welcome to Chamee Yang, Visiting Researcher at Department of Digital Humanities 🎊

We are delighted to announce Chamee Yang (Seoul National University) who is currently visiting us as a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.

Welcome Chamee! 🎊

Chamee Yang is Associate Professor of Communication at Seoul National University. Her research works across media history and theory, technocultural studies, and science and technology studies (STS), with a particular focus on the history and politics of “smartness” across Asian and global contexts. Her work examines how technologies become entangled with longstanding concerns around mobility, security, economy, and development, and how seemingly new technological problems are historically and socioculturally constituted. Her research has appeared in Science, Technology, & Human Values, Big Data & Society, International Journal of Communication, among other venues. She is the author of City in a Future Tense: The Making of a Smart City in South Korea (University of California Press, 2026). 

Chamee is visiting us in London as part of the K-platforms project, which is co-developing tools and methods for studying digital platforms and cultures in South Korea. This is a collaboration between the Department of Communication at Seoul National University, the School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) and the Centre for Digital Culture and Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

We will be hosting a book launch for Chamee’s book on Wednesday 14th October 2026, 5-7pm. The event will also feature a preview of work from the K-platforms project with our collaborator June Jeon (KAIST), a zine on redrawing Korean media landscapes co-created with Birdcall (Seoul), and discussion and exchanges on Chamee’s research with Güneş Tavmen, Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan W. Y. Gray.

Following the growing feminist technocultures workshop with Youjin Jeon from Woman Open Tech Lab as well as events at SNU, KAIST and Birdcall, we’re keen to continue to grow connections amongst digital culture researchers, communities and spaces in London and Seoul. If this is of interest, we hope to see you on the 14th. 🍂🌕🌌✨