Hyejin Jo is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on the intersections of Korean popular culture, digital platforms, and gender. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis about how human feelings and labour are platformized in the K-pop scene.

Critical Media Studies

Cultural Studies

Feminist Political Economy

Popular Culture

Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Peer-reviewed Journal

Park, S., Jo, H.*, & Kim, T. (2023). Platformization in local cultural production: Korean platform companies and the K-pop industry. International Journal of Communication, 17(2023), 2422-2443.

Book Chapters

Jo, H. (2022). “Beauty Is Growing Up”: A critical case study of femvertising in contemporary South Korea. In J.R. Gwynne (Ed.), The cultural politics femvertising. Palgrave. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99154-8_3

Jo, H., & Jin, D. Y. (2022). Media governance as a utopian concept in a local mediascape: Challenges for conceptual development in South Korea. In S. A. Ganter & H. Badr (Eds.), Media governance: A cosmopolitan critique. Palgrave.

Book Reviews

Jo, H. (2020). Review of “From factory girls to K-pop idol girls: Cultural politics of developmentalism, patriarchy, and neoliberalism in South Korea’s popular music industry,” by G. Y. Kim, Pacific Affairs, 93(4).

Summer 2023
PhD FCAT Graduate Fellowship
Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada

Spring 2023
Professional Development Graduate Award
Graduate Student Society
Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada

David Lam Centre Graduate Research Award
David Lam Centre
Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada

Summer 2022
PhD Graduate Fellowship
School of Communication
Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada

Fall 2020
Mitacs Research Training Award
Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada

Spring 2020
PhD Graduate Fellowship
School of Communication
Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada

PhD FCAT Graduate Fellowship
Spring 2020
Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada