Doctoral Student

Daye’s research interests include illness narratives, stigma, and the construction of identity in online spaces, particularly around stigmatized and contested illness categories, conditions that are easily medicalized and become objects of public scrutiny or blame. She is particularly interested in how people narrate such illness experiences strategically across online and offline contexts, and in the everyday interactions through which the boundaries of these illness categories are constructed and contested, and how such interactions are situated within broader processes of medicalization. Her broader doctoral interests include the methodological challenges of studying anonymous and interactional data online, including emerging computational approaches to analyzing online interactions. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Seoul, Republic of Korea. Her master’s thesis, “Edited Melancholy,” examined how young adults in Korea narrate their lives with depression across online and offline spaces, drawing on digital ethnography and in-depth interviews.