Do Own (Donna) Kim is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago's Department of Communication. She studies everyday, playful digital cultures and mediated social interactions. Her work examines boundary-crossing new media practices, such as around games, virtual influencers, and Korean digital feminism, with a focus on hybrid contexts, norms, and categories, and the notion of being human/artificial. Her work can be found in journals such as New Media & Society, International Journal of Communication, and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. Donna received her PhD in Communication from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and is a Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies fellow alum.
