Dal Yong Jin is a distinguished professor at Simon Fraser University. Jin’smajor research and teaching interests are digital platforms and digital games,globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the politicaleconomy of media and culture. Jin has published numerous books, journalarticles, and book chapters. His books include Korea’s Online GamingEmpire (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 Perspectiveson Digital Platforms (2021), and Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture:Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres (2022). Jin has alsopublished articles in scholarly journals, such as New Media and Society, theInformation Society, and Media, Culture and Society. In May 2022, Jin wasinducted as an International Communication Association (ICA) fellow. Heis the founding book series editor of Routledge Research in Digital Mediaand Culture in Asia. He has been directing the Transnational Culture andDigital Technology Lab since the summer of 2021.Benjamin M. Han is an associate professor in the Department of Entertainmentand Media Studies at the University of Georgia. His researchfocuses on global media, race and ethnicity, and the cultural intersectionsbetween Korea and Latin America. He is the author of Beyond the Blackand White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America(Rutgers University Press, 2020) and the co-editor of Korean Pop Culturebeyond Asia: Race and Reception (University of Washington Press, 2024).His forthcoming books include Reckoning with the World: South KoreanTelevision and the Latin American Imaginary and Netflix Korea and GlobalTelevision.Kirk Kanesaka is an assistant professor of Japanese and Asian studies inthe Department of World Languages and Literatures at California StateUniversity, San Bernardino. His expertise encompasses premodern Japanesepopular fiction (1603–1868) and the performing arts. Additionally, Kanesaka’sresearch interests extend to the intersections between the performingarts and contemporary media, including anime, video games, and popularculture. Beyond his academic pursuits, he holds the distinction of being thefirst non-Japanese individual to achieve professional status as a kabuki actorin the theater’s history. He also teaches Japanese classical dance and the artof Japanese kimekomi dolls.Vivien Nara is an early career researcher and research affiliate of gender andcultural studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is interested in theintersection of gender, modernity, and popular culture across Asia. She haspreviously been published in Media, Culture & Society.Jiahua Bu is a doctoral candidate in translation studies at the University ofHong Kong. He is interested in the transcultural audience engagement onAsian 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 Literatureand Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside. Herresearch areas include Ming-Ching fiction, modern Chinese literature,Chinese-languagecinema, 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 aimsto address the discursivity of literature and culture in Chinese-speakingcommunities.So Young Koo is a PhD candidate in the Literature, Media, and Cultureprogram at Florida State University. She earned her MA in literary studiesat the University of Texas at Dallas and her BA in English and French atthe University of Texas at Austin. She focuses on Asian/Asian Americanliterature and media, specifically on the transnational cross-pollinations ofliterature and media in the cultural psyche. Her dissertation looks at therelationship of twenty-first century adaptations of various Cinderella storiesin different cultures. Taking a story that repeatedly appears in various iterationsthroughout history, adaptations of Cinderella stories offer interestinginsight into how different cultures transform the familiar story.
