Emerging media (AI/MR), Synthetic media, Affective computing, Health/risk (mis)information
Education
Ph.D., S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, NY, USA
M.A., Department of Communication and Media, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
B.A., Department of Communication and Media, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Experience
2023.02 – Current. Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication, Sungkyunkwan University
2019.08 – 2022.12. Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Creative Media, College of Communication and Information Sciences, The University of Alabama, Alabama, USA
2024.04 – Current. Editorial Board, Communication Theory
2023.02 – Current. Research Council, National Communication Association (NCA)
Journal Articles
(2024)
The Role of News Sharing in Curbing the Negative Impact of Misperceptions on Prosocial Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION.
18,
(2024)
Creating vicious information cycle: Trust, exposure, and misperception in online and offline information dynamics during health crises.
ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW.
(2024)
The interplay of virtual reality and narrative story in disaster journalism through empathy, transportation, and identification.
TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS.
(2024)
Correcting vaccine misinformation on social media: the inadvertent effects of repeating misinformation within such corrections on COVID-19 vaccine misperceptions.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY.
(2023)
AI vs. human voices: How delivery source and narrative format influence the effectiveness of persuasion messages.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION.
(2023)
The effects of authoritative source cue and argument strength of correction tweets on MMR vaccine-related misinformation credibility.
HEALTH EDUCATION JOURNAL.
(2023)
Angry content for angry people: How anger appeals facilitate health misinformation recall on social media.
MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY.
(2023)
Factbait: Emotionality of fact-checking tweets and users’ engagement during the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
DIGITAL JOURNALISM.
(2023)
Liked and shared tweets during the pandemic: the relationship between intrinsic message features and (mis)information engagement.
BEHAVIOUR & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
(2023)
User agency–based versus machine agency–based misinformation interventions: The effects of commenting and AI fact-checking labeling on attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccination.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY.
(2023)
The emotional effects of multimodal disinformation: How multimodality, issue relevance, and anxiety affect misperceptions about the flu vaccine.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY.
(2023)
Misinformation and the paradox of trust during the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S.: Pathways to risk perception and compliance behaviors.
JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH.
(2023)
The Auxiliary Role of Virtual Reality in Enhancing the Effects of Disaster News on Empathy and Fear: The Mediating Role of Presence.
CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING.
26,
4
(2022)
Prevalence of anger, engaged in sadness: engagement in misinformation, correction, and emotional tweets during mass shootings.
ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW.
46,
3
(2022)
Taking the lead in misinformation-related conversations in social media networks during a mass shooting crisis.
INTERNET RESEARCH.
(2022)
The effect of deepfake video on news credibility and corrective influence of cost-based knowledge about deepfakes.
DIGITAL JOURNALISM.
10,
3
(2022)
Unlocking conspiracy belief systems: How fact-checking label on Twitter counters conspiratorial MMR vaccine misinformation.
HEALTH COMMUNICATION.
(2021)
Something that they never said: Multimodal disinformation and source vividness in understanding the power of AI-enabled deepfake news.
MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY.
25,
4
(2021)
Social media as risk-attenuation and misinformation-amplification station: How social media interaction affects misperceptions about COVID-19.
HEALTH COMMUNICATION.
(2021)
Effects of online incivility and emotions toward in-groups on cross-cutting attention and political participation.
BEHAVIOUR & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
41,
14
Honors / Awards
2023. Top Early Career Scholar Award, D.C. Health Communication Conference (DCHC) *1st authored paper
2022. Top Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Information Systems Division. *1st authored paper
2021. Top Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Communication and Technology (CAT) Division. *1st authored paper
2020-2021. Fellow for the National Science Foundation-funded Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Fellowship Program, Natural Hazards Center
2020. 2nd place Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Political Communication Division. *1st authored paper
2018. Catherine L. Covert Research Award, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
2017. 1st place Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk (ComSHER) Division. *1st authored paper
2017. 2nd place Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Korean American Communication Association (KACA) Division. *1st authored paper
2017. Catherine L. Covert Research Award, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
2017. Top Student Paper, International Communication Association (ICA), Korean American Communication Association (KACA) Division
2017. 1st Paper Award, Broadcast Education Association (BEA), News Division