🚨ISSUE 002 IS ON THE WAY! 🚨
Ligia Lemos (@ligiaprezialemos.bsky.social) and Mariana Marques De Lima dive into the intersections of social media activism, Brazilian fanbases, and “Love In The Big City.” You won’t want to miss this one!
#mentmagazine #kdramas #LoveInTheBigCity
we’ve been hard at work to bring you Issue 02~! stay tuned for more critical and creative works coming soon from MENT ✨✨✨
Green browser popup window over image by Amber Lee. Adapted from screenshots of ‘Answer Me 1997,’ 2012; ‘Be Melodramatic,’ 2019; and ‘Lovely Runner,’ 2024. On popup window is a quote from MENT: Why Now, Why Ever? in MENT Issue 001
How do fans influence media beyond consumption? Andrea Acosta & Yin Yuan explore the power of fandom and scholarship shaped by love in MENT Issue 001.
Read now: www.mentmagazine.com/issue001/fro...
#ment #kpop #kdramas
Teal browser popup window over image by Amber Lee. Text on window reads, “I began to question the primacy of the Korean who is native, implicit in the notion of the ‘native tourist...’ I had been able to move through them in the presence of my grandparents’ memories and, unexpectedly, my own. In the process, I began to see myself more clearly as no longer a native tourist but as a diasporic writer of memory and history, sifting the overlaps between these eternally evolving productions.”
In the shadow of Hallyu, what complicated feelings of home, memory, and identity might a K-drama and film set provoke for diasporic writers?
Follow Julie Moon’s journey in “Notes From a Native Tourist,” published in MENT Issue 001: www.mentmagazine.com/issue001/nat...
#ment #kdrama #hallyu
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What do Hyunjin and fan edits reveal about virtual connection, nostalgia, and labor?
Watch @vvtobbi.bsky.social explore these themes in their video art piece, “On Hyunjin, Labor, and Memory,” in MENT Magazine Issue 001.
Are you a K-pop or Hyunjin fan? Go to mentmagazine.com to watch @vvtobbi.bsky.social’s full video art piece. 📹✨
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#kpop #hyunjin #straykids
Image of HYBE protest with web browser overlay featuring an excerpt from the interview with ARMY for Palestine
Where fandom and activism intersect, ARMY For Palestine is using their passion for BTS to drive meaningful change.
Read our in-depth conversation in “For Our People: An Interview with ARMY For Palestine” in MENT Issue 001: www.mentmagazine.com/issue001/for...
#kpop #bts #army
very excited to be speaking about my work + topics related to intergenerational fandom (which K-pop fandom is!) at the USC fan salon today ✨
can certainly post a version of it when it's figured out!
designing my kpop and digital culture syllabus and considering a whole week on the labor disputes + violations of 2024
Super excited that this work is finally out in the world! Published for #cscw2024, Together in the Mikrokosmos: Exploring Disabled Embodied Experiences in Designed Sociotechnical Worlds, which I co-authored with an amazing team. #BTSARMY #a11y
See the full paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
but before I go back, I'll leave my most recent piece of writing on ARMY For Palestine here~
available to read at MENT Magazine, and for a slightly longer version, see positionspolitics at the link below:
positionspolitics.org/andrea-acost...
(if the new ateez album this week is over there, then unfortunately so am I)
tentatively connecting here, but also hyperaware that the official k-pop accounts are all still on the old site and thus keep my main newsfeed with them 🥲
