Dal Yong Jin

Dal Yong Jin is a media studies scholar. He is a professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada^[1] where his research explores platform technologies and ICTs, digital games, media history, political economy of communication, globalization and trans-nationalization, and science journalism. He has published 10 books and penned more than 100 articles and chapters. Jin has delivered numerous conference presentations, invited lectures, and media interviews on subjects such as digital platforms, video games, globalization, transnational culture, and the Korean Wave.

Background and education

Jin was born in Suwon, South Korea. He attended Yonsei University. After working as a newspaper reporter for many years, he resumed his academic journey. He holds a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2005 he received his Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Communications Research from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Academic career

• Associate Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
• Director of CPROST (Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology)
• Simon Fraser University, Researcher
• Visiting Associate Professor, School of Communication, Yonsei University, South Korea
• Adjunct Professor, International Summer Campus, Korea University
• Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea Master Program of Science Journalism School of Humanities and Social Science
• Visiting Researcher, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
• Research Associate, Center for Intercultural New Media Research, Marquette University
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago

Scholarship

Jin has developed several significant theories and conceptual frameworks, such as platform imperialism, de-convergence, and new Korean wave, as well as e-Sports. His works have been received well in several fields, including political economy of communication, globalization, digital games, and Asian media studies. In particular, as Vincent Mosco indicates in his book titled Political Economy of Communication (2009).,^[2] Jin has been known as a leading political economist. He has also been known as a cultural economist among some scholars, including Japanese media scholars, as indicated in Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga^[3] Jin's research has received a number of awards and grants from national and international associations, including the International Communication Association, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Research Foundation of Korea, as well as the Academy of Korean Studies. He was also nominated for Young Scholar Award at the International Communication Association. His book titled Korea's Online Game Empire ^[4] was nominated as the Book of the Year at the International Communication Association. Jin is founding editor of a book series entitled Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia.^[5]

Publications

Books

• Jin, Dal Yong (2016). (ed.). Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies. New York: Springer.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2016). New Korean Wave: transnational cultural power in the age of social media. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2015). Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture. London: Routledge.^[6]
• Jin, Dal Yong (2015). Understanding of Science Journalism (과학저널리즘 이해, in Korean). Seoul: Hanul.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2013). De-Convergence of Global Media Industries. New York: Routledge^[7]
• Jin, Dal Yong (2011). Hands On/Hands Off: The Korean State and the Market Liberalization of the Communication Industry. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.^[8]
• Winseck, Dwayne and Jin, Dal Yong (eds.) (2011). The Political Economies of Media: the transformation of the global media industries. London: Bloomsbury.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2011). Reinterpretation of Cultural Imperialism (문화제국주의의 재해석, in Korean). Seoul: Communication Books.
• Jin, Dal Yong (ed.) (2010). Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2010). Korea’s Online Gaming Empire. Boston, MA: MIT Press.^[9]

Journal special issues

• Jin, Dal Yong and Florian Schneider (2016, Special Issue). The Dynamics of Digital Play in Asia. Asiascape: Digital Asia (DIAS) 3(1/2): 1-111.
• Jin, Dal Yong and Nissim Otmazgin (2014, Special Issue). The Emergence of Asian Cultural Industries: Policies, Strategies, and Trajectories. Pacific Affairs 87(1): 43-114.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2010, Special Issue). Games and Culture: Asia-Pacific Perspective. Iowa Journal of Communication 42(1): 1-94.

Recent journal articles

• Jin, Dal Yong (2016). “Socio-cultural Interpretation of the Bow and Arrow in Digital Media: The Hunger Games versus War of the Arrow” Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 14(1): 279-291.
• Jin, Dal Yong and Florian Schneider (2016). “The Dynamics of Digital Play in Asia.” Asiascape: Digital Asia 3 (1/2): 5-15.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2015). “The Mediatization of Buddhism in Digital Media: the Contemporary Reflection of Uisang’s Hwaom Thought.” Journal of Media and Religion 14(4): 196-210.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2015). “Digital Convergence of Korea’s Webtoons: transmedia storytelling.” Communication Research and Practice 1(3):193-209.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2015). “The Mediatization of Buddhism in Digital Media: the Contemporary Reflection of Uisang’s Hwaom Thought.” Journal of Media and Religion 14(4): 196-210.
• Jin, Dal Yong and Kyong Yoon (2015, Online First 2014). The social mediascape of transnational Korean pop culture: Hallyu 2.0 as spreadable media practice.”New Media and Society
• Jin, Dal Yong (2015). Critical Analysis of User Commodities as Free Labor in Social Networking Sites: A Case Study of Cyworld.” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 29(6): 938-950.
• Jin, Dal Yong and Andrew Feenberg (2015). “Commodity and Community in Social Networking: Marx and the Monetization of User-Generated Content.”The Information Society 31(1): 52-60.
• Jin, Dal Yong and Kyong Yoon (2014, Online First).“Re-imagining smartphones in local mediascape: a cultural analysis of young KaKao Talk users.”Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
• Catherine Hart, Dal Yong Jin, and Andrew Feenberg (2014). "The Insecurity of Innovation: A Critical Analysis of Cybersecurity in the United States.”International Journal of Communication 8: 2860-2878.
• Jin, Dal Yong, Florence Chee, and Seah Kim (2014, Online First). “Transformative Mobile Game Culture: socio-cultural analysis of the Korean mobile gaming in the smartphone era.”International Journal of Cultural Studies
• Jin, Dal Yong and Woong Jae Ryoo (2014). Critical Interpretation of Hybrid K-Pop: The Global-Local Paradigm of English Mixing in Lyrics.” Popular Music and Society 37(2): 113-131.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2014). The Power of the Nation-state amid Neoliberal Reform: shifting cultural politics in the new Korean Wave.” Pacific Affairs 87(1): 71-92.
• Jin, Dal Yong and Nissim Otmazgin (2014). Introduction: East Asian Cultural Industries: Policies, Strategies, and Trajectories.” Pacific Affairs 87(1): 43-51.
• Jin, Dal Yong (2013). "The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalization Era.” Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal For a Global Sustainable Information Society 11(1): 145-172.

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