About
Youngrim Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and Media and Rackham Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. She is interested in how people create, maintain, and disrupt critical information infrastructures to make sense of and react to global and national disasters. Specifically, Her work examines the role of digital information technologies in disaster response and their implications for nation-building and marginalization in the context of postwar, (post)development East Asia. She is currently writing a dissertation that examines South Korea’s both state- and civic disease response technology throughout the 2015 MERS Epidemic to the current COVID-19 pandemic, and how it relates to the issues of national identity, citizenship, and civic participation in crisis situations. Her research is located at the intersection of critical data studies, infrastructure studies, and feminist/postcolonial science and technology studies (STS).
Youngrim's work on digital technology and disaster citizenship has appeared on New Media and Society, Information Communication and Society, and Journalism. She has also received the Top Student Paper award from International Communication Association's Communication and Technology division.
Personal website: www.youngrim-kim.com
Field(s) of Study
- Critical data studies
- Science and technology studies (STS)
- Digital studies
- Infrastructure studies
