Yoonmo Sang
Yoonmo Sang (PhD, The University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor at Sungshin Women's University in Seoul, South Korea. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in in the Faculty of Arts & Design at the University of Canberra where he was a member of the News & Media Research Centre. Before joining the University of Canberra, he taught as an assistant professor at Howard University. His primary research interests center on the intersection of new media technologies and the law, focusing on how socio-cultural and technological changes advantage and/or disadvantage different stakeholders.
He is interested in critically exploring the socio-legal and policy dimensions of digital culture. He is currently working on the following projects: 1) devising an optimal regulatory model for combating fake news on digital platforms, 2) young people’s perceptions of and experience with image-based abuse, 3) online news users’ changing news consumption habits including a growing popularity of podcasts, and 4) copyright-related issues including fair use practices among creators.
He brings his international perspective and cross-cultural research experience to the study of the intersection of new communication technologies and the law.
He is on the editorial boards of four journals: Digital Journalism, Social Media + Society, Communication Law Review, and the Journal of Media Law, Ethics, and Policy Research, a journal of the Korean Society for Media Law, Ethics, and Policy Research. His previous positions include Research Associate at the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy, Doctoral Research Assistant at the Technology and Information Policy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and Business Banker at Shinhan Bank in South Korea.
He is interested in critically exploring the socio-legal and policy dimensions of digital culture. He is currently working on the following projects: 1) devising an optimal regulatory model for combating fake news on digital platforms, 2) young people’s perceptions of and experience with image-based abuse, 3) online news users’ changing news consumption habits including a growing popularity of podcasts, and 4) copyright-related issues including fair use practices among creators.
He brings his international perspective and cross-cultural research experience to the study of the intersection of new communication technologies and the law.
He is on the editorial boards of four journals: Digital Journalism, Social Media + Society, Communication Law Review, and the Journal of Media Law, Ethics, and Policy Research, a journal of the Korean Society for Media Law, Ethics, and Policy Research. His previous positions include Research Associate at the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy, Doctoral Research Assistant at the Technology and Information Policy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and Business Banker at Shinhan Bank in South Korea.
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