About
Soyoun
Jang
Soyoun Jang is a designer and Ph.D. student in Digital Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is advised by Jay D. Bolter in the Augmented Environments Lab. Her research bridges media studies and HCI, drawing on historical and critical media theory to examine human-computer interaction within broader cultural and technological contexts. She contributes to ecological approaches in HCI that move beyond isolated device interactions to consider complex relationships across networks of artefacts, systems, technology, human activities, and the natural environment.
Central to her work is historicism: she aims to examine continuities and ruptures between dead or obsolete technologies and emerging systems like XR and AI, situating design within longer trajectories of media evolution. Through media archaeological methods, Soyoun studies how this historical sensibility can inform alternative narratives of past and present technologies, with ongoing projects exploring how these insights might guide the design of more inclusive and sustainable futures. She also works as a design researcher with the AIAI Network at Emory University.
