Critical Inquiry of Science/Technology/Medicine

과학/기술/의학에 대한 비판적 탐구

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I am interested in how our inquiry of humans play a role in shaping the world we belong to. For this, my research looks at sites of communication and media in which human values are negotiated and contested. Examples of my study include human rights and human values, digital media and surveillance, cybernetics, artificial intelligence and automation, biomedical technologies, scientific expertise and policy discourse, and trauma and psychiatric discourse.

Major research field

Critical Theory, Rhetoric of Science/Technology/Medicine

Desired field of research

Humanistic Understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Rhetorics of Affect and Neuroscience, Digital Data and Surveillance in Smart Cities

Research Keywords and Topics

human rights and human values, digital media and surveillance, cybernetics, artificial intelligence and automation, biomedical technologies, scientific expertise and policy discourse, and trauma and psychiatric discourse

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Sung, Minkyu (2019), “Triad of Colonialism, Anti-Communism, and Neo-Liberalism: Decolonizing Surveillance Studies in South Korea,” Surveillance & Society 17 (5), pp. 730-733.

Sung, Minkyu (2019), “Balloon Warriors for North Korean Human Rights Activism: A Critique of North Korean Defector-Activists’ Post-Humanitarianism,” Critical Asian Studies 51 (3), pp. 355-367.

Sung, Minkyu (2017), “The Depressed Self in Bare Thinking: A Rhetoric-of-Medicine Critique of Han Byeong-cheol’s Leistungsgesellschaft (Achievement-driven Society) (벌거벗은 사유에 놓인 우울한 자아: 한병철의 성과사회에 대한 과학-의학의 수사학적 비판),” Media and Society (언론과 사회) 27 (2), pp. 102-136. (in Korean)

국가과학기술표준분류

  • SI. 미디어/커뮤니케이션/문헌정보
  • SI01. 커뮤니케이션일반
  • SI0108. 비판 커뮤니케이션

국가기술지도분류

  • 정보-지식-지능화 사회 구현
  • 011700. 정보보호기술

녹색기술분류

  • 녹색기술관련 과제 아님
  • 녹색기술관련 과제 아님
  • 999. 녹색기술 관련과제 아님

6T분류

  • IT 분야
  • 기타 정보기술
  • 010411. 기타 정보기술