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| Myoung-Hye KIM |
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| President of Korean Women¡¯s Association for Communication Studies, Professor of Department of Mass Communication, Dong-Eui University(Korea)
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Myoung-Hye Kim is a professor of Department of Mass Communication at Dong-Eui University (1996.3-present). She was the director of Dong-Eui Broadcasting Station for 2 years
and a member of Reform Committee of Busan City. She also served as journal editor of ¡°Media, Gender & Culture". Currently she serves as president of Korean Women¡¯s Association for Communication Studies (2006.11-present).
She has been an active member of Korean Women¡¯s Association for Communication Studies which has exerted much effort on mainstreaming of gender issues in the media. As part of such endeavor, she co-authored several books such as ¡°Gender, Media & Culture,¡± ¡°Mass Media and Gendered Symbolic Order,¡± ¡°Gender Politics in Mass Media,¡± ¡°Cyber culture and women¡± and ¡°Mobile-girls@digital.asia.¡± The Association has broadened its focus to the use of information technology for empowering women as well as concerns on the digital divide along the gender line. The above issues were critically addressed in the symposium on ¡°The Development and Use of Gender-Equality Index in Cyber Public Space¡± held in Seoul (November 2006).
As a researcher, she published numerous scholarly articles on women and media including information technology. Concerning information technology, she published articles ¡°Reproduction of Mothering through the Use of Mobile Phone,¡± ¡°A Study on School Girls¡¯ Use and Attitude toward Computer and Internet,¡± and ¡°Cyber Sexual Assault from the Crossroads of Gender and Sexuality.¡± Her current research interest lies in the use of information technology for the migrant women for marriage. She tries to probe into ways to help those migrant women for marriage to settle down successfully in a new culture.
She is also actively involved in media literacy movement and gender-equality education in the media. She has given lectures to a wide variety of audience from college students to professional monitors for broadcasting programs. She also participated in a gender-equality training program for the writers for television and radio sponsored by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
She received a B.S degree from Seoul National University, Korea (1980) and a Ph.D. in Communication from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA (1992).
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