Yeran Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yeran Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yeran |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwangwoon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1465-3646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care
The popularisation of digital media technologies, from the Internet to diverse social media networks, has enabled ordinary citizens to become digital hyperlocal media participants in various localities. The current study examines digital hyperlocal media practices in Seoul from an ontological, ethical and political perspective of care. There is convergence in how digital hyperlocal media constitute a singular form of caring-with, particularly by …
“Finally, Me Time!”: Korean Middle-Aged Women’s Platform Practices
This work builds on the legacy of feminist reception studies by expanding the research focus from mass media to digital platforms, particularly YouTube, and from media use to the practices of consuming and engaging with media in the context of Korean middle-aged women. The research also integrates Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance with the digital media environment: It suggests that while Rosa may reject digital technology in his view of resonan…
Girl industries as a sexuality-assemblage in South Korea
This study conceptualizes the multiple and dynamic landscape of the Korean girl industries as a sexuality-assemblage. This assemblage comprises seemingly anachronistic elements: a long-standing patriarchal and misogynistic social structure; a youth-driven popular culture; a rapid global expansion of the entertainment and media industries; highly advanced digital media technology; and girls’ aspirations, desires, and frustrations. Through this len…
Difference-managing and difference-reducing community storytelling in urban neighborhoods: A communication infrastructure theory perspective
This study is to understand how urban residents experience and address difference through communicative actions in urban neighborhoods. The first purpose of this study was to test the scales of difference-managing community storytelling (DMCS) and difference-reducing community storytelling (DRCS) as two communicative actions for addressing differences in urban neighborhoods. The second was to identify socioeconomic and community engagement variab…
Communication and difference in urban neighborhoods: A communication infrastructure theory perspective
Based on communication infrastructure theory (CIT), this study developed and assessed communication concepts to understand the various ways in which residents in a metropolitan city experience and manage differences through their neighborhood communicative actions. We investigated three urban communities in Seoul with in-depth interviews (n = 30) and 12 focus group interview meetings (n = 120). We conceptualized two types of community storytellin…
Bio or Zoe: Dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during Covid-19
Heralding the self-brand of 'K-prevention' (nuanced with nationalistic pride in line with K-wave, K-pop, etc.), Korea has operated within two methods of articulation against COVID-19. One method involves granting the population relative freedom within the actual, physical realm, while the other method involves strengthening data surveillance within the virtual realm. This articulation of the actual and the virtual, and of freedom and surveillance…
Eating as a transgression: Multisensorial performativity in the carnal videos of mukbang (eating shows)
In analysing the issues of body and affect involved in the contemporary online culture including mukbang (eating shows), I propose the term ‘carnal videos’. Carnal videos are a constitutive part of the society of control in the digital environment. Through the operation of multisensorial significations in carnal videos, human networked affect is excessively expressed and experienced, along with its politico-ethical potentials of perseverance and …
Sell your loneliness
The personal broadcasting of Mukbang on the internet is vigorous among young people in their twenties. They are keen to participate in the cult rituals of broadcasting the self-image of eating in public. Most join the Mukbang culture by watching video clips while the more active and ambitious voluntarily produce and circulate Mukbang video clips themselves. The Korean history of Mukbang on television broadcasting and film started with the male fi…
Performative-we: Multisensory and collective performance of selected young Korean artists in London
The convergence between the artistic turn in ethnography and the ethnographic turn in art is particularly manifested in an artist’s life and work. In this article, the life and work of a selection of young Korean artists in London are analysed from an autoethnographic perspective. The term ‘performative-we’ is suggested for the multisensory and collective form of the performance of autoethnography, which is conducted for the pursuit and realisati…
Globalization of the privatized self-image: The reaction video and its attention economy on YouTube1
Globalization has shifted the ways in which people experience privatized self-images through media. YouTube, as its slogan of “Broadcast yourself” demonstrates, has become one of the most conspicuous platforms on which young people mutually produce, consume, and circulate their privatized self-images (Light et al. 2012). The present study focuses on “reaction videos” on You-Tube. Reaction videos are a vernacular form of visual production where pe…
Blogging as 'Recoding: A Case Study of the Discursive War over the Sinking of the Cheonan
This article explores how Korean bloggers, in contestation, participate in the social structure of communication and potentially transform it through their vernacular practices of decoding and recoding in the blogosphere. As a neo-liberal regime has been established, citizens practise discursive politics in a seemingly democratic and technologically advanced society that is actually a coercive-controlled communication system. Through the analysis…
Idol republic: The Global Emergence of Girl Industries and the Commercialization of Girl Bodies
This paper examines the strategic and systematic transformation of young femininity into cultural content as national resources in the contemporary girl industries in their global–local articulation. Three aspects of girl industries are discussed. Firstly, girl idols are de-humanized and become cultural content of girl industries and girl bodies are objectified as normative commodities under corporate government mentality. Next, girl bodies are r…
The emerging mediascape, same old theories? A case study of online news diffusion in Korea
This article aims to re-examine the main ideas of traditional diffusion study in the context of the internet. Two news stories, one initiated by an established news organization and one uploaded by an individual internet user, were selected for our case study. The study analyzed how a news story gets carried on through various websites of media organizations and individuals.We found that the original stories undergo transformations in terms of co…
Idol republic: The Global Emergence of Girl Industries and the Commercialization of Girl Bodies
This paper examines the strategic and systematic transformation of young femininity into cultural content as national resources in the contemporary girl industries in their global–local articulation. Three aspects of girl industries are discussed. Firstly, girl idols are de-humanized and become cultural content of girl industries and girl bodies are objectified as normative commodities under corporate government mentality. Next, girl bodies are r…
The emerging mediascape, same old theories? A case study of online news diffusion in Korea
This article aims to re-examine the main ideas of traditional diffusion study in the context of the internet. Two news stories, one initiated by an established news organization and one uploaded by an individual internet user, were selected for our case study. The study analyzed how a news story gets carried on through various websites of media organizations and individuals.We found that the original stories undergo transformations in terms of co…
Eating as a transgression: Multisensorial performativity in the carnal videos of mukbang (eating shows)
In analysing the issues of body and affect involved in the contemporary online culture including mukbang (eating shows), I propose the term ‘carnal videos’. Carnal videos are a constitutive part of the society of control in the digital environment. Through the operation of multisensorial significations in carnal videos, human networked affect is excessively expressed and experienced, along with its politico-ethical potentials of perseverance and …
Communication and difference in urban neighborhoods: A communication infrastructure theory perspective
Based on communication infrastructure theory (CIT), this study developed and assessed communication concepts to understand the various ways in which residents in a metropolitan city experience and manage differences through their neighborhood communicative actions. We investigated three urban communities in Seoul with in-depth interviews (n = 30) and 12 focus group interview meetings (n = 120). We conceptualized two types of community storytellin…
The emerging mediascape, same old theories? A case study of online news diffusion in Korea
This article aims to re-examine the main ideas of traditional diffusion study in the context of the internet. Two news stories, one initiated by an established news organization and one uploaded by an individual internet user, were selected for our case study. The study analyzed how a news story gets carried on through various websites of media organizations and individuals.We found that the original stories undergo transformations in terms of co…
Blogging as 'Recoding: A Case Study of the Discursive War over the Sinking of the Cheonan
This article explores how Korean bloggers, in contestation, participate in the social structure of communication and potentially transform it through their vernacular practices of decoding and recoding in the blogosphere. As a neo-liberal regime has been established, citizens practise discursive politics in a seemingly democratic and technologically advanced society that is actually a coercive-controlled communication system. Through the analysis…
Idol republic: The Global Emergence of Girl Industries and the Commercialization of Girl Bodies
This paper examines the strategic and systematic transformation of young femininity into cultural content as national resources in the contemporary girl industries in their global–local articulation. Three aspects of girl industries are discussed. Firstly, girl idols are de-humanized and become cultural content of girl industries and girl bodies are objectified as normative commodities under corporate government mentality. Next, girl bodies are r…
Globalization of the privatized self-image: The reaction video and its attention economy on YouTube1
Globalization has shifted the ways in which people experience privatized self-images through media. YouTube, as its slogan of “Broadcast yourself” demonstrates, has become one of the most conspicuous platforms on which young people mutually produce, consume, and circulate their privatized self-images (Light et al. 2012). The present study focuses on “reaction videos” on You-Tube. Reaction videos are a vernacular form of visual production where pe…
Performative-we: Multisensory and collective performance of selected young Korean artists in London
The convergence between the artistic turn in ethnography and the ethnographic turn in art is particularly manifested in an artist’s life and work. In this article, the life and work of a selection of young Korean artists in London are analysed from an autoethnographic perspective. The term ‘performative-we’ is suggested for the multisensory and collective form of the performance of autoethnography, which is conducted for the pursuit and realisati…
Sell your loneliness
The personal broadcasting of Mukbang on the internet is vigorous among young people in their twenties. They are keen to participate in the cult rituals of broadcasting the self-image of eating in public. Most join the Mukbang culture by watching video clips while the more active and ambitious voluntarily produce and circulate Mukbang video clips themselves. The Korean history of Mukbang on television broadcasting and film started with the male fi…
Eating as a transgression: Multisensorial performativity in the carnal videos of mukbang (eating shows)
In analysing the issues of body and affect involved in the contemporary online culture including mukbang (eating shows), I propose the term ‘carnal videos’. Carnal videos are a constitutive part of the society of control in the digital environment. Through the operation of multisensorial significations in carnal videos, human networked affect is excessively expressed and experienced, along with its politico-ethical potentials of perseverance and …
Bio or Zoe: Dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during Covid-19
Heralding the self-brand of 'K-prevention' (nuanced with nationalistic pride in line with K-wave, K-pop, etc.), Korea has operated within two methods of articulation against COVID-19. One method involves granting the population relative freedom within the actual, physical realm, while the other method involves strengthening data surveillance within the virtual realm. This articulation of the actual and the virtual, and of freedom and surveillance…
Communication and difference in urban neighborhoods: A communication infrastructure theory perspective
Based on communication infrastructure theory (CIT), this study developed and assessed communication concepts to understand the various ways in which residents in a metropolitan city experience and manage differences through their neighborhood communicative actions. We investigated three urban communities in Seoul with in-depth interviews (n = 30) and 12 focus group interview meetings (n = 120). We conceptualized two types of community storytellin…
Difference-managing and difference-reducing community storytelling in urban neighborhoods: A communication infrastructure theory perspective
This study is to understand how urban residents experience and address difference through communicative actions in urban neighborhoods. The first purpose of this study was to test the scales of difference-managing community storytelling (DMCS) and difference-reducing community storytelling (DRCS) as two communicative actions for addressing differences in urban neighborhoods. The second was to identify socioeconomic and community engagement variab…
“Doing Community”: Digital Hyperlocal Media as Care
The popularisation of digital media technologies, from the Internet to diverse social media networks, has enabled ordinary citizens to become digital hyperlocal media participants in various localities. The current study examines digital hyperlocal media practices in Seoul from an ontological, ethical and political perspective of care. There is convergence in how digital hyperlocal media constitute a singular form of caring-with, particularly by …
“Finally, Me Time!”: Korean Middle-Aged Women’s Platform Practices
This work builds on the legacy of feminist reception studies by expanding the research focus from mass media to digital platforms, particularly YouTube, and from media use to the practices of consuming and engaging with media in the context of Korean middle-aged women. The research also integrates Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance with the digital media environment: It suggests that while Rosa may reject digital technology in his view of resonan…
Girl industries as a sexuality-assemblage in South Korea
This study conceptualizes the multiple and dynamic landscape of the Korean girl industries as a sexuality-assemblage. This assemblage comprises seemingly anachronistic elements: a long-standing patriarchal and misogynistic social structure; a youth-driven popular culture; a rapid global expansion of the entertainment and media industries; highly advanced digital media technology; and girls’ aspirations, desires, and frustrations. Through this len…
Sociology (11 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works)