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HyeRyoung Ok
Postdoctoral Researcher
okh@uci.edu

HyeRyoung Ok is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, working for the “Digital Media and Learning” studio. As a cultural studies scholar, HyeRyoung looks at newly emerging visual digital culture from interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on new media, mobile media culture, global media, and East Asian cinema and media. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Screens on the Move: Media Convergence and Mobile Culture in Korea” explores the aesthetics and the cultural implications of newly appeared “mobile screens,” focusing on the development and the dissemination of Korean mobile phone multimedia content service and Mobile TV. Before coming to DML studio, HyeRyoung has joined various research projects such as “The Meaning of New Networked Age” at the Annenberg Center for Communication in University of Southern California (2006) and “Portable Media Players Study” at the Entertainment Technology Center in USC (2005). She is also participating in the “Korea Town: Characterizing the Global City,” a database documentary on development, at The Labyrinth Project in USC. Currently, at the DMLstudio at UCHRI, HyeRyoung's work involves a literature review of mobile phone, gaming, Internet use and digital media production in Korea. HyeRyoung received her Doctoral degree from Critical Studies at School of Cinematic Arts, USC in 2008, and her Masters degrees from Cinema Studies in New York University in 2002 and from Aesthetics in Seoul National University in 2000.