Jenny Korn

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Feb 4

Written By Selly Djap

Fellow, Founder & Coordinator, Race & Media Group, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Jenny Korn is a feminist activist of color for social justice and scholar of race and gender in mass media and online communication.

Currently, Korn is a Fellow and the Founder and Coordinator of the Race and Media Working Group at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. An award-winning author with numerous publications, she has given 100+ talks as invited keynote presentations, university guest lectures, interactive community education, and refereed conference presentations. As a public scholar, Korn has been quoted in interviews with CNN, Colorlines, Fox News, National Public Radio (NPR), South by Southwest (SXSW), U.S. News and World Report, and more.

While at Harvard, Korn will examine identity and representation through online and in-person discourses, focusing on how popular concepts of race and gender are influenced by digital interactions, political protest, and institutional kyriarchy.

Award

Nov 2019 • Received Outstanding Book Chapter Award from NCA’s African American Communication and Culture Division

Selected Publication

Featured

Peer-reviewed

The president was Black, y’all

Peer-reviewed

Presidential humor, neo-racism, and the social construction of blackness and whiteness

Jenny Korn

Edited by Heather E. Harris

May 2019 • Neo-race realities in the Obama era 109-130 • SUNY Press

Peer-reviewed

Equitable Cities Instead of Smart Cities

Peer-reviewed

Race and Racism within the Race for Smart Cities

Jenny Korn

Dec 2018 • Journal of Civic Media 1(1):34-45

Peer-reviewed

Expecting Penises in Chatroulette

Peer-reviewed

Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Anonymous Online Spaces

Jenny Korn

Apr 2017 • Popular Communication 15(2):95-109

Peer-reviewed

Othering and fear: cultural values and Hiro’s race in Thomas & Friends’ Hero of the Rails

Peer-reviewed

Maggie Griffith Williams and Jenny Korn

Jun 2016 • Journal of Communication Inquiry 41(1):22-41

Peer-reviewed

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Feminist Approaches to Social Media Research

Peer-reviewed

History, Activism, and Values

Jenny Korn and Tamara Kneese

Jul 2015 • Feminist Media Studies 15(4):707-710

Peer-reviewed

Digital Revelations from “I Can’t Breathe”

Peer-reviewed

Tennille Allen, Kellie Carter Jackson, Colin Dayan, Jenny Korn, Danielle Legros Georges, Charles Nfon, Rae Paris, Nicholas Rinehart, Metta Sáma, Renée Stout, Kangsen Feka Wakai and Afaa Michael Weaver

May 2015 • Transition 117:1-15 • Indiana University Press

Peer-reviewed