In an article by The Atlantic that discusses how aesthetics are used by young adults to create a social identity, Professor Alexander Cho shares how they can be “really important, especially for young adults in terms of creating or fashioning a self.”

Professor Cho is a media scholar, digital design researcher, critical theorist, and self-described pop culture geek. He teaches classes on Asian Americans in media as well as on gender and sexuality. His research combines critical race theory, queer theory, design thinking, and ethnography to explore how marginalized populations use social media as a tool for self-expression and social change and explores how social media contain values and power structures built into their design.

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