While the world has been familiar with online video for a while now, “screencasting” is a relatively new term in our technological vocabulary. Screencasting is similar to a screenshot, but instead of having static images, it’s a video of what is happening on your computer screen. This can be a powerful tool to teach people…
Category: The Secret Category
This is for all the things we want to keep on this wordpress site, but we don’t necessarily want other people to SEE it on our main site ^^;
More Than Passion: Kpop and the Everyday Work of Digital Humanities
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, M.S.L.S University of South Carolina Lancaster When you click the “KPK Members” link on our site, our bios’ upbeat language states we have certain skill sets that match well with the work of KPK, and you know that we are Kpop fans. I think our identification as Kpop fans is one of…
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick discusses Hallyu scholar(ship) mining at Academia.edu
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick was interviewed about how she uses the scholarly social networking site, Academia.edu, as a tool for promotion and tenure – and how she uses it as a tool to locate scholars working on Korean popular culture: “By cultivating an international following on Academia.edu, Kendrick has developed networks that span across disciplines and…
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT: 2013 Association of College & Research Libraries
Guiding the Wave: Academic Librarians’ Practical Role in Digital Humanities 2013 Association of College and Research Libraries Conference Indianapolis, IN • April 10-13, 2013 Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, M.S.L.S. • University of South Carolina Lancaster This engaging poster session focuses on LIS-centric projects that support the mission of a digital cultural study focusing on the international development of Korean…
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT: 2013 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
Hybrid Hallyu: The American Soul Tradition In K-pop 2013 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Washington, DC • March 27-30, 2012 Crystal S. Anderson, Ph.D. • Elon University Hallyu (Korean wave), a Korean cultural movement directed towards global audiences, represents hybrid and transnational sensibilities. Ever since the debut of Seo Taiji and the Boys in 1992, Korean popular…
KPK Presents at KPOPCON13!
KPK: Kpop Kollective will once again bring the knowledge at KPOPCON’13 February 16-17 at UC Berkeley! BEYOND THE BIAS: WHAT K-POP FANS REALLY THINK AND DO Crystal S. Anderson, Ph.D., KPK: Kpop Kollective Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, M.S.L.S., KPK: Kpop Kollective Bianca Flowers, KPK: Kpop Kollective Do you troll the Internet for pictures of your bias?…
For Your Reading Pleasure: A Hallyu Bibliography Part 1: BOOKS
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, M.S.L.S. University of South Carolina Lancaster Earlier this year I introduced KPK readers to the work I’m doing to collate and annotate as much scholarly information about Hallyu as I can. Without further ado, I share with you the first section, focusing on books covering Hallyu. Subsequent parts of this series will…
Crystal Anderson Writes for the Popular Romance Project
Crystal Anderson writes on romance gone awry in “Where Is The Love?” for the Popular Romance Project: “Korean television dramas (K-dramas) rarely present a straightforward romance. They are often driven by convoluted courtships where likeable couples spend the series overcoming obstacles in order to eventually embark on an uplifting relationship. . . . Not every K-drama…
KPK 2.0: The Next Generation of K-pop Profiles
As you know, KPK is dedicated to collecting information about Hallyu-era K-pop. To that end, we are in the process of creating enhanced profiles of Kpop artists and groups, with even more information! KPOPIANA is a collaborative digital humanities project that aims to collect and organize information about Korean popular music of the Hallyu era (1992-present)….
K-pop Meets DigiWriMo: The Beginning
So, like a lemming, I’ve signed up to do DigiWriMo, a challenge to write a ridiculous number of words in the month of November online, or complete some similarly Herculean task.I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to jumpstart my iFans digital project. iFans: Mapping K-pop’s International Fandoms, examines K-pop fan behavior and attitudes.
KPK: Kpop Kollective 