Publications

As a scholar with research interests in digital and media literacy education, intercultural communication, and cultural competence, I have authored and contributed to numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reports. Below is a selected list of my written publications, which will be updated periodically as I add PDF files or links to the full text. If you need a copy of any of these articles or would like to discuss them further, please feel free to contact me through the website’s contact page. I would be happy to send it to you.

Translated Book (Korean)

I translated Create to Learn: Introduction to Digital Literacy by Renee Hobbs into Korean:

디지털 미디어 리터러시 수업: 만들며 배우기

Book Chapters & Journal Articles (English)

‘K-Education’ during the Pandemic: What Covid-19 has revealed about schooling in the most wired country in the world (with Hyeon-Seon Jeong & Amie Kim), The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic (edited by Yonty Friesem, Usha Raman, Igor Kanižaj & Grace Y. Choi), Routledge (2022) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283737
Media Literacy in South Korea (with Hyeon-Seon Jeong & Amie Kim), The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy (edited by Renee Hobbs & Paul Mihailidis), Wiley, (2019). DOI: 10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0163
Media Literacy with New Immigrants. The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy (edited by Renee Hobbs & Paul Mihailidis), Wiley, (2019) DOI: 10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0128
Ideocratic legitimation in North Korea: Its history and challenges. Ideocracies in Comparison: Legitimation, Co-optation, Repression (edited by Uwe Backes & Steffen Kailitz), Routledge, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725925 (This book is an updated English edition of Legitimation, Integration und Repression. I made significant updates and revisions from the previous version of this article that was published in 2014.)
Ideocratic legitimation in North Korea. Ideokratische Regime. Legitimation, Integration und Repression. (edited by Uwe Backes & Steffen Kailitz), Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2014)
North Korean refugees in South Korea: Using videos for storytelling, healing and unification. Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue. (edited by Ulla Carlsson & Sherri Hope Culver) Goteborg, Sweden: NORDICOM (2013)
Online Digital Media in Elementary Schools: Promoting Cultural Understanding. (with Renee Hobbs,\ J., Al-Humaidan, R., Ebrahimi, A., Cabral, N. (2011). Journal of Middle East Media, 7 (1), 1-23.
Field-Based Teacher Education in Elementary Media Literacy as a Means to Promote Global Understanding (with R. Hobbs, N. Cabral, A. Ebrahimi, & R. Al-Humaidan), Action in Teacher Education, 33(2), 144-156 (2011).
The Power of Voice: North Koreans Negotiating Identity and Social Integration via Mediated Storytelling, In T. Tufte & F. Enghel (Eds.), Yearbook 2009: Youth Engaging With the World: Media, Communication and Social Change. Goteborg, Sweden: NORDICOM (2009).
The Development of Media Literacy in Russia: Efforts from Inside and Outside the Country, In L. Marcus (Ed.), Issues in Information Literacy and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy. Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science, 189-213 (2009).
The Transnational Reach of Korean Popular Culture in Asia: Influences of the Korean Wave on Understandings of Korea and Pan-Asian Identity, Asian Cinema, 19(2), 292-305 (2008).
Creating Empowering Environments in Youth Media Organizations (with R. Hobbs), Youth Media Reporter (2008).
South Koreans Scholars Studying North Korean Movies, Asian Cinema, 18(2), 160-179 (2007).

Book Chapters, Journal Articles, Reports (Korean)

청소년 미디어 이용 실태 및 대상별 정책대응방안 연구 Ⅰ: 초등학생 – 해외사례 조사 (한국청소년정책연구원, 2020) – Research on Youth Media Use and Policy Responses by Target: Survey of Overseas Cases (National Youth Policy Institute)
해외의 다문화 미디어 교육 실천 사례 (한국언론진흥재단, 2018). Media literacy and multicultural education: Cases and practices outside Korea. (Journal of Media Literacy by Korean Press Foundation , 5, 18- 23).

Media Literacy for North Korean Refugees: New Understanding and Approaches (in Korean), Journal of Media Education, 1(2), 119-158 (2010).
NAMLE (National Association for Media Literacy Education) and Media Literacy Education in the United States (in Korean), Journal of Media Education, 1(1), 137-149 (2010).
Diverse Cultures and Media Education (with J. Ahn, K. Jeon, Y. Kim, & H. Park) (in Korean), Seoul, South Korea: Broadcasting & Communication Promotion Bureau (2009).

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Translated Book (Korean)

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Book Chapters, Journal Articles, Reports (Korean)

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Translated Book (Korean)

Book Chapters & Journal Articles (English)

Book Chapters, Journal Articles, Reports (Korean)

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Digital Savvy, Culturally Intelligent Kids