Su Young Choi
Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies
I believe that student learning in communication can be metaphorically grasped as road-building. Both can generate connection, interaction, and transformation. Building a road enables novel forms of transportation and encounters, facilitating the mutation of connected places according to what is communicated. As an instructor, I aim to create my class as a collaborative learning community wherein rich dialogues help all students grow as self-reflexive thinkers and agents of positive social change.
- PhD, Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2017
- MA, Communication, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2010
- BA, Korean history, Seoul National University, South Korea, 2004
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Biography
Su Young Choi is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Stetson University. She examines media and communication in the context of a social movement by employing qualitative methods like ethnography, in-depth interviews, and textual and discourse analysis. She is interested in understanding the relationship between cultural transformation and socio-environmental inequality and injustice. She is currently engaging in a research project about energy consumer in the context of East Asia.
More About Su Young Choi
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental Communication
- Critical Media and Cultural Studies
- Korean Studies
Course Sampling
- Environmental Communication
- Qualitative Theory and Methodology
- Media Theory and Analysis
- Communication and Technology
- Intercultural Communication
- Korean Popular Culture
- Environmental Justice
- Climate Change and Digital Environmental Humanities
- Energy and Food Activism in East Asia
- Choi, S. Y. (2023). Multispecies Justice Beyond Animal Rights: Saebyeogi Sanctuary on Instagram. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 9(2), 62-73.
- Choi, S. Y. (2023). Voluntary Outsiders in Their Anthropocentric Nation: Korean Vegan Youth Navigating between National Ruins and Transnational Mobilities. The Journal of Korean Studies, 28(1), 139-162.
- Choi, S. Y. (2021). Veganism Will Rise like Feminism: The Porous Contestation of Intersectional Vegan Feminism against the Exclusive Politics of Korean Popular Feminism. In J. Rhee, C. Nagayama, & E. Li (Eds.), Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias: Toward a New Dialogue across Boundaries (pp. 105-124). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
- Choi, S. Y. (2021). Recognition for Resistance: Gifting, Social Media, and the Politics of Reciprocity in South Korean Energy Activism. Media, Culture & Society, 43(7), 1247-1262. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211022715
- Choi, S. Y. (2021). Resilient Peripheralisation through Authoritarian Communication against Energy Democracy in South Korea. Environmental Politics, 30(6), 1002-1023.
- Choi, S. Y. (2019). Protesting Grandmothers as Spatial Resistance in the Neo-developmental Era. Korean Studies, 43, 40-67.
- Choi, S. Y. & Cho, Y. (2017). Generating Counter-Public Spheres through Social Media: Two Social Movements in Neoliberalized South Korea. Javnost - The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, 24(1), 1-19.