Academic year 2008-2009

CHAIR HOLDER

Prof. Shin Dong KIM is the Director of the Institute for Communication Arts and Technology and Professor at the School of Communication of Hallym University (South Korea). Graduated in Communication at Indiana University (US), he has been successively Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College (Hanover), Macquarie University (Sydney), Ramkhamhaeng University (Bangkok), University of the Philippines,  Peking University and at Sciences Po in 2005 (Asia Chair).

Research and Teaching Areas :

1. Theories and Methods in Mass Communications and Media Studies with emphasis on theories of political economy and cultural studies
2. Global and cultural phenomena of communication technology and industry;.
3. Mobile phones, Cyberspace and Communication
4. Political impacts of new information and communication technologies (E-Democracy and E-Voting)
5. Globalization and Cultural Identity in East Asian societies
6. Television Drama and Film in Korea and East Asia (narrative theories and film studies)

Main  publications :

2005. (Ed.) When Mobile Came. Seoul: Communication Books.
2003. The shaping of new politics in the era of mobile and cyber communication: The Internet, mobile phone and political participation in Korea. In Kristof Nyiri (Ed.), Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
2002. Korea: personal meanings, or the social and cultural conditions for the diffusion of mobile communication technology in Korea. In James Katz and Mark Aakhus (Eds.), Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance. Cambridge University Press.
2000. (with Shelton Gunaratne). The media in North Korea, in Shelton Gunaratne (Ed.), Handbook of the Media in Asia. London & New Delhi: Sage.
1996. Expansion of Korean television industry and transnational capitalism, in Michael Richards and David French (Eds.) Contemporary Television: Eastern Perspective. London & Beverly Hills: Sage.

At Sciences Po, Professor Kim teaches in English a course on « Asian Cinema » (First semester) and two additional courses on his current researches (Second semester).

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Mr Stéphane Thévenet is preparing a Ph.D in Information and Communication Sciences under the supervision of Pr François Jost (University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3). After studying within the Department of Korean Language and Civilization of the University Denis Diderot (Paris 7) he has focused his attention on Korean medias and especially on South-Korean television studies. He has conducted several researches about Korean TV entertainments and is currently doing a research on South-Korean TV fiction, nowadays massively exported in Asia.
He is a member of the Center for Korean studies (EHESS/CNRS) where he takes part in the research works conducted by the “Workshop about Men/Women relations in Korea”.
He is also a member of the CEISME, Centre de Recherche sur les Images et les Sons Médiatiques (University of Sorbonne Nouvelle).