Jayeon (Janey) Lee

Jayeon (Janey) Lee
Hanyang University

PhD

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Additional affiliations
March 2019 - September 2019
Gachon University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
August 2008 - May 2013
The Ohio State University
Position
  • Graduate Associate
August 2013 - present
Lehigh University
Position
  • Research Assistant
Education
August 2008 - August 2013
The Ohio State University
Field of study
  • Communication
August 2006 - August 2008
University of Texas at Austin
Field of study
  • Journalism

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Publications (20)
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The present study aims to contribute to the agenda setting theory and political campaign literature by examining candidates’ tweets and their effects on voter reactions in the context of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Content analysis of Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s 3-month tweets (N = 1575) revealed that half of their tweets were att...
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Studies have found that female politicians tend to emphasize their masculine personality traits and feminine issues to counteract damaging gender stereotypes. As Twitter has emerged as a major digital PR tool for politics over the last decade, it provides a text to examine political candidates? PR strategies. Focusing on the cases of the two then-f...
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While social networking sites (SNSs) have become popular news platforms where people receive and post news, little is known about why some people are relatively more active in receiving and posting news on SNSs. Based on the uses and gratification perspective, this study investigates (a) the direct and indirect effects of online news seeking on SNS...
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As social media become popular news platforms, journalists and news organizations have been keen to capitalize on their potential to build and maintain audiences. However, little is known about the extent to which these efforts may have adverse implications. Based on normative theories, the present study investigates the influence of journalists' s...
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The role of the media in informing the public has long been a central topic in journalism studies. Given that social media platforms have become today’s major source of news, it is important to understand the impact of social media use on citizens’ knowledge of current affairs. While people get news from multiple platforms throughout the day, most...
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Journalists are increasingly revealing their personal and professional identities through social media. Drawing on expectancy violation theory, this experimental study (N = 267) examines the influence of a journalist’s self-disclosure through social media on audience perceptions of objectivity and intention to consume the journalist’s news product....
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Humans strive for balance between their motivations for accurate judgments and their cognitive effort. Although heuristic cues provide cognitive shortcuts, heuristic-based processing does not guarantee quality judgments. Based on the heuristic-systematic model, this study investigates if social media users select cues to use for their judgments bas...
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While the ways heads of states are visually portrayed in their official photos may differ depending on their cultures, particularly whether they have an individualistic culture or a collectivistic culture, little scholarly attention has been paid to examining such differences. The present study investigates how US and South Korean presidents, Barac...
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Guided by regulatory focus theory and framing, the present study analyzes how U.S. and British mainstream news organizations (N = 12) frame the current social media environment in their social media guidelines. The results indicate that news organizations dominantly frame the new environment as a risk to guard against, warning of the possible harm...
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Social information processing theory claims that computer-mediated communi-cation users form impressions of others by utilizing available information in the web environment. As social networking sites offer a wider variety of cues, however, the environment has become increasingly complex. This study explores which cues influence computer-mediated c...
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This chapter critically reflects on the state of the art in research on the political relevance of entertainment media. It is argued that most research on this important topic has been based on the ideas of understanding or consistency. While these lines of research also need to be expanded, the authors call for bring-ing the hedonic principle into...
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Abstract While social information processing theory (SIP) asserts that Internet users form impressions of others by using available cues in the web environment, questions remain regarding individual differences in dependence on such cues. Focusing on others' opinion cues, this study investigates the role of internal political self-efficacy (IPSE) a...
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An 11-item Affinity for Political Humor (AFPH) scale is theorized as a higher-order latent factor with four lower-order latent factors (incongruity, superiority, anxiety reduction, and social connection). The theorized measurement model and several alternative models are tested using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). In addition, reliability and...
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Drawing on gender-role theories and considering the potential new media environments brought to the dynamics of strategic political communication, this study explores the nature of US Midwestern congresswomen’s strategic online self-presentations in comparison to those of congressmen. The discourse analysis presented in this study shows that in the...
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Content analyses have focused on the messages offered in political TV satire, and the communication discipline is amassing solid empirical evidence concerning a range of effects derived from this style of programming. However, there is remarkably little understanding of who is tuning in to view political TV satire beyond the audience being dominate...
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As an effort to elaborate on the underlying psychology of agenda-setting process, this study introduced the issue capacity concept and tested its relationships with individual-level agenda-setting effects. The findings showed that issue capacity was the strongest predictor of individuals' agenda-setting susceptibility among various cognitive and mo...

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