Media Studies
Benoit Symposium: From Pyongyang to Mars: Sci-fi, Genre, and Literary Value in North Korea
History and the past are subjects close to North Korea’s institutional and cultural heart, but what about cultural expressions of the potential future. In this essay, Benoit Berthelier explores the science fiction output of Pyongyang.
Brave Dissenters and the Silent Majority: Lankov, Yurchak, and the Fading USSR
Professor Andrei Lankov returns with native insight into the slow, steady decline of Brezhnev’s USSR, set against the backdrop of a 2005 book by Alexei Yurchak, “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More.”
South Korea Dying in the Heat: Reading the North Korean Media Machine
Christopher Green pauses to consider the value of weather to the North Korean state media discourse, and finds that uncontrollable inclemency is a key trope in sustaining the ruling domain consensus.
All Eyes on North Korea: Excavating Twitter Responses to North Korea
In the new age of academia, 140-characters can drive discourse, argues Mycal Ford in a piece about the scholarly dialogue on North Korea taking place on Twitter. In this essay, Ford mines the Twitter feeds of five high profile North Korea-watchers.
The Significance of the Unusual: Removing “Reformist” Illusions in Reading North Korean Media
Shirley Lee arrives with a unique reading of Kim Jong-un and Pak Pong-ju’s visits to non-military sites in the DPRK, warning that they have very little to do with ostensible reforms.
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