Soomin Seo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4466537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Soomin Seo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Soomin |
| FAMILY NAME | Seo |
| SIGNATURE | SEO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8095-6958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Am I Doing Here? Self-Reflexivity in Cross-Border Journalism Research
In journalism research conducted in the Global South, power relationships between the researcher and the researched mirror the uneven power structures between the Western journalists and their news subjects or their non-Western colleagues working alongside them. But so far, the figure of the journalism researcher in such contexts has not been problematized to any great extent in journalism scholarship. Moreover, the journalism researcher working …
Why the media gets it wrong when it comes to North Korea: Cases of ‘dead’ North Koreans in the Kim Jong-un era
Journalists are more capable than ever of covering places they cannot visit in person. The same news environment that makes such reporting possible, however, can also facilitate a global cascade of journalistic errors. This article zooms in on the opportunities provided by a unique cluster of journalistic errors to understand factors influencing journalistic errors in international stories. It focuses on erroneous death reports of seven prominent…
The ‘Kim Jong-un Effect’ and the mainstreaming of North Korea coverage in UK Media
This article uses qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse the entire corpus of news articles published about North Korea by six major UK national newspapers from 2000 to 2020. It offers insights on how North Korea evolved from a relatively obscure subject to a mainstay in the world news section, particularly for the tabloids. Coverage grew exponentially, led by not only stories about nuclear development and missile programmes, but also by…
Media representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants: A meta-analysis of research
Media representation of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants has emerged as an important area of research. This study offers a systematic overview of the objects and key characteristics of the field. We analyse 119 scholarly articles collected from the EBSCO database. Our results show that research activity has increased dramatically since 2010. However, this increase was not equally distributed; countries that have received the largest numbe…
We see more because we are not there’: Sourcing norms and routines in covering Iran and North Korea
Based on interviews and newsroom visits, this study explores an epistemological hierarchy of sources and sourcing channels that differs substantially from the norms of more traditional forms of journalism. Two niche outlets covering North Korea and Iran are chosen for analysis. Because these countries are notoriously hostile to foreign correspondents, trustworthy news is often difficult to come by. Journalists working for these new outlets prefer…
South Korea’s Watergate Moment: How a Media Coalition Brought Down the Park Geun-hye Government
South Korea had a Watergate moment in 2016, when a corruption scandal led to an impeachment of the president. Two media outlets in particular, the progressive newspaper Hankyoreh and JTBC, a TV station with roots in Samsung, first broke and then sensationalized the scandal that motivated the candlelight protests. Using textual analysis and oral history interviews, this article critically examines news institutions and journalistic culture to deri…
Blue-Collar Witnesses to Power: The Culture of Photographers at the Associated Press
Using 55 oral history interviews from the corporate archives, this article illuminates the group culture and identity of photographers at the Associated Press from the World War II through the Vietnam War era. The nature of the news agency made AP photographers an important interpretive community, with front-row access to news scenes like the two at the heart of this study: Vietnam and the White House. The photojournalists stood out for their blu…
One Foot in Prison and One Foot Out: State-Appointed Local Journalistic Labor in North Korea
Foreign correspondents are often required to work with government-appointed fixers or minders in authoritarian regimes. This article is a case study of these frequently overlooked journalistic workers in North Korea and the structure of surveillance and social control they work within. Interviews with foreign journalists show that many of these locals are much more than mere government spies. The competing desires Pyongyang has for its fixer-mind…
Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage
The humanitarian crisis in Syria and the plight of the people fleeing the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa are unfolding in real time before the global news audience. Some stories and pictures—such as Alan Kurdi's drowning off the Turkish coast—were more influential than others, but most believe media can do much more. With so many scholars preoccupied with documenting the changes in media production, it is easy to lose sight of the social dyna…
Marginal Majority at The Postcolonial News Agency: Foreign journalistic hires at the Associated Press
Using 74 archival interviews with former and current employees, this paper explores the sociology of journalistic hires in foreign bureaus at the Associated Press. It finds that locally hired staff play crucial roles in foreign bureaus by providing the often-inexperienced home staffers with local context and linguistic help. The locals thus become an integral part of the Associated Press’ foreign coverage, which became more in-depth and contextua…
Marginal Majority at The Postcolonial News Agency: Foreign journalistic hires at the Associated Press
Using 74 archival interviews with former and current employees, this paper explores the sociology of journalistic hires in foreign bureaus at the Associated Press. It finds that locally hired staff play crucial roles in foreign bureaus by providing the often-inexperienced home staffers with local context and linguistic help. The locals thus become an integral part of the Associated Press’ foreign coverage, which became more in-depth and contextua…
We see more because we are not there’: Sourcing norms and routines in covering Iran and North Korea
Based on interviews and newsroom visits, this study explores an epistemological hierarchy of sources and sourcing channels that differs substantially from the norms of more traditional forms of journalism. Two niche outlets covering North Korea and Iran are chosen for analysis. Because these countries are notoriously hostile to foreign correspondents, trustworthy news is often difficult to come by. Journalists working for these new outlets prefer…
What Am I Doing Here? Self-Reflexivity in Cross-Border Journalism Research
In journalism research conducted in the Global South, power relationships between the researcher and the researched mirror the uneven power structures between the Western journalists and their news subjects or their non-Western colleagues working alongside them. But so far, the figure of the journalism researcher in such contexts has not been problematized to any great extent in journalism scholarship. Moreover, the journalism researcher working …
Media representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants: A meta-analysis of research
Media representation of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants has emerged as an important area of research. This study offers a systematic overview of the objects and key characteristics of the field. We analyse 119 scholarly articles collected from the EBSCO database. Our results show that research activity has increased dramatically since 2010. However, this increase was not equally distributed; countries that have received the largest numbe…
Blue-Collar Witnesses to Power: The Culture of Photographers at the Associated Press
Using 55 oral history interviews from the corporate archives, this article illuminates the group culture and identity of photographers at the Associated Press from the World War II through the Vietnam War era. The nature of the news agency made AP photographers an important interpretive community, with front-row access to news scenes like the two at the heart of this study: Vietnam and the White House. The photojournalists stood out for their blu…
One Foot in Prison and One Foot Out: State-Appointed Local Journalistic Labor in North Korea
Foreign correspondents are often required to work with government-appointed fixers or minders in authoritarian regimes. This article is a case study of these frequently overlooked journalistic workers in North Korea and the structure of surveillance and social control they work within. Interviews with foreign journalists show that many of these locals are much more than mere government spies. The competing desires Pyongyang has for its fixer-mind…
Marginal Majority at The Postcolonial News Agency: Foreign journalistic hires at the Associated Press
Using 74 archival interviews with former and current employees, this paper explores the sociology of journalistic hires in foreign bureaus at the Associated Press. It finds that locally hired staff play crucial roles in foreign bureaus by providing the often-inexperienced home staffers with local context and linguistic help. The locals thus become an integral part of the Associated Press’ foreign coverage, which became more in-depth and contextua…
Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage
The humanitarian crisis in Syria and the plight of the people fleeing the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa are unfolding in real time before the global news audience. Some stories and pictures—such as Alan Kurdi's drowning off the Turkish coast—were more influential than others, but most believe media can do much more. With so many scholars preoccupied with documenting the changes in media production, it is easy to lose sight of the social dyna…
Blue-Collar Witnesses to Power: The Culture of Photographers at the Associated Press
Using 55 oral history interviews from the corporate archives, this article illuminates the group culture and identity of photographers at the Associated Press from the World War II through the Vietnam War era. The nature of the news agency made AP photographers an important interpretive community, with front-row access to news scenes like the two at the heart of this study: Vietnam and the White House. The photojournalists stood out for their blu…
One Foot in Prison and One Foot Out: State-Appointed Local Journalistic Labor in North Korea
Foreign correspondents are often required to work with government-appointed fixers or minders in authoritarian regimes. This article is a case study of these frequently overlooked journalistic workers in North Korea and the structure of surveillance and social control they work within. Interviews with foreign journalists show that many of these locals are much more than mere government spies. The competing desires Pyongyang has for its fixer-mind…
We see more because we are not there’: Sourcing norms and routines in covering Iran and North Korea
Based on interviews and newsroom visits, this study explores an epistemological hierarchy of sources and sourcing channels that differs substantially from the norms of more traditional forms of journalism. Two niche outlets covering North Korea and Iran are chosen for analysis. Because these countries are notoriously hostile to foreign correspondents, trustworthy news is often difficult to come by. Journalists working for these new outlets prefer…
South Korea’s Watergate Moment: How a Media Coalition Brought Down the Park Geun-hye Government
South Korea had a Watergate moment in 2016, when a corruption scandal led to an impeachment of the president. Two media outlets in particular, the progressive newspaper Hankyoreh and JTBC, a TV station with roots in Samsung, first broke and then sensationalized the scandal that motivated the candlelight protests. Using textual analysis and oral history interviews, this article critically examines news institutions and journalistic culture to deri…
Media representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants: A meta-analysis of research
Media representation of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants has emerged as an important area of research. This study offers a systematic overview of the objects and key characteristics of the field. We analyse 119 scholarly articles collected from the EBSCO database. Our results show that research activity has increased dramatically since 2010. However, this increase was not equally distributed; countries that have received the largest numbe…
Why the media gets it wrong when it comes to North Korea: Cases of ‘dead’ North Koreans in the Kim Jong-un era
Journalists are more capable than ever of covering places they cannot visit in person. The same news environment that makes such reporting possible, however, can also facilitate a global cascade of journalistic errors. This article zooms in on the opportunities provided by a unique cluster of journalistic errors to understand factors influencing journalistic errors in international stories. It focuses on erroneous death reports of seven prominent…
The ‘Kim Jong-un Effect’ and the mainstreaming of North Korea coverage in UK Media
This article uses qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse the entire corpus of news articles published about North Korea by six major UK national newspapers from 2000 to 2020. It offers insights on how North Korea evolved from a relatively obscure subject to a mainstay in the world news section, particularly for the tabloids. Coverage grew exponentially, led by not only stories about nuclear development and missile programmes, but also by…
What Am I Doing Here? Self-Reflexivity in Cross-Border Journalism Research
In journalism research conducted in the Global South, power relationships between the researcher and the researched mirror the uneven power structures between the Western journalists and their news subjects or their non-Western colleagues working alongside them. But so far, the figure of the journalism researcher in such contexts has not been problematized to any great extent in journalism scholarship. Moreover, the journalism researcher working …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Journalism (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Art (3 works)