
Cherie Hu
- w1582211@my.westminster.ac.uk
- University of Westminster
- Media, Art and Design
Participant in | 2016 |
Work history | University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2014.02 – 2015.07 Teaching assistant: seminar leader of Master program module MS7003 Approaches to audience studies University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2014.03 – 2014.04 Research assistant: assisted qualitative data analysis (focus groups) |
Study history | University of Westminster, London, UK 2016.01 – expected Doctor of Philosophy, CAMRI (The Communication and Media Research Institute) University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2014.01 – 2015.07 Doctor of Philosophy, Media and Communication Korea University, Seoul, Korea 2010.07-2011.03 Korean language program, Korean language 2011.03-2013.07 Master of Arts, Journalism & Mass communications |
Phd Projects
2016 | Moving to the West: Media, cultural transnationalism and identity -- Cultural dynamics of Korean women in diasporaExisting studies on South Korea frame “women on the move” in two ways: either as an undesired effect of Western cultural influence or as a consequence of “liberating” from social gender inequalities. My research project questions these simplistic explanations. I would like to show that the meaning and practices of “leaving the country” represent a process of negotiation among interpretations of media productions, multiple discourses concerning “being international” as “cultural grace” (Cheah 1998; Kim 2011) to mark social status and performing identities. All these considerations frequently intersect with and occasionally contradict each other. I argue that foregrounding the Korean transnationalism as only a culture imperialist practice is a key weakness of the existing literature and produces only partial accounts of media and cultural practices. |