Research

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Duan, Z., Shao, A., Hu, Y., Lee, H., Liao, X., Suh, Y. J., Kim, J., Yang, K., Chen, K., & Yang, S. (2025). Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Latent Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Appeals. Political Analysis, 1-21. doi:10.1017/pan.2025.6

Kim, J., Zhang, Y., & Borah, P. (2024). Second-level agenda setting of news media and public policy on social media discourse across platforms: Immigration during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Information, Communication and Society. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2380759

Kim, J. & Rojas, H. (2024). How Does Political Communication Relate to Perceived Extremity of Partisans and Their Divides? From Communication to Polarization Perceptions to Political Engagement. Communication Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10510974.2024.2392909 

Li, J., Borah, P., Kang, J., Kim, J., Okada, T., Shen, L., Tao, R., & Yang, S. (2024). Does news literacy help combat misinformation? The interplay of news literacy, political ideology, and ideological media use on COVID-19 misperceptions. Information, Communication and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2341000.

Jiang, X., Zhang, Y., Kim, J., Shah, D., & Pevehouse, J. (2023). Talking Past Each Other: Expression Polarization in Immigration Discourses on Twitter. Political Communication, 41(2), 244–268. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2263400.

Kim, J. & Youn, S. (2019). How can Hate Speech be a Business in Online Broadcasting?: Focusing on a talk/camcorder genre on YouTube and AfreecaTV. Korean Journal of Broadcasting and Telecommunication Studies, 33 (3), 45-79.

Manuscripts Under Review

Kim, J., Lee, H., Liao, X., Duan, Z., Sun, L., & Yang, S. (Under Review). Project on Unpacking Health Politicization.

Kim, J., Kalmoe, N., & Mason, L. (Under Review). Project on the Relational Harms of Politically Hostile Messages on Social Media.

Kim, J. & Wagner, M. (Under Review). Project on Overestimated Polarization Across Policy Domain.

Kim, J.*, Wang, Y. *, & Wagner, M. (Under Review). Project on the Effects of Gender and Sexism on Voting Decisions. (*Joint first authorship)

Kim, J.*, Lee, H. *, & Yang, S. (Under Review). Project on Communicative Consequences of Messages Politicizing Health. (*Joint first authorship)

Selected Conference Presentations

MPSA 2025

Kim, J., Kwon, H., Zhang, Y., & Shah, D. (2025). How Partisan Users Engage and Disengage with Each Other over Immigration: Fine-Tuning BERT to Explore Twitter Discourse between 2014 – 2017. Presented at the 82nd annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL.

ICA 2024

Kim, J., Kalmoe, N., & Mason, L. (2024). Eroding Relationships Over Politics: How do aggressive political messages influence Americans’ decisions to unfriend and insult others?. Presented at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

Kim, J. & Wagner, M. (2024). It’s their fault: How political talk networks and news media diets are associated with perceptions of partisan polarization in the United States. Presented at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

Kim, J., Lee, H., Liao, X., Duan, Z., Sun, L., & Yang, S. (2024). Unpacking Health Politicization: Distinguishing Message Versus Perception Effects on COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Attitudes and Partisan Polarization. Presented at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

Kim, J., Duan, Z., Li, J., Ryoo, Y., Monard, E., Bucy, E., Pevehouse, J., & Shah, D. (2024). Nuclear Threats in a Multi-Platform World: Tracking Discursive Shifts Among Elites, Influentials Voices Online, and Non-Elites Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Presented at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

Duan, Z., Shao, A., Hu, Y., Lee, H., Liao, X., Suh, Y, J., Kim, J., Yang, C., Chen, K., & Yang, S. (2024). Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Latent Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Appeals. Presented at the 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

MPSA 2024

Kim, J. & Wagner, M. (2024). Partisan Media Drives Us to Think We Are Polarized. The association between political communication and perceived polarization on the foreign policy concerning the Russo-Ukraine war compared to the other domestic politics. Presented at the 81st annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL.

Kim, J., Pauley, S., & Wagner, M. (2024). Does National Identity Help or Harm America? The interplay of national and party identities on partisan animosity and immigrant attitudes. Presented at the 81st annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL.

APSA 2023

Kim, J. & Wang, Y. (2023). The Role of Gender and Sexism in the Presidential and Congressional Elections. Presented at the 119th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Los Angeles, CA.

Polarization Research Lab 2023

Kim, J. & Rojas, H. (2023). Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Partisan Communication Shapes Perceived Political Polarization. Presented at the 1st annual meeting of Polarization Research Lab (PRL), Stanford, CA.

ICA 2023

Kim, J. & Rojas, H. (2023). From Perceptions of Polarization to Mobilization or Resignation: The effects of perceived political polarization on political participation and online expression. Presented at the 73rd annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.

Jiang, X., Kim, J., Lee, H., Li, M., & Rojas, H. (2023). Perceived extremity of partisan news—How it is shaped by ideology and catalyzed by partisan information consumption. Presented at the 73rd annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.

Duan, Z., Yang, S., Shao, A., Chen, K., Hu, Y., Suh, Y. J., Kim, J., Lee, H., & Liao, X. (2023). VecOpt: Development of a word embedding-based optimization approach to extracting moral appeals from text. Presented at the 73rd annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.

ICA 2022

Kim, J. (2022). Listening to Public Opinions: Ideals and Realities of the Black Lives Matter News Coverage from the Audience Perspectives. Presented at the 72nd annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Kim, J. & Zhang, Y. (2022). Rhetoric of Polarization: Partisan Language in the Immigration Discourse on Twitter, 2014-2017. Presented at the 72nd annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Li, J., Borah, P., Kang, J., Kim, J., Okada, T., Shen, L., Tao, R., & Yang, S. (2022). News literacy matters, but for whom?: Political asymmetry in the effects of news literacy on COVID-19 health and political misperceptions. Presented at the 72nd annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Jiang, X., Wang, Y., Li, J., Kim, J., Qin, A., Yang, E., Wagner, M., Shah, D., & Wells, C. (2022). Perceptions of Partisan News Use and the Dynamics of Political Conversation in the United States. Presented at the 72nd annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

AEJMC 2021

Kim, J., Li, G., Liao, X., & Rojas, H. (2021). When does the Past Colonial Memory Plug into the Nationalism? Media’s Priming on Anti-Japan Nationalism among South Koreans and Chinese. Presented at the 104th annual conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), United States.

ICA 2021

Kim, J. (2021). Politics of Debunking Misinformation Concerning COVID-19: Effects of the Perceived Political Ideology of Issues and Fact-Checkers on Correction. Presented at the 71st annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Virtual Conference.

Jiang, X., Zhang, Y., Kim, J., & Shah, D. (2021). Talking Past Each Other: Expression Polarization in Immigration Discourses on Twitter. Presented at the 71st annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Virtual Conference.

AEJMC 2020

Kim, J. (2020). Cultural Identity of Post-Colonial South Koreans: Through the South Korean Boycott against Japan in 2019. Presented at the 103rd annual conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), San Francisco, CA, United States.

ICA 2020

Kim, H., Kim, J., Suh, Y., Song, B., Chong, E., Kim, E., & Hong, H. (2020). How Conclusion Explicitness and Exemplification Affect User Engagement with Social Media Messages Promoting Fact-Checking News. Presented at the 70th annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.