Dr. Kim is an associate professor of Communication at Hallym University, Korea. He is also serving as the director of the Institute for Communication Arts & Technology (iCat) and Center for Electronic Democracy (iCat-CED). Dr. Kim’s research and teaching interests are related to information and communication technologies' impact on society and politics. He has also interested in research on mobile communication, media policy, and transnational media culture in one way or another. Dr. Kim’s name appeared in chapters in Contemporary Television (Sage 1996), Handbook of the Media in Asia (Sage 2002), Perpetual Contact (2002 Cambridge), Mobile Democracy (Passagen Verlag 2003), and so on. Dr. Kim holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communications from Indiana University.
Shin Dong Kim is a professor of communication at Hallym University, Korea, and is also serving as the director of the Institute for Communication Arts & Technology (iCat). His research and teaching interests in the last few years have covered the areas of mobile communication, transnational media consumption, media and politics, and culture technology. He has held visiting professorships at Dartmouth College, USA; Macquarie University, Australia; Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand; University of the Philippines, and Sciences Po, France. Kim has published chapters in Contemporary Television (Sage 1996), Handbook of the Media in Asia (Sage 2002), Perpetual Contact (2002 Cambridge), Mobile Democracy (Passagen Verlag 2003), and so on. He is a founding member of the Asia's Future Initiative (AFI) http://www.asiafuture.org/ where he relates his research and education with global cultural programs. His research institute, the iCat, is now expanding research areas from media technology and transnational culture to teledemocracy and media education. The iCat is wide open to all scholars and students for exchanges, visits, and research cooperation.
http://www.hallym.ac.kr/~icat/
E: kimsd@hallym.ac.kr
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April 24, 2007