Jeehyun Jenny Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeehyun Jenny Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeehyun Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9980-2836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pornographic algorithms: Algorithmically mediated pornification and South Korean women’s everyday resistance on social media
In this article, we examine Korean social media users’ anecdotes regarding social media algorithms, contextualized within the intricate dynamics of South Korea’s rape culture and the intensifying male pornographic fantasies for women’s flesh. Drawing on digital ethnography, we conceptualize their understandings of algorithms as pornographic algorithms—a set of imaginaries about how social media algorithms mediate the visibility of pornographic co…
Managing unwanted visibility: How transnational Korean women content creators experience and manage harmful algorithmic visibility on global social media
In the creator economy, algorithmic visibility is widely regarded as an ideal and crucial for content creators’ success. In this context, many studies have focused on social media content creators’ algorithmic labor to optimize and maintain algorithmic visibility. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transnational Korean women content creators whose visibility greatly depends on their ethnic, racial, and cultural identity, this study shifts the fo…
Living liminally: How Korean women cope with the rise of anti-Asian violence in the United States as racialized, gendered, and liminal beings
This study delves into the unique identity navigation of Korean women in the US who do not align themselves with the broader Asian American label as they make sense of and respond to targeted violence against Asian women. In-depth interviews reveal the interplay of racialization and gendering that these women contend with, as well as the nuanced strategies they adopt to align or disalign themselves from ascribed identities in the wake of such vio…
Vlog Worthy Surveillance: Investigating the Playful Surveillance Imaginaries of South Korea’s Quarantine Vlogs
Through a case study of South Korean citizens’ YouTube quarantine vlogs, this study examines the cultural narratives and practices surrounding pandemic surveillance, mainly the government-mandated quarantine monitored via the quarantine mobile app. Moving beyond the dichotomous understanding of surveillance as an act of control either to be resisted or accepted, we draw on the framework of playful surveillance and surveillance imaginaries and exa…
Who is sexually harassed? A python code haha”: Imaginaries of a post-violent AI world
Care-Less Data Pop Cultures: An Investigation of the Data Imaginaries and Data Cultures of the Pandemic
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies have critiqued the care-less legal and technical aspects of governments’ data disclosure of COVID-19 patients’ information. Yet, while there were many reported cases of public shaming of COVID-19 patients, not many studies have examined citizens’ usage and engagement with publicized data. In our study, we direct attention to citizens’ care-less engagement with COVID-19 patients’ data through the …
StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women's Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community
TikTok, one of the fastest growing entertainment platforms, is also a burgeoning space for hosting political expressions and movements. In this study, we examine how Asian/American women creatively occupy the #StopAsianHate hashtag on TikTok to counter anti-Asian racism and form pan-Asian solidarity. We analyze their participation in the #StopAsianHate hashtag as anti-racist space-making practices, which we define as the act of carving out discur…
The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden (original Korean title: “Ah-ga-ssi,” denoting lady in Korean) is a South Korean film based on Sarah Waters's novel The Fingersmith. Rather than the Victorian-era Britain setting of the novel, the film opts for Japanese-occupied Korea as the backdrop for a scam turned queer love story. It was released in South Korea in 2016 and selected for the Cannes Film Festival as well as the Palme d'Or. In 2016 alone, The Handmaiden was sold to…
Consuming Ali Abdul: Conditional acceptance in the context of Korean multiculturalism
This article examines the representation of Ali Abdul, the Pakistani character in the global Netflix hit Squid Game. While Ali has been celebrated for increasing South Asian representation in Korean media, we contextualize his portrayal through the lens of Korean multiculturalism. In doing so, we consider how the representation of Ali reflects the conditional acceptance of migrant men established by state-led Korean multicultural policies and pol…
Vital dataveillance: Investigating data in exchange for vitality through South Korea’s Covid-19 technogovernance
Through a case study of South Korea's tracking infrastructure, this study critically examines new surveillance technologies deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic. I consider the ways that these technologies were widely framed as beneficial and benign, contributing to their widespread acceptance, and normalizing their pervasive and intrusive tracking capacities. By employing cluster criticism analysis of the Korean health authorities' official rep…
StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women's Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community
TikTok, one of the fastest growing entertainment platforms, is also a burgeoning space for hosting political expressions and movements. In this study, we examine how Asian/American women creatively occupy the #StopAsianHate hashtag on TikTok to counter anti-Asian racism and form pan-Asian solidarity. We analyze their participation in the #StopAsianHate hashtag as anti-racist space-making practices, which we define as the act of carving out discur…
The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden (original Korean title: “Ah-ga-ssi,” denoting lady in Korean) is a South Korean film based on Sarah Waters's novel The Fingersmith. Rather than the Victorian-era Britain setting of the novel, the film opts for Japanese-occupied Korea as the backdrop for a scam turned queer love story. It was released in South Korea in 2016 and selected for the Cannes Film Festival as well as the Palme d'Or. In 2016 alone, The Handmaiden was sold to…
Consuming Ali Abdul: Conditional acceptance in the context of Korean multiculturalism
This article examines the representation of Ali Abdul, the Pakistani character in the global Netflix hit Squid Game. While Ali has been celebrated for increasing South Asian representation in Korean media, we contextualize his portrayal through the lens of Korean multiculturalism. In doing so, we consider how the representation of Ali reflects the conditional acceptance of migrant men established by state-led Korean multicultural policies and pol…
Vital dataveillance: Investigating data in exchange for vitality through South Korea’s Covid-19 technogovernance
Through a case study of South Korea's tracking infrastructure, this study critically examines new surveillance technologies deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic. I consider the ways that these technologies were widely framed as beneficial and benign, contributing to their widespread acceptance, and normalizing their pervasive and intrusive tracking capacities. By employing cluster criticism analysis of the Korean health authorities' official rep…
Care-Less Data Pop Cultures: An Investigation of the Data Imaginaries and Data Cultures of the Pandemic
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies have critiqued the care-less legal and technical aspects of governments’ data disclosure of COVID-19 patients’ information. Yet, while there were many reported cases of public shaming of COVID-19 patients, not many studies have examined citizens’ usage and engagement with publicized data. In our study, we direct attention to citizens’ care-less engagement with COVID-19 patients’ data through the …
StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American Women's Space-Making for Spearheading Counter-Narratives and Forming an Ad Hoc Asian Community
TikTok, one of the fastest growing entertainment platforms, is also a burgeoning space for hosting political expressions and movements. In this study, we examine how Asian/American women creatively occupy the #StopAsianHate hashtag on TikTok to counter anti-Asian racism and form pan-Asian solidarity. We analyze their participation in the #StopAsianHate hashtag as anti-racist space-making practices, which we define as the act of carving out discur…
Living liminally: How Korean women cope with the rise of anti-Asian violence in the United States as racialized, gendered, and liminal beings
This study delves into the unique identity navigation of Korean women in the US who do not align themselves with the broader Asian American label as they make sense of and respond to targeted violence against Asian women. In-depth interviews reveal the interplay of racialization and gendering that these women contend with, as well as the nuanced strategies they adopt to align or disalign themselves from ascribed identities in the wake of such vio…
Vlog Worthy Surveillance: Investigating the Playful Surveillance Imaginaries of South Korea’s Quarantine Vlogs
Through a case study of South Korean citizens’ YouTube quarantine vlogs, this study examines the cultural narratives and practices surrounding pandemic surveillance, mainly the government-mandated quarantine monitored via the quarantine mobile app. Moving beyond the dichotomous understanding of surveillance as an act of control either to be resisted or accepted, we draw on the framework of playful surveillance and surveillance imaginaries and exa…
Who is sexually harassed? A python code haha”: Imaginaries of a post-violent AI world
Managing unwanted visibility: How transnational Korean women content creators experience and manage harmful algorithmic visibility on global social media
In the creator economy, algorithmic visibility is widely regarded as an ideal and crucial for content creators’ success. In this context, many studies have focused on social media content creators’ algorithmic labor to optimize and maintain algorithmic visibility. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transnational Korean women content creators whose visibility greatly depends on their ethnic, racial, and cultural identity, this study shifts the fo…
Pornographic algorithms: Algorithmically mediated pornification and South Korean women’s everyday resistance on social media
In this article, we examine Korean social media users’ anecdotes regarding social media algorithms, contextualized within the intricate dynamics of South Korea’s rape culture and the intensifying male pornographic fantasies for women’s flesh. Drawing on digital ethnography, we conceptualize their understandings of algorithms as pornographic algorithms—a set of imaginaries about how social media algorithms mediate the visibility of pornographic co…
Political science (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)