feb. 2023.
  • (With Ye Ju Ki). Of Macs and Nikes: Desire and authenticity in North Korea’s child YouTuber clips. International Association for Media and Communication Research. 2022.
  • (With Choi, J, and Choi, H.) “The ‘Kim Jong-un Effect’ and the Mainstreaming of North Korea Coverage in UK Media.” International Communication Association Annual Conference. International Communication Association Annual Conference. 2022.
  • (With Kavakli, B.) “Media Representations of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants: A Meta-Analysis of Research.” International Communication Association Annual Conference.
  • “New Ecology of Diaspora Journalism.” International Communication Association Annual Conference. May 2021.
  • “YouTube Journalism by North Korean Defectors.” Korea Society for Journalism & Communication Studies Annual Conference. October 2020.
  • “Getting It Wrong From Afar: Contextual Journalistic Errors in News from North Korea. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. August 2020. (KACA Top Paper)
  • “Why the Media Gets It Wrong When It Comes to North Korea: Case of ‘Dead’ North Koreans from 2012 to 2019.” University of Pennsylvania Korean Studies Colloquium, Feb. 6, 2020.
  • “Pyongyang Bureau, Virtual Foreign Bureau and Changes in News Ecology in North Korea.” University of North Korean Studies Colloquium, December 6, 2019.
  • “Data Journalism and International Reporting: Findings from Research.” Korea Data Journalism Conference, November 22, 2019.
  • “Issues in Journalism and North Korea.” U.S. Embassy, October 29, 2019.
  • “How Fake News on North Korea Get Produced and Circulated: Case of ‘Dead’ North Koreans from 2011 to 2018.” Korea Society for Journalism & Communication Studies Annual Conference. Seoul, October 2019.
  • “Virtual Foreign Bureaus and the New Ecology of Global News.” Yonsei University Communication Colloquium. October 2, 2019.
  • “Evolution of North Korea’s Defector Journalism,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. Washington DC. May 2019.
  • “Inconspicuous Gatekeepers: Sociology of Search Engine Optimization Work,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. Washington DC, May 2019.
  • “Making News About North Korea: Changes in Journalistic Approaches,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. Washington DC, May 2019.
  • “Global Cascade of Fake News: Case of Dead North Koreans,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. Washington DC, May 2019.
  • “Understanding Foreign Influence on Closed Societies,” North Korea Roundtable Series, US State Department. May 2019.
  • “Solutions to the Misinformation Crisis.” Online News Association Philadelphia. November 2018.
  • “Calling Pyongyang: Changes in Journalistic Approaches to North Korea Since 2000.” University of Michigan Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Lecture. Ann Arbor, November 2018.
  • “South Korea’s Watergate Moment: How a Media Coalition Brought Down the Park Geun-Hye Government.” Global Fusion Annual Conference. Charlottesville, October 2018.
  • “Defying Comfort, Not a Woman: ‘Peace Statue of a Girl,’ Witness to Wartime Sexual Violence, and the Creative Dissent of Counter-Monumentality.” World History Association Annual Conference. Milwaukee, June 2018. (With Nan Kim).
  • “One Foot in Prison and One Foot Out: Government-Appointed Fixers in North Korea,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. Prague, May 2018.
  • “Blue Collar Witnesses to Power: Culture of Photographers at the Associated Press,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. Prague, May 2018.
  • “South Korea’s Watergate Moment: How a Media Coalition Brought Down the Park Geun-hye Government.” Columbia University Communications Colloquium. New York, April 2018.
  • “South Korea’s Watergate Moment: How a Media Coalition Brought Down the Park Geun-hye Government.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference. Washington, DC., March 2018.
  • “Covering the Hermit Regime: A Comparison of North Korea Coverage at the AP and NK News,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. San Diego, May 2017. (Journalism Studies Division Top Poster Paper)
  • “Foreign News Startups, Global Advocacy Organizations, and Limits of Entrepreneurialism,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. San Diego, May 2017.
  • “Authoritarian Populism: Closed Media System in an Open World,” International Studies Association Annual Conference. Fukuoka, Japan, June 12, 2016.
  • Unveiling North Korea digitally, one picture at a time: “Big Data” and sourcing routines at NK News,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference. San Francisco, August 8, 2015. (KACA Top Student Paper)
  • “Verification when you’re not ‘on the ground’: Virtual foreign bureaus and a new hierarchy of journalistic sources,” International Association for Media and Communication Research Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada, July 13, 2015.
  • “Covering Tehran and Pyongyang from London: Networked Journalism of Two Virtual Bureaus,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 22, 2015.
  • “Funding International Reporting in the Digital Age,” International Studies Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA, Feb. 18, 2015.
  •  “Journalism in the Republic of Samsung from 1966 to 2013,” Complex Evolutions: Media and Democratization in Contemporary Asia. St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Sept. 5, 2014.
  • “Becoming Part of the Story: Coverage of Troy Davis by Democracy Now!,” The Cultural Politics of Protest – Confronting Social Justice and Inequality in Communications Studies. International Communication Association Preconference. Seattle, WA, May 22, 2014.
  • “The Uncensored War Revisited: AP Photographers During the Vietnam War,” Joint Journalism and History Conference. New York City, March 8, 2014.
  • “The Marginal Majority: Foreign Journalistic Labor at the Associated Press,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. London, May 21, 2013.
  • “An Alternative Model of Journalism: Hybrid Public-Commercial TV of South Korea and Chile,” Media Sociology Forum, Columbia University, March 2, 2012.