Supervisor: Bart Cammaerts
Research Topic: The Blog and (In)visible Silences in the South Korean Blogosphere
My research interests lies in new media, particularly the blog, social networking sites, and mobile phones. My current research focuses on how collective social pressure imposes new constraints on interaction and the expression of opinion by bloggers in the socio-political context of South Korea. Using participant observation, on- and offline interviews, supplemented by an explorative online survey, I explore how the politics of visibility – the complexity of technical aspects of 'public' and socio-psychological aspects of 'private' blogging – impacts self-expression and disclosure. Also, I aim to explore bloggers use silence as an active strategy to cope with or act on the social pressure.
Conference Papers
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Kim, J. H. (2008). Paper accepted at 6th International Conference Cyberspace 2008. 28-29 November 2008. Brno. Czech Republic.
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Kim, J. H. (2008). Wang-tta: Online Bullying. paper presented as a poster at the Annual MeCSSA Conference. 10 January 2008. Cardiff.
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Kim, J. H. (2007). Blogging Wang-tta. Paper presented at the Westminster, City, LSE and Goldsmiths Doctoral Consortium, November, University of Westminster, London.
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Kim, J. H. (2007). The Spiral of Invisibility: Social Control in the South Korean Blogosphere. Paper presented at The 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. San Francisco, U.S. 27 May, 2007.
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Kim, J. H. (2006). Disappearing Voices: the Spiral of Invisibility in Blogospheres in Korea. Paper presented at the Westminster, City, LSE and Goldsmiths Doctoral Consortium, April, University of Westminster, London.
Translated Book
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Kim, J. H., & Kim, H. E. (2007). Media Ritual: a Critical Approach by N. Couldry (2003) London: Routledge.
Book Chapter
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Kim, J. H. (2008). A Politics of Visibility: A Space in-between Public and Private. (Eds.). In N. Carpentier, P. Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, K. Nordenstreng, M. Hartmann, P. Vihalemm, B. Cammaerts, T. Olsson (Eds). Democracy, Journalism and Techonology: New Developments in an Enlarged Europe.
Other Publications
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Kim, J. H. (2008). Multi-Culturalism In Canada. Multiculturalism and the People. Special Issue. (forthcoming). Seoul.
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Kim, J. H. (2007). The Spiral of Invisibility in the South Korean Blogopshere. The Department of Media and Communications Electronic Working Papers: 1-25.
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Kim, J. H. (2008). Linking Silence to Innovation. paper Accepted for the EDS Innovation Research Programme, London School of Economics.
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Kim, J. H. (2005). British Press and Social Integration in Broadcasting and Journalism. Seoul: Korea Press Foundation.
Contact: j.kim@lse.ac.uk|