BOOK

 

Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2018. Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media. Palgrave Macmillan.

                                  Reviewed in Asian Communication Research by Myoung-Sun Song

                                  Interviewed by The Office of Advancement at UW-Tacoma

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Peer-Review Journal Articles​

 

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• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2023. “​K-Pop Without Koreans: Racial Imagination and Boundary Making in K-Pop.” International Journal of Communication 17: 92-111. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun and E Kyung Yoon. 2020. “Between Love and Hate: The New Korean Wave, Japanese Female Fans, and Anti-Korean Sentiment in Japan.” Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 19(2): 179-196. (principal author)

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2019. “Anti-Korean Sentiment and Online Affective Community in Taiwan.” Asian Journal of Communication 29(6): 445-463. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun and Hyewon Park. 2019. “Dealing with Hate Speech: Voices from Young Resident Koreans in Japan.” Asian Journal of Social Science 47(6): 677-700. (principal author) 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun and Tien-wen Lin. 2019. “The Politics of Apology: The ‘Tzuyu Scandal’ and Transnational Dynamics of K-Pop.” International Communication Gazette 81(2): 158-175. (principal author) BEST ARTICLE AWARD FOR JUNIOR SCHOLAR 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2015. “Desiring Biracial Whites: Cultural Consumption of White Mixed-Race Celebrities in South Korean Popular Media.” Media, Culture & Society 37(6): 937-947. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2014. “Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the Struggle for Koreanness in Contemporary South Korean Media.” Cultural Studies 28(3): 391-417. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2013. “Global Migration and the Racial Project in Transition: Institutionalizing Racial Difference through Multiculturalism Discourse in South Korea.” Journal of Multicultural Discourses 8(1): 29-47. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2012. “Transforming Korea into Multicultural Society: Reception of Multiculturalism Discourse and its Discursive Disposition in Korea.” Asian Ethnicity 13(1): 95-107. One of the most read and cited articles in the journal 

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Publication in Korean

• Lee, Sang-Gil and Ji-Hyun Ahn. 2007. “다문화주의와 미디어/문화연구: 국내 연구동향의 검토와 새로운 전망의 모색" [Multiculturalism and Media/Cultural Studies]. Korean Journal of Journalism & Communication Studies 51(5): 58-84. (second author) 

• Lee, Hee-Eun, Kyung-Han Yoo and Ji-Hyun Ahn. 2007. “TV 광고에 나타난 전략적 다문화주의와 인종주의" [Strategic Multiculturalism and Racialism in Television Advertising]. Korean Journal of Communication & Information (39): 473-505. (third author)

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun, Jung-eun Hong, Sook-hyun Kim, and Seol-hee Lee. 2006. “핸드폰을 이용한 소녀들의 놀이문화 연구: 여고생들의 이용패턴을 중심으로" [A Study on Korean Girls’ Play-Culture Using the Mobile Phone]. Media, Gender & Culture (5): 162-200. (equal authors)

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Book Chapters

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• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2024. “Narrating the Nation during the Global Pandemic: The “K-Quarantine” and Biopolitical Nationalism in the Era of COVID-19,” In G. Yang, B. Meng, & E. J. Yuan (eds), Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 167-187). Michigan State University Press. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2022. “Race, Nation, and Media in Contemporary South Korean Television,” In S. Roy et al. (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Communication. Oxford University Press.  

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2022. “Televised Korean Dream: A Critical Look at Racial/Ethnic Diversity in a Survival Audition Program in South Korea,” In D. C. Oh (ed), Mediating the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State (pp. 66-84). University of Michigan Press. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2021. "Inter-Asia Media/Cultural Studies in the Era of Hate," in D. Jin (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Globalization (pp. 120-128). London; New York: Routledge.

• Lee, Claire and Ji-Hyun Ahn. 2019. “Imagining Homeland: New Media Use among Korean International Graduate Students in the U.S,” In A. Atay & M. D'Silva (eds),  Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age  (pp. 185-203). London; New York: Routledge. (second author) 

• Cho, Younghan and Ji-Hyun Ahn. 2018. “Sports Communication,” In D. Y. Jin & N. Kwak (eds), Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea: Contemporary Research and Future Prospects (pp. 381-404). Rowman & Littlefield. (second author)

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2016. “Mixed-Race: From Pathology to Celebration,” In Christopher P. Campbell (ed), The Routledge Companion to Race and Media (pp. 250-258). London; New York: Routledge. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2016. “Korean Multiculturalism and Its Discontents,” In Koichi Iwabuchi, Hyun Mee Kim, & Hsiao-Chuan Hsia (eds), Multiculturalism in East Asia: A Transnational Exploration of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (pp. 21-36). Rowman & Littlefield International. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun, Jung-eun Hong, Sook-hyun Kim, and Seol-hee Lee. 2006. “Girls’ Play-Culture Using the Mobile Phone,” In Dong-hoo Lee & Ye-ran Kim (eds.), Mobile-Girls@Digital.Asia (pp. 321-351). Seoul: Hanul. (equal authors)

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Book Review Articles

 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2023. Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community by Younghan Cho (Palgrave Macmillan), Journal of Asian Studies 82(4): 723-724. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2022. Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture by Dal Yong Jin, Kyong Yoon, and Wonjung Min (Rowman & Littlefield), ASIASCAPE: Digital Asia 9: 201-203. 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2017. Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism by Kim Park Nelson (Rutgers University Press), Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(8): 1339-1341.

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Reports 

 

• Ahn, Ji-Hyun. 2021. The paradox of the parade of nations: A South Korean network’s coverage of the opening ceremony at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a short report written for Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega Events, Media, and the Politics of Sports published by the Center for Sports Communication & Media at The University of Texas at Austin.

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