FEATURED AUTHOR

Youna Kim

Professor
The American University of Paris, France

Subjects: Media and Cultural Studies

Biography

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, joined from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at the University of London, Goldsmiths College.

Her books are Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (2005, Routledge); Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (2008, Routledge); Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (2011, Routledge); Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self (2012, Palgrave Macmillan); The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (2013, Routledge); Global Nannies: Minorities and the Digital Media (in preparation).

Her books have been reviewed in various academic journals including Media, Culture & Society, Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Discourse & Society, Women's Studies International Forum, Political Studies Review, Asian Journal of Communication, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and the Review of Korean Studies.

Professor Kim's research interests include sociology of media/culture, gender and media globalization, Korea/Asia, media audiences, women, television and everyday life, transnational migration, digital diaspora, identity, cultural and educational consequences of globalization, 'de-westernizing' media and cultural studies.

Professor Kim has been invited to join the International Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Communication Yearbook (ICA), and Feminist Media Studies, and the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Social and Political Thought. She reviews book proposals for publishers Routledge and SAGE and serves as a referee for academic journals in the field of media, communications, sociology, cultural and gender studies.