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Jisoo Kim | Communication Environments, Perceptions, & Democracy
Jisoo Kim | Communication Environments, Perceptions, & Democracy
I am an incoming Assistant Professor (beginning September 2025) at the University of Washington, Seattle, and a doctoral candidate (a Helen Firstbrook Franklin Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow) in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research centers on how communication environments influence social democracy, with particular attention to multimedia dynamics and media/message effect mechanisms. I have published and am preparing to publish scholarship that examines factors that hamper a more engaging and inclusive society and how to enhance the civic culture in digital media platforms to break stereotypes and foster healthy ideas- and opinion-sharing, employing quantitative methods that include surveys, experiments, content analysis, social media listening, and computational methodologies.
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Education
Education
Ph.D. in Mass Communications
M.A. in Communication
B.A. in Mass Communications & Korean Language and Literature
Expected Spring, 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Major: Mass Communications
Minor: Educational Psychology - Quantitative Methods
2017 - 2019
Seoul National University
Major: Communication
2013 - 2017
Sogang University
Double Majors: Mass Communications, Korean Language & Literature
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
Dissertation Fellowship, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2024
The School of Journalism & Mass Communication Dissertation Fellowship, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2024 Fall
The Helen Firstbrook Franklin Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023 - 2024
Research Funding, Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
Travel Funding, Political Communication Section, American Political Science Association, 2023
Student Research Grant Competition, Conference Presentation Funds, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021 & 2023
Research Grant for Graduate Students, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
Leadership Award, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021, 2022
Top Research Paper, Crossroads Communication Conference, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021
The First Prize in Human Rights Thesis Award for Graduate Student, Human Rights Center of Seoul National University, 2018
Next Generations in Fundamental Studies Scholarship, Seoul National University, 2018
Graduated summa cum laude with Highest Honor (ranked 1st among graduates in the Department of Mass Communications), Sogang University, 2017
The Next Century Humanities Scholarship, Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF), 2016
Excellence Award for Distinguished Writing, Sogang University, 2016
Merit-Based Scholarships, Sogang University, 2013 – 2016
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