So happy to meet you all (again for most of you)! This is my hands-on semester where all of my courses involve getting my hands dirty with some type of tech/code stuff, and I already feel emotionally safer knowing that I will be around you folks while I suffer.

I have two things in mind right now. Subject-wise, my main interest is the history of internet and its relation with the shaping of contemporary society, and how to look at various dimensions including but not limited to education/knowledge production, gender, governmental policies, disasters, etc. while navigating both in the U.S. and South Korean context.

The other thing I am pondering about is the increasingly popular field of machine learning, and my relation with that field. While I do sense industrial hype being built around it, the increasing access to the computational methods seems to offer some educational benefit and I would be happy to think about and work on ways to harness it in humanities research. I’ll try to elaborate on this in another post.