Jeehyun Jenny Lee
@jeehyunjennylee.bsky.social
Assistant professor @UIC Department of Communication. Researching and teaching digital culture, AI, creator culture and representation ✨
@yenalee.bsky.social came to my Digital Influencer class today and gave a fascinating talk on political content creators’ complex experiences/negotiations in what she conceptualizes as our post-networked era. Thank you for coming today and I am really excited to see this book project develop! 💯🎉🙏🏻
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
@yenalee.bsky.social came to my Digital Influencer class today and gave a fascinating talk on political content creators’ complex experiences/negotiations in what she conceptualizes as our post-networked era. Thank you for coming today and I am really excited to see this book project develop! 💯🎉🙏🏻
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Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
CDCS Colloquium: Yena Lee
Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era
www.asc.upenn.edu
September 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
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Sharing a snapshot of a project I’ve been working on w/collaborators Zoe West & Sanjay Pinto at Cornell ILR School, looking at genAI in the fashion modeling industry. AI-generated models have been turning up a lot - H&M, a Guess ad, Luigi(!) in Shein’s catalog… datasociety.net/points/fashi...
Fashion’s Data Doubles
In their research on how AI is reshaping modeling work, Alexandra Mateescu, Zoë West, and Sanjay Pinto find a situation ripe for labor exploitation.
datasociety.net
September 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sharing a snapshot of a project I’ve been working on w/collaborators Zoe West & Sanjay Pinto at Cornell ILR School, looking at genAI in the fashion modeling industry. AI-generated models have been turning up a lot - H&M, a Guess ad, Luigi(!) in Shein’s catalog… datasociety.net/points/fashi...
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It's syllabus season & I'm shamelessly plugging some of my work for your consideration.
If you teach:
Communication
Media studies
Digital sociology
Media anthropology
Youth digital cultures
so courses at the intersection of media, technology & society, include in readings...
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If you teach:
Communication
Media studies
Digital sociology
Media anthropology
Youth digital cultures
so courses at the intersection of media, technology & society, include in readings...
1/
August 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It's syllabus season & I'm shamelessly plugging some of my work for your consideration.
If you teach:
Communication
Media studies
Digital sociology
Media anthropology
Youth digital cultures
so courses at the intersection of media, technology & society, include in readings...
1/
If you teach:
Communication
Media studies
Digital sociology
Media anthropology
Youth digital cultures
so courses at the intersection of media, technology & society, include in readings...
1/
New study in ICS! Through interviews with transnational Korean women content creators who produce content about their Korean identity and culture, my study takes an intersectional and transnational lens to understand their complex experiences with algorithmic visibility towards global audiences 🌏
#OutNow in #iCS
Transnational Korean women content creators navigate algorithmic visibility that exposes them to harm. This article examines their strategies for managing unwanted attention and reclaiming agency on global platforms.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Transnational Korean women content creators navigate algorithmic visibility that exposes them to harm. This article examines their strategies for managing unwanted attention and reclaiming agency on global platforms.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Managing unwanted visibility: how transnational Korean women content creators experience and manage harmful algorithmic visibility on global social media
In the creator economy, algorithmic visibility is widely regarded as an ideal and crucial for content creators’ success. In this context, many studies have focused on social media content creators’...
doi.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New study in ICS! Through interviews with transnational Korean women content creators who produce content about their Korean identity and culture, my study takes an intersectional and transnational lens to understand their complex experiences with algorithmic visibility towards global audiences 🌏
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⚠️New Publication Alert⚠️ My article "Standing in as a Famed, Diverse Virtual Influencer : Proxy Labor and Identity Construction in Computer-Generated Influencer Production" is out, as part of the Velvet Light Trap Fall 2024 Special Issue on Creative Labor and Precacity. doi.org/10.7560/VLT9...
Standing In as a Famed, Diverse Virtual Influencer: Proxy Labor and Identity Construction in Computer-Generated Influencer Production | The Velvet Light Trap
This article examines issues of labor and representation in computer-generated influencer production. I explore the implications of this production for behind-the-scene workers and identity constructi...
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
⚠️New Publication Alert⚠️ My article "Standing in as a Famed, Diverse Virtual Influencer : Proxy Labor and Identity Construction in Computer-Generated Influencer Production" is out, as part of the Velvet Light Trap Fall 2024 Special Issue on Creative Labor and Precacity. doi.org/10.7560/VLT9...
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I spoke with The Hill about why influencer courses are necessary in college curricula to meet the demands of a changing digital media and entertainment workforce. Very excited to teach my class on this at the University of Alabama again next semester!
thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com/homenews/edu...
Social media influencer is a growing career choice. Colleges have noticed
Have influencers on social media created a new career field worthy of formal education? A growing number of universities are looking at classes and majors aimed at giving influencers the skil…
thehill.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:18 PM
I spoke with The Hill about why influencer courses are necessary in college curricula to meet the demands of a changing digital media and entertainment workforce. Very excited to teach my class on this at the University of Alabama again next semester!
thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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polishing up slides for #NCA2024. come watch me talk about algorithmic ableism, content moderation, and visibility on Friday 11/22 at 8 AM!
November 19, 2024 at 2:23 AM
polishing up slides for #NCA2024. come watch me talk about algorithmic ableism, content moderation, and visibility on Friday 11/22 at 8 AM!