Benjamin Han, PH.D.
Assistant Professor, Tulane University
E-Mail: bhan5@tulane.edu
Benjamin Han is a media historian and global media studies scholar whose work focuses on television studies, race and ethnicity, and the cultural intersections between East Asia and Latin America. He is the author of Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America (Rutgers University Press, 2020). He is currently working on a book that examines how Latin America is imagined in South Korean television.
https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/communication/people/benjamin-han
Taeyoung Kim, PH.D.
Lecturer, Loughborough University
E-Mail: t.kim2@lboro.ac.uk
Taeyoung Kim is a Lecturer in Communication and Media at the School of Social Science and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK. His studies centre on cultural policies, cultural/creative industries, and globalization, focusing on understanding the relationship between global and local forces in cultural production and the state’s response to forces of globalization. Taeyoung completed his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University, and his research has appeared in several journals, including Media, Culture & Society, the International Journal of Communication, and Television & New Media.
Robert Prey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Digital Culture, The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford
E-mail: robert.prey@oii.ox.ac.uk
Dr. Robert Prey is Associate Professor of Digital Culture at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College.
Dr. Prey studies the relationship between technology, capitalism and culture. His research and writings have included work on the social and cultural implications of algorithmic recommendation systems and the interdependent processes of ‘datafication’ and ‘platformization’.
Robert’s current focus is the creative labour of musicians as they adapt to online platforms. He is principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project “The Platformization of Music: Towards a Global Theory”, or ‘PlatforMuse’ (2023-2028). The project investigates how streaming and social media platforms influence the creative practices, identities, and working conditions of musicians around the world, with a particular focus on the Netherlands, Nigeria and South Korea.
Dr. Prey is also part of an international team of researchers investigating the algorithmic mediation of taste and streaming consumption practices in Brazil. This project is funded by a Brazil National Council for Scientific and Technological Development Grant. Previous projects have been funded by the Academy of Korean Studies and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Robert joins from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he was Assistant Professor in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies. He completed his PhD at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where he is an Affiliated Faculty Member in the Transnational Culture and Digital Technology Lab.
Kyong Yoon, PH.D.
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia Okanagan
E-Mail: kyong.yoon@ubc.ca
Kyong Yoon is a Seoul-born media researcher. His research focuses on digital media, migration, cultural industries, and East Asian youth culture. He is the author of Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture and Diasporic Hallyu: The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture. He has co-authored Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture. Prior to coming to UBC Okanagan, he was an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sheffield, a research assistant professor at Korea University, and a Korea Foundation visiting professor at McGill University.