Research Areas
Research Area 1: On surveillance cultures beyond the Global North
My research in this area seeks contribute to understanding of privacy, surveillance, and data cultures in our increasingly networked and global media landscape.
Lee, J. J. (2022). Vital dataveillance: Investigating data in exchange for vitality through South Korea’s COVID-19 technogovernance. Communication, Culture & Critique. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac001
Lee, J. & Lee, J. J. (In press). The homophobic call-outs of COVID-19: Spurring, consuming, and spreading angry attention from online news to YouTube in South Korea. International Journal of Communication. https://espace.curtin.edu.au/bitstream/handle/20.500.11937/91361/91185.pdf?sequence=2
Lee, J. J. & Ahn, C. J. (Accepted for publication). Vlog Worthy Surveillance?: Investigating the Playful Surveillance Imaginaries of South Korea’s Quarantine Vlogs. Surveillance & Society.
Research Area 2: Digital platforms and racialized and gendered visibilities
In this topic area, I explore the cultures, technical infrastructures, and politics of social media platforms by centering the experiences of Asian women creators across the globe.
Lee J. J., & Lee, J. (2023). #StopAsianHate on TikTok: Asian/American women’s space-making for spearheading counter-narratives and forming an ad hoc Asian community. Social Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231157598
Lee, J. J. & Swan, A. (Under Review). Interviewing as building situated platform knowledge: A reflection on interviews with transnational women content creators. Routledge Companion to Media Audiences.
Research Area 3: Transnational Flow of Popular Culture and Korean Media Studies
In this area of research, my colleagues and I have been critically examining the popularity of transnational texts as they cross cultural borders and imaginations.
Lee, J. & Rich, K. (2022). The Handmaiden. Directed by Park Chan-wook. Seoul: CJ Entertainment, 2016. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0176 (Movie review)
Kim, S., Lee, J. J. & Swan, A. (2022). Consuming Ali Abdul: Transnational Commodification of Brownness in Squid Game. Communication, Culture & Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac035 (Commentary)
Lee, J. J, Lee, Y., & Park, J. (2020). Unpacking K-pop in America: The subversive potential of male K-pop idols’ soft masculinity. International Journal of Communication, 14, 5900-5919.
Park, J. H., Lee, J., & Lee, Y. (2019). Do webtoon-based TV dramas represent transmedia storytelling? Industrial factors leading to webtoon-based dramas. International Journal of Communication, 13, 2179-2198.
Yoon, B. N., Park, J. H, Lee, J. (2018). Illusion of change – Audience readings of a male childcare reality show in Korea. Asian Women, 34(4), 1-23.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Lee, J. J. & Lee J. (2023). Care-less data pop cultures: An investigation of the data imaginaries and data cultures of the pandemic. Accepted to be presented at the annual conference of the Association of Researchers, Philadelphia, USA.
Lee, J. J. (2023). Beyond self-branding: Asian women content creators’ collective branding in transnational content creation. Presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada.
Lee, J. J. (2023). “I’ve become more convinced that they exist”: Investigating the power of algorithms through South Korean women content creators’ algorithmic imaginaries and encounters. Presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada.
Lee, J. J. (2023). Ethics of AI Relations: Examining the politics of AI ethics discourse and gendered human-AI relations through the case study of chatbot Lee Luda. Presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada. *Top Student Paper Award.
Kim, A. J. & Lee, J. J. (2023). Living Liminally: How Korean women cope with the rise of Anti-Asian violence in the United States as racialized, gendered, and liminal beings. Presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Toronto, Canada. *Nominated for publication in the journal Communication, Culture, & Critique.
Lee, J. & Lee, J. J. (2023). Pornographic algorithms: South Korean women’s everyday fight against sexism on social media. Presented at Algorithms for Her 2 Conference, University of Sheffield, UK.
Lee, J. J. (2022). The aftermath of pandemic data disclosure: Towards a data governance framework for equitable datacultures. Paper presented at the GigaNet Annual Symposium (hybrid).
Lee, J. J., Ahn, C. J. (2021). Playing with pandemic surveillance: An investigation of South Korean public’s quarantine vlogs on YouTube. Paper presented at the annual convention of the National Communication Association, Seattle, Washington.
Ahn. C. J., Lee, J. J. (2021). Oh, Asians don’t mind data privacy, right?: Korean public’s perception of government’s digital surveillance to combat COVID-19. Extended abstract presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association (virtual conference).
Lee, J. J. (2020). The politics of discursive obfuscation: A case study of anti social justice discourse in South Korea’s YouTube comment space. Paper presented at the annual convention of the National Communication Association (virtual conference).
Lee, J. J. (2019). Misogyny cloaked as a critique of feminism: A case study of Yang Ye-won’s ‘Me too’ YouTube video. Paper presented at the annual convention of the National Communication Association, Baltimore, Maryland.
Lee, R., Lee. J. J. (2019). Swiping Tinder – Ironic freedom and changing intimacies in contemporary Korea. Paper presented at the 10th Honors Symposium for Asian Ph.D students in Communication Research.
Lee, J. J., Lee, R., Park, J. H. (2019). Unpacking K-pop in America: Stigma management and Asian masculinities. Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Washington, DC.
Lee, J. J. (2019). Antagonistic publics of Korea’s culture of hate: A case study of YouTube in Korea. Research proposal presented at the 16th Cultural Studies Camp, Seoul, Korea.
Lee, J. (2018). From victims of war to peace activists: War and Women’s Human Rights museum’s memorializing of the comfort women. Paper presented at the 9th Honors Symposium for Asian Ph.D students in Communication Research, Seoul, Korea.
Lee, J. (2018). Exploring the emergence and implications of sex work perspective on prostitution in Korea. Paper presented at the 15th Cultural Studies Camp, Seoul, Korea.