Se Jung Kim

Doctoral Supervisor: T. Makana Chock

Education:

B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication: Dongguk University, Media & Communication Department, Seoul, South Korea.

M.A. in Media Studies: Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse, NY, USA

M.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication: Dongguk University, Media & Communication Department, Seoul, South Korea.

Areas of Research:

Media Psychology, Cognitive Information Processing & Psychological/Behavioral impacts, HCI/Immersive Media (Mixed Reality, Avatar, Smart speaker, Game Study), Risk/Health Communication (Risk perception, Pandemic, Preventive behavior), News/Journalism (Fake news, Social Media, Credibility & Perception)

Publications/Presentations:

Kim, S. J., Lee, S.Y., Lee, H., Yao, S., and Chock, T. M. (2021). How news usage and the perceived credibility of government news sources contributed to engaging in preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: In the context of the Protection Motivation Theory. Presented at KACA-AEJMC of the 2021 Annual AEJMC Conference, Virtual Conference (Student top paper award).

Kim, S. J., Lee, H., Yao. S., & Chock, T. M. (2020). The Effects of Virtual Reality on the Information Processing of Attitude Change and its Behavioral Intention: in the Context of Gun Control. Presented at Information Systems Division of the 2020 Annual ICA Conference, Gold Coast, Australia/Virtual Conference.

Kim, S. J. & Chock, T. M. (2020). How does Fake News Spread out on Social Media?: In the context of Dual-Process with Credibility, Cognitive Appraisal to Threat, and Corrective Action. Presented at Information Systems Division of the 2020 Annual ICA Conference, Gold Coast, Australia/Virtual Conference.

Bio:

Se Jung Kim, a Ph.D. candidate at the Newhouse School, has focused his research around the topic of media psychology including cognitive information processing and psychological/behavioral impacts in different formats of emerging media. Under the umbrella of media psychology, he studies HCI/Immersive media (Mixed Reality, Avatar, Smart speaker, Game Study), Risk/Health Communication (Risk perception, Pandemic, Preventive behavior), and News/Journalism (Fake news, Social Media, Credibility & Perception). Se Jung also specialized in psychophysiological methods and communication research. He is currently involved with a research grant project from Facebook Reality Labs with advisor, Dr. Makana Chock.

Kim’s papers have appeared in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Computers in Human Behavior, and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. He regularly attends and presents his works at the annual conferences of the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and the National Communication Association (NCA) and has won student top paper awards. He holds a M.A. and Certificate Advanced Study (CAS) in Data Science from Syracuse University and earned his B.A. and M.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication from Dongguk University in South Korea.