Dasol Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 4603048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dasol Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dasol |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY New Paltz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3987-2319 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Asian Baby Girl transformation phenomenon on YouTube
Asian Baby Girl (ABG) represents a prominent second-generation Asian American archetype rooted in the 1980s and 1990s, where youth navigated sociopolitical constraints by creating a distinct culture that challenged historical legacies of exclusion and the ‘forever foreign’ portrayal of Asians. Their particular aesthetic has gained prominence among Asian American beauty creators on YouTube within the past five years, particularly through ABG trans…
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces
Oliver-ssaem, a White American and former English teacher in South Korea, has risen to prominence as a YouTube content creator exploring both Korean and American cultures. His intentional role as a cultural intermediary between Korea and the U.S. highlights how he strategically employs his Whiteness to enhance visibility. When targeting Korean viewers, Oliver-ssaem not only praises and endorses the excellence of Korean culture and products but al…
Selling Otherness on YouTube
This article investigates the influence of YouTube's monetization metrics on content creation practices and their reflection of geopolitical and economic factors. Using the case study of “Team Azimkiya,” a Bangladeshi YouTube channel primarily targeting South Korean viewers, the study introduces the concept of “global CPM arbitrage.” CPM, or cost per 1000 impressions, estimates advertising revenue for channels. Global CPM arbitrage characterizes …
Racialized beauty, visibility, and empowerment
Asian American women’s beauty practices have been doubly pathologized – not only being stereotyped as passive, dull, unattractive, and foreign, but also stigmatized as non-normative, uneducated, self-harming, and complicit to White beauty ideals. This study examines how this unique positionality of Asian American women is entangled with influencer practices conceptualized as a place of postfeminist subject-making. I conducted a qualitative textua…
Economies of Difference and Identity-based Content on a Digital Platform
This study presents a conceptualization of identity-based content creation in the digital sphere, examining the cases of two TikTok content creators, Amy and Erin, who leverage their identities to establish distinctive brands. Amy, a white American English teacher in Korea, highlights the differences between her and Korean society in her content about Korea, while Erin, a Korean American, critiques Amy’s content by emphasizing the distinction bet…
The New Selfie Standard
Since its release in 2013, Facetune has risen to become the top paid photo and video app in the US. In this study, we document that the types of retouching tools Facetune make available mark a more significant shift in the American cultural practice of image editing, signaling an adoption of East Asian attitudes toward beauty standards and the plasticity of the image. Working within the Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) framework,…
Black Girl Tries Korean Makeup
This study aims to theorize how YouTube fundamentally capitalizes the racial and gender identity of women of color and local culture in a way it facilitates inter-racial and inter-cultural conflicts. I specifically focus on so-called K-beauty (Korean beauty), a catchy trend on YouTube which encompasses aesthetics, cosmetic products, and beauty ideals from South Korea, characterized by pursuing glowing, dewy, and light skin tone featuring a variet…
Domesticating the Body of the Exotic Other
Through the medium of a brass candlestick made in a sixteenth-century German foundry, I discuss the Christian European household’s sensory engagement and spatial control of the Muslim body. I argue that the Europeans’ sensory experience of the turbaned candlestick reflects and reinforces their conceptualization of Islamic culture, which is a blend of fear and fascination. The turbaned candlestick allows us to explore issues rarely discussed in th…
Community Banking Institutions
Changes in the regulatory environment and technological advances have dramatically changed the competitive landscape for community banking institutions. While only accounting for a fraction of the overall size of the banking industry, community banks are predominant in numbers around the world for a broad range of depository institution types, including commercial banks, savings banks, cooperative banks, and credit unions. The steep decline in th…
Selling Otherness on YouTube
This article investigates the influence of YouTube's monetization metrics on content creation practices and their reflection of geopolitical and economic factors. Using the case study of “Team Azimkiya,” a Bangladeshi YouTube channel primarily targeting South Korean viewers, the study introduces the concept of “global CPM arbitrage.” CPM, or cost per 1000 impressions, estimates advertising revenue for channels. Global CPM arbitrage characterizes …
Economies of Difference and Identity-based Content on a Digital Platform
This study presents a conceptualization of identity-based content creation in the digital sphere, examining the cases of two TikTok content creators, Amy and Erin, who leverage their identities to establish distinctive brands. Amy, a white American English teacher in Korea, highlights the differences between her and Korean society in her content about Korea, while Erin, a Korean American, critiques Amy’s content by emphasizing the distinction bet…
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces
Oliver-ssaem, a White American and former English teacher in South Korea, has risen to prominence as a YouTube content creator exploring both Korean and American cultures. His intentional role as a cultural intermediary between Korea and the U.S. highlights how he strategically employs his Whiteness to enhance visibility. When targeting Korean viewers, Oliver-ssaem not only praises and endorses the excellence of Korean culture and products but al…
Community Banking Institutions
Changes in the regulatory environment and technological advances have dramatically changed the competitive landscape for community banking institutions. While only accounting for a fraction of the overall size of the banking industry, community banks are predominant in numbers around the world for a broad range of depository institution types, including commercial banks, savings banks, cooperative banks, and credit unions. The steep decline in th…
Domesticating the Body of the Exotic Other
Through the medium of a brass candlestick made in a sixteenth-century German foundry, I discuss the Christian European household’s sensory engagement and spatial control of the Muslim body. I argue that the Europeans’ sensory experience of the turbaned candlestick reflects and reinforces their conceptualization of Islamic culture, which is a blend of fear and fascination. The turbaned candlestick allows us to explore issues rarely discussed in th…
The New Selfie Standard
Since its release in 2013, Facetune has risen to become the top paid photo and video app in the US. In this study, we document that the types of retouching tools Facetune make available mark a more significant shift in the American cultural practice of image editing, signaling an adoption of East Asian attitudes toward beauty standards and the plasticity of the image. Working within the Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) framework,…
Black Girl Tries Korean Makeup
This study aims to theorize how YouTube fundamentally capitalizes the racial and gender identity of women of color and local culture in a way it facilitates inter-racial and inter-cultural conflicts. I specifically focus on so-called K-beauty (Korean beauty), a catchy trend on YouTube which encompasses aesthetics, cosmetic products, and beauty ideals from South Korea, characterized by pursuing glowing, dewy, and light skin tone featuring a variet…
Racialized beauty, visibility, and empowerment
Asian American women’s beauty practices have been doubly pathologized – not only being stereotyped as passive, dull, unattractive, and foreign, but also stigmatized as non-normative, uneducated, self-harming, and complicit to White beauty ideals. This study examines how this unique positionality of Asian American women is entangled with influencer practices conceptualized as a place of postfeminist subject-making. I conducted a qualitative textua…
Economies of Difference and Identity-based Content on a Digital Platform
This study presents a conceptualization of identity-based content creation in the digital sphere, examining the cases of two TikTok content creators, Amy and Erin, who leverage their identities to establish distinctive brands. Amy, a white American English teacher in Korea, highlights the differences between her and Korean society in her content about Korea, while Erin, a Korean American, critiques Amy’s content by emphasizing the distinction bet…
Selling Otherness on YouTube
This article investigates the influence of YouTube's monetization metrics on content creation practices and their reflection of geopolitical and economic factors. Using the case study of “Team Azimkiya,” a Bangladeshi YouTube channel primarily targeting South Korean viewers, the study introduces the concept of “global CPM arbitrage.” CPM, or cost per 1000 impressions, estimates advertising revenue for channels. Global CPM arbitrage characterizes …
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces
Oliver-ssaem, a White American and former English teacher in South Korea, has risen to prominence as a YouTube content creator exploring both Korean and American cultures. His intentional role as a cultural intermediary between Korea and the U.S. highlights how he strategically employs his Whiteness to enhance visibility. When targeting Korean viewers, Oliver-ssaem not only praises and endorses the excellence of Korean culture and products but al…
The Asian Baby Girl transformation phenomenon on YouTube
Asian Baby Girl (ABG) represents a prominent second-generation Asian American archetype rooted in the 1980s and 1990s, where youth navigated sociopolitical constraints by creating a distinct culture that challenged historical legacies of exclusion and the ‘forever foreign’ portrayal of Asians. Their particular aesthetic has gained prominence among Asian American beauty creators on YouTube within the past five years, particularly through ABG trans…
Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · Beauty (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Advertising (2 works)