A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Kyong Yoon explores the platformization of K-Pop fandoms and how fans continue to play a significant role in the contemporary media ecosystem.
Read moreHyun Jung Stephany Noh discusses immersive experiences and consumer goods that combine Korean Wave media with cultural heritage.
Read moreIn the early 2000’s in Argentina, documentary filmmakers were able to reflect on the horrors of the 1970’s military dictatorship, blending politics and poetics in an innovative new form.
Dal Yong Jin discusses the concept of transnational proximity while observing the ongoing success of the Golden Globe-winning KPop Demon Hunters.
Read moreDr. Ji-Hyun Ahn examines the rise of anti-Hallyu sentiment, and considers how these discourses implicate colonial logics. Alternately, she presents a different approach, analytically re-framing this backlash as a “post-Hallyu disjuncture” in a move for greater nuance.
Read moreGolden Owens discusses Lana, the virtual assistant on the reality television show Too Hot To Handle, and how it relates to broader narratives about robotic technologies, artificial intelligence, and surveillance.
Read moreGil Soo Han traces the transformation of South Korean nationalism and its relationship with specific sectors of Korean Protestantism. A framework of “calculated nationalism” is used as an analytical tool to examine the grassroots agency of the religious far-right in the country.
Read moreWhat happens when an electronic sound becomes legible as a voice?
Read moreThis article examines VCU’s East Marshall Street Well Project, uncovering racist histories of anatomical dissection and tracing current community-led efforts toward ethical research, oral history, memorialisation, and overdue reburial of the stolen remains.
Read moreKpop Demon Hunters exhibits how “K-pop aesthetics” have become a shared cultural resource, complicating discourses surrounding ownership, global-local identity, and the future of the Korean Wave in the global, digital streaming era.
Read moreWright analyzes Dr. Bailey’s heart attack in Grey’s Anatomy, revealing how racial and gender stereotypes shape Black women’s medical treatment and self-advocacy within biased healthcare systems.
Read moreDr. David Oh investigates how Kpop Demon Hunters has managed to maintain its popular status despite the film’s counterhegemonic tendencies.
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