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24.01.2025 |
10:00 c.t. - 11:30
Korea Europe Center Special Lecture Series on Gender
Lecture
It is hard to deny that digital platforms have become a space where all human activity, including the digital expression of emotions, can be quantified and exploited by the companies that own them. This exploitation is aimed at maximizing profits by mediating between consumers, advertisers, service providers, producers, and suppliers. Women, whose bodies and sexuality were consistently monetized even before the digital economy became widespread, are now even more susceptible to objectification. The controversy that erupted in July 2024 in Korea, after the YouTube channel named GARCERO INSTITUTE published the illegal filming of a famous female YouTuber and the threats made by cyberwrecker channels without her consent, is a stark example of how violence against women in the name of justice becomes a direct channel for profit in the digital economy. In this special lecture, I will delve into the ways in which justice without public sense is amplified on digital platforms and how it shapes the 'media figure' of the woman in question.
About the lecturer
Hyun Gyung Kim is an assistant professor at Seoul Women's University. Her research interests include feminist cultural studies, postcolonial and Cold War regimes and gender, qualitative methodology, and visual material-based methodology. She has published articles on the cultural politics of women political leaders' appearance in the Korean Media, the Korean Wave celebrity and the K-drama conglomerate, neoliberal postfeminism, and the relationship between Japanese military sexual slavery and the Cold War, both Korean and English.
Please register to join the lecture online:
https://fu-berlin.webex.com/weblink/register/r094759f998fe75cd42bef6fa16da6cd8
