Sam Han

Sam Han (BA, Wesleyan University, USA; PhD The Graduate Center, City University of New York) is a Korean-born, American interdisciplinary social scientist, who works in the areas of social and cultural theory, new media, religion, globalization, and race/ethnicity. He is currently Instructional Technology Fellow of the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. As of July 2012, he will be Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is author of Web 2.0 (Routledge, 2011), Navigating Technomedia: Caught in the Web (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and editor (with Daniel Chaffee) of The Race of Time:The Charles Lemert Reader (Paradigm Publishers, 2009). He is currently at work on four projects related to the study of new media, religion and digital culture: (1) The dynamic of religion and digital technology in contemporary American Christianity (2) Digital-diasporic religious practices in Asia (3) Death and mourning in the digital age (4) The religious discourse of technology as sinful.