Jinsook Kim / Emory University

Jinsook Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University. Her research interests include digital media, online hate culture, and social and political activism in the context of contemporary South Korea. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Feminist Media Studies, Television and New Media, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Media, Culture & Society. She also authored chapters in the edited collections Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment and Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea. She is the recipient of the 2024 Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship from the International Communication Association’s Feminist Scholarship Division. She is currently writing a book titled Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Activism in South Korea. This project has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, among others.