Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Gibson, Jenna and Felicia Istad. 2025. “Toward a Political Model of Soft Power: An Empirical Evaluation of South Korean Foreign Policy.” Asian Survey, June.
Available online:  https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2025.2470882

Istad, Felicia, Jenna Gibson, and Nathaniel Ming Curran. 2022. “More or Less a Foreigner: Domestic Reception of Multinational K-Pop Groups.” Asian Journal of Social Science, June. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajss.2022.05.006.

Curran, Nathaniel Ming, and Jenna Gibson (equal authorship). “Conflict and Responsibility: Content Analysis of American News Media Organizations’ Framing of North Korea.” Media, War & Conflict, 2019. Available online: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750635219839203

Works in Progress

“Towards a Political Model of Soft Power: State Diplomacy
and Popular Culture in the Digital Age” (with Felicia Istad, under review)

“What’s in a Name: Strategic Use of Honorifics as a Rhetorical Signal Between Adversaries” (with Elsy Gonzalez, submitted)

Other Academic Publications

Gibson, Jenna and Herman, Tamar. “Entertainment and Equity in the Era of ‘Ontact.'” in South Korean Popular Culture in the Global Context: Beyond the Fandom. Sojin Lim, ed., Routledge. (2023)

Gibson, Jenna and Curran, Nathaniel Ming. “Rocket Man and the Rocket Nation: Visual Portrayals of North Korea.” in Diplomatic and Mediated Arguments in the North Korean Crisis: Engaging the Hermit Kingdom. Thomas Hollihan, ed., Palgrave Macmillan (2021).

Gibson, Jenna. “YouTube Diplomacy: A Sentiment Analysis of Global Reactions to the 2018 Concert in Pyongyang.” in Collection of Essays on Korea’s Public Diplomacy: Possibilities and Future Outlook. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Korea. (2020). Available online: http://www.mofa.go.kr/www/brd/m_22721/view.do?seq=4416&srchFr=&srchTo=&srchWord=&srchTp=&multi_itm_seq=0&itm_seq_1=0&itm_seq_2=0&company_cd=&company_nm=&page=1

Gibson, Jenna. “How K-pop Broke the West: An Analysis of Western Media Coverage from 2009 to 2019.” The International Journal of Korean Studies XXII, no. 2 (July 29, 2019): 24-46. Available online: http://icks.org/n/bbs/content.php?co_id=FALL_WINTER_2018.