Contact Information
702 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Computational social science
Political communication
Data science
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Journalism and Mass Communication, Ph.D.
Seoul National University, Communication, M.A.
Seoul National University, Mechanical Engineering, B.E.
External Links
Recent Publications
Keller, F. B., Schoch, D., Stier, S., & Yang, J. H. (Accepted/In press). Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign. Political Communication, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2019.1661888
Keller, F. B., Schoch, D., Stier, S., & Yang, J. (2017). How to manipulate social media: Analyzing political astroturfing using ground truth data from South Korea. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017 (pp. 564-567). (Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017). AAAI Press.
Yang, J. H., & Kim, Y. M. (2017). Equalization or normalization? Voter–candidate engagement on Twitter in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 14(3), 232-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2017.1338174
Yang, J. H., Barnidge, M., & Rojas, H. (2017). The politics of “Unfriending”: User filtration in response to political disagreement on social media. Computers in Human Behavior, 70, 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.079
Mclaughlin, B., Yang, J. H., Yoo, W., Shaw, B., Kim, S. Y., Shah, D., & Gustafson, D. (2016). The Effects of Expressing Religious Support Online for Breast Cancer Patients. Health communication, 31(6), 762-771. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2015.1007550