Jane Yeahin Pyo

Jane Yeahin Pyo is a Postdoctoral Researcher of Digital Politics and Race. Her research brings critical and global perspectives to how digital media technology impacts our democratic and social life. She particularly looks at digital politics, global technology, and the Asian American race and disinformation. 

Her book project, Digital parasites: New contentious politics in the age of digital media, examines a new mode of politics enabled by digital media technology. Exploring the emergence of a new political repertoire within South Korean left-wing activism that utilizes online harassment as a tactic to challenge the longstanding power of the conservative press in the gatekeeping of civic discourses since the authoritarian dictatorship, the book reveals divergent ways that people imagine and practice democracy in digital, global contexts.

She also looks at digital technologies' impact on politics within global and transnational flows of disinformation. Working on the “Co-Insights: Fostering community collaboration to combat misinformation” NSF-funded project, her research looks at racialized disinformation targeting Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Particularly, her research is dedicated to decentralizing disinformation studies to look closely into ethnic yet global digital media technologies used by AAPIs, such as WeChat, KakaoTalk, and Line. 
 

 Digital Politics, Digital Media and Technology, Disinformation, Asian American Race, Global Media

PhD, Media and Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

MA, Communication, Yonsei University

BA, Media and Communication, Korea University

Jane has published in top peer-reviewed journals, including New Media & Society, International Journal of Communication, and Digital Journalism. Please visit my website for updates.