Research

(forthcoming) Meta-authenticity and Fake but Real Virtual Influencers: A Framework for Artificial Sociality Analysis and Ethics. New Media & Society.

"Pay for your choices": Deconstructing neoliberal choice through free-to-play mobile interactive fiction games. New Media & Society, 25(5).

I'll Play on My Other Account: The Network and Behavioral Differences of Sybils. Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction [CHI Play]. (Second author, co-authored with Fred Morstatter, Natalie Jonckheere, Calvin Liu, Malika Seth, and Dmitri Williams)

Third places in the Ether Around Us: Layers on the Real World. In J. Pascoe, & C. Bosman (Eds.), Rethinking Third Places: Informal Public Spaces and Community Building. Edward Elgar Publishing. (Second author, co-authored with Dmitri Williams)

Artificial Not Welcome, Real Is Better? Sus Virtual Beings Among Us. In Media Res, Media Commons.

Introduction – Feeding the Civic Imagination. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. (First author, co-authored with Sangita Shresthova and Paulina Lanz)

Flying Cars and Bigots: Projecting Post-COVID-19 Worlds Through the Atlas of the Civic Imagination as Refuge for Hope. Continuum: Journal of Media & Communication Studies. (Equal contribution, co-authored with select members from the research group Civic Paths [PIs: Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova])

Connecting In-Game Performance, Need Satisfaction, and Psychological Well-Being for Video Game Players across the Lifespan. New Media & Society. (Third author, co-authored with Mingxuan Liu, Sukyoung Choi, and Dmitri Williams)

The Joy Kill Club: On Squid Game (2021), a Roundtable-Monologue by a Korean Female Aca-fan (Part One). ibid. (Part Two). Confessions of an Aca-fan. Henryjenkins.org.

Mirroring the Misogynistic Wor(l)d: Civic Imagination and Speech Mirroring Strategy in Korea’s Online Feminist Activism. In H. Jenkins, G. Peters-Lazaro, & S. Shresthova (Eds.), Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change [Awarded 2021 Browne Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture]. NYU Press.

(forthcoming) Remapping Visibility: Layerability of Gay Dating Apps and Hybrid Placemaking in Seoul, Korea. Communication Monographs.

Digital Feminism and Affective Splintering: South Korean Twitter Discourse on 500 Yemeni Refugees. International Journal of Communication, 14, 19. (First author, co-authored with Nathaniel Ming Curran, Hyun Tae (Calvin) Kim)

“Everyone deserves a Smartphone?”: Understanding the media’s legitimation of mobile technology use by Syrian refugees. Mass Communication and Society, 22(6), 779-803. (Equal contribution, co-authored with Andrea Alarcon, Jeeyun Baik)

GPS Tracking in Dementia Caregiving: Social Norm, Perceived Usefulness, and Behavioral Intent to Use Technology. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 3804-3817. (co-authored with Yao Sun, Hye Min Kim, Yusi Xu, Yunwen Wang, Jillian Kwong, Steffie Kim, Margaret McLaughlin)