xiiContributorsKatrien Jacobs is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of
Hong Kong. She has lectured and published widely about sexuality and gender in and around
digi tal media, contemporary arts, and media activism. Her books People’s Pornography: Sex and
Surveillance on the Chinese Internet and The Afterglow of Women’s Pornography in Post-Digital China
investigate new trends in sexually explicit media and surveillance culture in the social media age.
Miaoju Jian is Professor of Communication at National Chung Cheng University in Chiayi,
Taiwan. Her journal publications include “Negotiating Paternalism and the Enterprising Self
in Taiwanese Talent Shows” in Media Australia International, and “‘Democratic Entertainment’
Commodity and Unpaid Labor of Reality TV: A Preliminary Analysis of China’s Supergirl” in
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.
Soyoung Kim is Director of Trans Asia Screen Culture Institute, Seoul. She is author of
“Cartography of Catastrophe: Pre-Colonial Surveys, Post-Colonial Vampires, and the Plight
of Korean Modernity” (Journal of Korean Studies) , Specters of Modernity: Fantastic Korean
Cinema (in Korean), and co-editor of Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of
Social Space (2010) with Chris Berry and Lynn Spigel. She is also a filmmaker and the founding
programmer of the Jeonju International Film Festival and Seoul Women’s Film Festival.
Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France.
She was previously at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had
taught since 2004, after completing her Ph.D. at the University of London, Goldsmiths College.
Her books include Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea and Transnational Migration, Media
and Identity of Asian Women.
Love Kindstrand is a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of
Chicago, US, and currently a visiting scholar at Sophia University’s Institute of Comparative
Culture. She is interested in constellations of subjectivity and totality, toxicity, and sovereignty in
contemporary Japanese counterpublics.
Jocelyn Yi-Hsuan Lai is receiving her Ph.D. in media and cultural industry studies from King’s
College London in 2016. Her thesis examines Taiwanese TV drama crossovers and representa-
tions of globalized Taiwanese in East Asia. She published an article on how the Taiwanese TV
drama industry interacted with mainland China during 1989–1992 in the Taiwan-based journal,
Mass Communication Research.
Fran Martin is Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of
Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on television, film, literature, Internet culture, and
other forms of cultural production in the contemporary transnational Chinese cultural sphere,
with a specialization in representations and cultures of gender and sexuality. Recent publications
include Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia, co-authored with Tania Lewis and
Wanning Sun.
Keiko Nishimura is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is interested in Cultural Studies to investigate the inter-
section of technology and culture, especially on robotics and artificial intelligence in Japan,
and how different actors’ conceptualization of “affect” may intertwine and produce conflicting
notions of futures.