Jaeho KangPh.D., University of Cambridge, 2003
Assistant Professor of Media Studies
Profile:Concentrations: Critical Social Theory; Sociology of Media; Social Theory of Mass Culture; New Media and Political Communication
Recent Publications:Recent Publications
Walter Benjamin and the Media (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009 (forthcoming))
“Below the Surface: Siegfried Kracauer and ‘Test-Film’ Project” (co-authored), New Formations Number 61(Summer 2007): 149-160
“The Phantasmagoria of the Spectacle—Walter Benjamin and a Critique of Media Culture”, in Erik Steinskog and Dag Peterson (eds.), Walter Benjamin and Actualities of Aura (Copenhagen: NSU Press, 2005), pp.252-278.
Office Location:70 Fifth Avenue, 12th Floor
Phone Number/Extension:212-229-8903 ext. 4465
Email:kangj@newschool.eduResearch Interests:Critical Theory of Art and Technology; The Transformation of the Mediated Public Sphere; The Media Spectacle and War; Mass Media, Propaganda, and the Visibility of Power.
CV (pdf):Jaeho Kang CV 2010