Youna Kim

Contact: ykim@aup.fr Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France, 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); Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society (2016, Routledge); Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media (2017, Routledge); South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea (2019, Routledge); The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama (2021, Routledge); Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered and Mobile (2022, Routledge). 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, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Political Studies Review, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Asian Journal of Communication, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Journal of East Asian 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, digital media and everyday life, transnational migration, digital diaspora, cultural 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), Global Media and Communication, and Feminist Media Studies, and the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Social and Political Thought (International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory). 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. Contact: ykim@aup.fr The American University of Paris 6, rue du Colonel Combes 75007 Paris France