ABOUT

Do Own (Donna) Kim is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. Donna studies everyday, playful digital cultures and communication technologies, focusing on hybridity, norms, and being human/artificial in emerging media contexts. She has published on video games, virtual influencers, and Korean media and digital cultures in journals such as New Media & Society, Communication Monographs, and International Journal of Communication. She is currently working on an NRF-funded project on AI and polarization, a collaborative project about the relational labor of queer artists in Korea, and her book project on virtual influencers. Donna received her Ph.D. degree in Communication from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Website: https://www.doowndonnakim.com/