Jeehyun Jenny Lee, PhD
Communication
Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate
Pronouns: she/her
About
Jeehyun Jenny Lee will join the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago as a Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Scholar. She recently earned her PhD in Communication from the University of Washington, following her master’s in Media and Communication Studies and an undergraduate degree in International Studies at Korea University in South Korea.
Jeehyun’s research examines how online cultures and associated mechanisms such as algorithms and datafication shape and perpetuate inequalities along the lines of gender and race. During her PhD, she focused on how society’s minoritized members visibilize and are visibilized on social media through case studies including creator culture, social media popular culture and surveillance culture. As a Bridge to Faculty Scholar at UIC, she will continue this realm of research by focusing on minority representation in algorithmic cultures. Specifically, she plans to examine how algorithmic cultures unequally shape the experiences of society’s minoritized members and the regulatory frameworks that facilitate these processes. Ultimately, her work aims to produce knowledge that identifies, resists, and challenges inequity and harms in digital cultures.