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.
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Recent Publications
Mun, K., Yang, J. H., & Yoo, W. (Accepted/In press). The Exploration of How Social Media Cultivate College Student Smokers: Theorizing Valence of Communication, Impression Management, and Perceived Risks and Benefits of Smoking in the O1-S-R1-O2-R2 Model. Health communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1767445
Wells, C., Shah, D., Lukito, J., Pelled, A., Pevehouse, J. C. W., & Yang, J. H. (2020). Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness: A media systems approach. New Media and Society, 22(4), 659-682. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819893987
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