Global Storytelling: Special Issue 4.2 Special Issue Topic: Netflix and East Asian Audiovisual Culture, Winter 2024: Vol 4

Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images serves as an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, media, and technology of the moving image. This special issue (Vol 4.2) tackles the topic of Netflix and East Asian Audiovisual Culture.

Dal Yong Jin is a distinguished professor at Simon Fraser University. Jin’s
major research and teaching interests are digital platforms and digital games,
globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political
economy of media and culture. Jin has published numerous books, journal
articles, and book chapters. His books include Korea’s Online Gaming
Empire (2010), Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture (2015),
New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media
(2016), Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Production: Critical Perspectives
on Digital Platforms (2021), and Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture:
Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres (2022). Jin has also
published articles in scholarly journals, such as New Media and Society, the
Information Society, and Media, Culture and Society. In May 2022, Jin was
inducted as an International Communication Association (ICA) fellow. He
is the founding book series editor of Routledge Research in Digital Media
and Culture in Asia. He has been directing the Transnational Culture and
Digital Technology Lab since the summer of 2021.

Benjamin M. Han is an associate professor in the Department of Entertainment
and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. His research
focuses on global media, race and ethnicity, and the cultural intersections
between Korea and Latin America. He is the author of Beyond the Black
and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America
(Rutgers University Press, 2020) and the co-editor of Korean Pop Culture
beyond Asia: Race and Reception (University of Washington Press, 2024).
His forthcoming books include Reckoning with the World: South Korean
Television and the Latin American Imaginary and Netflix Korea and Global
Television.

Kirk Kanesaka is an assistant professor of Japanese and Asian studies in
the Department of World Languages and Literatures at California State
University, San Bernardino. His expertise encompasses premodern Japanese
popular fiction (1603–1868) and the performing arts. Additionally, Kanesaka’s
research interests extend to the intersections between the performing
arts and contemporary media, including anime, video games, and popular
culture. Beyond his academic pursuits, he holds the distinction of being the
first non-Japanese individual to achieve professional status as a kabuki actor
in the theater’s history. He also teaches Japanese classical dance and the art
of Japanese kimekomi dolls.

Vivien Nara is an early career researcher and research affiliate of gender and
cultural studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is interested in the
intersection of gender, modernity, and popular culture across Asia. She has
previously been published in Media, Culture & Society.

Jiahua Bu is a doctoral candidate in translation studies at the University of
Hong Kong. He is interested in the transcultural audience engagement on
Asian social media platforms. His doctoral thesis explores fandom culture,
translational remixes, and participatory digital ethnography.

Yixin Xu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature
and Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside. Her
research areas include Ming-Ching fiction, modern Chinese literature,
Chinese-language
cinema, and contemporary Chinese popular culture,
with a focus on feminist studies, emotion studies, and medical humanities.
With both intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches, Yixin’s work aims
to address the discursivity of literature and culture in Chinese-speaking
communities.

So Young Koo is a PhD candidate in the Literature, Media, and Culture
program at Florida State University. She earned her MA in literary studies
at the University of Texas at Dallas and her BA in English and French at
the University of Texas at Austin. She focuses on Asian/Asian American
literature and media, specifically on the transnational cross-pollinations of
literature and media in the cultural psyche. Her dissertation looks at the
relationship of twenty-first century adaptations of various Cinderella stories
in different cultures. Taking a story that repeatedly appears in various iterations
throughout history, adaptations of Cinderella stories offer interesting
insight into how different cultures transform the familiar story.