Congratulations to our students in the Institute of Communications Research for all of their hard work in the 2020-2021 academic year. They have written articles for publication, edited a journal, presented research at conferences, and received numerous awards, grants, and honors. Below is a roundup of their accomplishments.
PUBLICATIONS
Craft, S., & Kristensen, M. (2020). Noise and the Values of News. In M. Powers & A. Russell (Eds.), Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies (pp. 78-88). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108886260.006
Goel, K., Cai, S., Ogwal, S., Wong, A., Engel, L.C., & McCarthy, C. (2020). The world before us: reappraising globalization in education in the tumult of contemporary change, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1836744
Gu, J. (2021). Regulating Obscenity in Chinese Livestreaming: An Ongoing Mediation between the Private and the Public, the Nation and the Market. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 8, 71-92.
Ham, C. D., Chung, U. C., Kim, W. J., Lee, S. Y., & Oh, S. H. (In press). Greener than Others? Exploring Generational Differences in Green Purchase Intent. International Journal of Market Research. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14707853211034108
Ham, C. D., Ryu, S., Lee, J., Chung, U. C., Buteau, E., & Sar, S. (Accepted for publication) Intrusive or Relevant? Exploring How Consumers Avoid Native Facebook Ads through Decomposed Persuasion Knowledge. Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising.
Hu, X., & Wise, K. (2021). How playable ads influence consumer attitude: Exploring the mediation effects of perceived control and freedom threat. Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 15(2), 295-315, DOI: 10.1108/JRIM-12-2020-0269.
Hu, X., & Yao, M. Z. (2021). Judging a book by its cover: Investigating consumer responses toward sponsored YouTube product review videos. Journal of Media Business Studies, DOI: 10.1080/16522354.2021.1960721.
Jarreau, P. B., Su, L. Y.-F., Chiang, E. C.-L., Bennett, S. M., Zhang, J. S., Ferguson, M., & Algarra, D. (2021). COVID ISSUE: Visual Narratives About COVID-19 Improve Message Accessibility, Self-Efficacy, and Health Precautions. Frontiers in Communication, 6(164). https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.712658
Jiang, H., & Zhang, M. (2021). Online information adoption about public infrastructure projects in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 310, 127527.
Kang, Y. (2021). Beyond the layout: reading South Korean animations as affective-performative assemblages, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1939401
Khan, A., Natarajan, S., & Bhalla, S. (2021). Climate Strikes in Millennial India: Social Capital and “On-Ground” Networks in Digital-First Movements. Communication, Culture and Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab035
Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y. (Accepted for publication) Hypocrisy Induction: Using Chatbots to Promote COVID-19 Social Distancing. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y.,Yoon, S., & Kim, K. (Accepted for publication) Ethical Dissonance in Environmental Advertising: Moderating Effects of Self-Benefit vs. Other-Benefit Appeals. International Journal of Advertising.
Lee, S.Y., Yao, M., & Su, L.Y.-F. (In press). Unpopular Opinions vs Trolling: What can Dark Personalities Predict? Telematics and Informatics. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101645
Lim, D., Lin, J.S., Chung, U.C., & Ko, Y. (2021). The role of construal fit in threat appeal to persuade young drivers not to text while driving. Journal of Social Marketing, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-06-2020-0109
Liu, Q., Tang, Q., & Wang, Y. (2021). The effects of pretraining intervention in immersive embodied virtual reality cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-13.
Liu, Q., Wang, Y., Tang, Q., & Liu, Z. (2020). Do You Feel the Same as I Do? Differences in Virtual Reality Technology Experience and Acceptance Between Elderly Adults and College Students. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2555.
Nelson, M.R., Das, S., & Ahn, R.J. (2020). A Prescription for Health: (Pseudo)Scientific Advertising of Fruits and Vegetables in the Early 20th Century. Advertising & Society Quarterly 21(1), doi:10.1353/asr.2020.0007.
Ryoo, Y. & Kim, W. J. (Accepted for publication) Social Norms and Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Communication
Samayeen, N., Wong, A., & McCarthy, C. (2020): Space to breathe: George Floyd, BLM plaza and the monumentalization of divided American Urban landscapes, Educational Philosophy and Theory, DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1795980
Samayeen, N., Wong, A., & McCarthy, C. (2021). Espacio para Respirar: George Floyd, la Plaza CLM y la Monumentalización de los Paisajes Estadounidenses Urbanos Divididos. Revista Enfoques Educacionales, 17(2), 73-88. doi:10.5354/0717-3229.2020.60637
Shabalina, O.I., & Nelson, M.R. (2020). Knowledge and Experience of Targeting and Retargeting in Online Advertising across Age Cohorts. In L.P. Shestyorkina & L.K. Lobodenko (Eds.), Media communications and Internet marketing in digital civilization (Vol. 2, pp. 270-298). Chelyabinsk: South-Ural State University publishing center.
Wang, Y., & Yao, M. Z. (2020). Did you notice the ads? Examining the influence of telepresence and user control on the effectiveness of embedded billboard ads in a VR racing game. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 20(3), 258-272.
Wong, A. (2020). Mapping signs and making them stick: discursive power and the semiotic construction of a ‘world’s leader’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1836748
Xu, X. (2021). Can Artificial Newscasters Bring Us Closer? A Comparison of Human and Artificial Newscasters on Outgroup Empathy. An extended abstract of 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference.
Zhang, M., Wang, X. and Hu, Y. (Accepted for publication), Strategic Framing Matters but Varies: A Structural Topic Modeling Approach to Analyzing China’s Foreign Propaganda about the 2019 Hong Kong Protests on Twitter, Social Science Computer Review.
JOURNAL EDITORSHIP
Goel, K., Cai, S., Ogwal, S., Wong, A., Engel, L.C., & McCarthy, C., (Eds.) (2021). Reassessing globalization: new perspectives on education in the tumult of global change, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Bhalla, S., & Ray, R. (2021). Foregrounding space and context: A discursive study of fact-checking in India. Presented at SACA-AEJMC.
Cano, A. A., & Perez S. (2020). The Chola Wannabe: A Chicana Reflection on Culture Appropriation of Chola and Aesthetics. Plática presented at the La Chola Conference, Oceanside, CA.
Cano, A. A. (2021). Panel presentation for the Social Dilemma Netflix Documentary Open Conversation at California State University of San Bernardino.
Chen, C., Hu, X., & Fisher, J. T. (2021). A systematic review of immersion: exploring the cognitive and social processes underlying immersive experiences. Paper accepted to be present at the National Communication Association 107th Annual Convention.
Chung, U. C., Ham, C. D., Lee, S. Y., Kim, W. J., & Oh, S. H. (2021). Understanding Ad-block Wall and Its Effects on Online Publisher and Advertising through Psychological Reactance. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Chung, U. C., Ham, C. D., Lee, S. Y., Kim, W. J., & Oh, S. H. (2021). Understanding Ad-block Wall and Its Effects on Online Publisher and Advertising through Psychological Reactance. Korea Advertising Society (KAS) 2021 Global Colloquium, Gangneung, Korea.
Chung, U. C., Seok, A.Y., & Ham, C. D. (2021). Seeker or Sentry? Consumers’ Coping Mechanism with Third-Party Cookie Driven Advertising: Multidimensional Persuasion Knowledge Perspective. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Gong, Z., Su, L. Y.-F., Zhang, J. S., Chen, T., & Wang, Y.-C. (2021). How Are Food Date Labels Associated with Consumer-level Food Waste? A Mixed-design Experiment. Presented at the 71st Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, virtual.
Gu, J. (2021). Mediating Intimacy and Performing Labor: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Live/Life Streaming. Presented at the 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference, Virtual.
Gu, J. & Pyo, J. (2021). All-in-one Apps: Formation of Transnational Cultural Identity on WeChat and KakaoTalk, the 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference, Virtual.
Ham, C. D., Chung, U. C., Kim, W. J., Lee, S. Y., & Oh, S. H. (2021). Greener than Others? Exploring Generational Differences in Green Perceptions and Purchase Intentions of the US Consumer: Consumer Socialization and Social Intelligence Perspectives. American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Ham, C. D., Chung, U. C., Kim, W. J., Lee, S. Y., & Oh, S. H. (2021). Greener than Others? Exploring Generational Differences in Green Perceptions and Purchase Intentions of the US Consumer: Consumer Socialization and Social Intelligence Perspectives. Korea Advertising Society (KAS) 2021 Global Colloquium, Gangneung, Korea.
Heo, S. J. (2021). Stick to the task when I am serious about my shopping: the effects of conversation styles of recommendation agents on consumer trust and privacy concerns. ICA annual conference.
Hu, X., & Chen, C. (2021). Visual or textual superiority effect? Investigating the effect of presentation format and individual processing propensity on mental imagery of online product information. American Academy of Advertising conference.
Kim, S.J., Lee, S.Y., Lee, H., Yao, S (2021). How News Usage and the Perceived Credibility of Government News Sources Contributed to Engaging in Preventive Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Korean American Communication Association Division of AEJMC annual conference, Virtual.
Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y., & Yoon, S. K., Kim, K. (2020). Ethical Dissonance Influences on the Effectiveness of Other-Benefit versus Self-Benefit Appeals in Environmental Advertising. 2020 ICAMA-KAS International Conference. Online.
Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y., Chung, U. C., & Kim, M. J. (2021). How Moral Failure Leverages Online Ethical Behaviors. American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y., Lee, S. Y., & Lee, J. A. (2021). Chatbot Advertising as a Double-edged Sword: The Roles of Regulatory Focus, Ad Personalization, and Privacy Concern. American Academy of Advertising (AAA), Online.
Kristensen, M., & Craft, S. (2020) Making News (Values) Relevant Again: A Ritual Approach. Journalism Division of ICA 2021.
Lee, H., Kim, S. J., Lee, S.Y., Yao, S., Wongmith, N., & Chock, T. M. (2021). Confusion about the Coronavirus: The effects of uncertainty on information seeking behaviors. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Virtual.
Lee, H., Kim, S. J., Yao, S., Lee, S.Y., and Chock, T. M. (2021). The Harder the Battle, the More We Talk: The Effects of Perceived Risk of Player-death on Game Enjoyment in Mobile FPS Game. Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association annual conterence, Virtual.
Lee, J. A., Lee, S. Y., Ryoo, Y., & Kim, W. J. (2021). Envying social media influencers makes me happy because I am inspired. International Communication Association (ICA), Online.
Lee, S.Y., & Yao, M.Z. (2021). Unpopular Opinions vs Trolling: What can Dark Personalities Predict? Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association annual conterence, Virtual.
McKasy, M., Cacciatore, M. A., Yeo, S. K., Zhang, J. S., Cook, J., & Olaleye, R. M. (2021). The Impact of Emotion and Humor on Support for Global Warming Action. Presented at the 71st Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, virtual.
Mukhopadhyay, A. (2021). Fragmented nation televised: “Buniyaad” and the narrative(s) of postcolonial India. Television Histories in Development conference hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
Mukhopadhyay, A. (2021). Racial Orders and Neoliberal borders: Digital media and Racialized citizenship during Covid in India. Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference. London, UK.
Nelson, M. R., Ham, C. D., Haley, E., & Chung, U. C. (2021). Political Advertising in the United States: Persuasion Knowledge and Support for Regulation in Social Media. American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Oh, S. H., Lee, S.Y., Kim, W. J., Chung, U. C., & Ham C. D. (2021). The Differential Effects of News Media and Social Media on Health Prevention for E-cigarettes: Focusing on the Mediating Role of the Influence of Presumed Media Influence. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, Virtual.
Ray, R. (2021). Does SNS platform choice matter? Analyzing perceptions of the U.S-China trade conflict through item-response theory. Adjudged as one of the 4 promising student papers of the Information Systems Division of ICA.
Ray, R., Bhalla, S., Taneja, H. (2021). Do fact-checkers overcome partisan divides? An investigation of Indian Twitter users. The 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference.
Ryoo, Y., Jeon, Y.W., & Kim, W.J. (2021). Attributions of Blame Following Robot Serivce Failure, The 2021 Korean Society for Consumer Advertising Psychology (KSCAP) Annual Convention, Online.
Ryoo, Y., Soheil, K. Lee, J.A., Kim, W. J., & Sung, Y. (2020). When Does (Does not) Neutralization Lead to Prosocial Actions? 2020 ICAMA-KAS International Conference. Online.
Shabalina, O. (2020). Layout Complexity of Social Media Feeds and Goal-Oriented Visual Search Behavior. Attention & Perception Brown Bag series (Daniel Simons), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Shabalina, O., Hu, X., & K. Wise (2021). Trade-Off Between Layout Congruency and User Experience in Visual Search Behavior on Pinterest Boards. The virtual 104th Annual AEJMC Conference.
Valdivia A., Baez, J., Leon-Boys D., Perez S., & Cano, A. A. (2021). Quinceañera Studies: Intersectional Approaches to a 21st Century Mediated Latinidad. Panel presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference
POLICY PAPERS
Chan, A., Wong, A., Oliver, M. (2021). Walking Through Time as One: Contextualizing the Impact of the Champaign County Community Coalition. Community Data Clinic in Partnership with the Champaign County Community Coalition.
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS
Bhalla, S. (2020-2023). Illinois Distinguished Fellowship
Cano, A. (2021) National Conference in American Higher Education Student Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE).
Chung, U. C. (2021). Best Paper (second place) of the Korea Advertising Society (KAS). Greener than Others? Exploring Generational Differences in Green Perceptions and Purchase Intentions of the US Consumer: Consumer Socialization and Social Intelligence Perspectives. Global Colloquium, Awarded by Korea Advertising Society (KAS).
Gu, J. (2021). Donald and Barbara Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hu, X. (2021). American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Graduate Student Scholarships.
Hu, X. (2021). Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Advertising Division Graduate Student Highlight https://mlashley4.wixsite.com/aejmcaddiv/xiaohan-catherine-hu
Kim, W. J. (2021). Best Conference Paper Award, Korean Society for Consumer Advertising Psychology Annual Convention
Kim, W. J. (2021). American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Graduate Student Scholarships
Kim, W. J. (2021). Best Paper of the Korea Advertising Society, 2021, Global Colloquium,
Kim, W. J. (2021). Graduate Student Conference Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lee, S.Y. (2021). Top Graduate Student Paper Award. Awarded by AEJMC-Korean American Communication Association (How News Usage and the Perceived Credibility of Government News Sources Contributed to Engaging in Preventive Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic).
Mukhopadhyay, A. (2021). Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant.
Wong, A. (2020). Research Cluster Grant. Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Community Research Cooperative: Methodologies for Research Justice, with Anita Say Chan, Rachel Magee, Gilberto Rosas, & Karen Rodriguez’G
Wong, A. (2021). Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship. Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign U.S. Department of Education Grant.
Wong, A. (2021). Minorities and Communication Paula Poindexter Student Grant: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Project: Affective Communication within the Context of Localized Media: How journalism and local Asian and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAAPI) communities respond to the anti-Asian hate initiatives with Qinglin Luan and Jane Pyo
Wong, A. (2021). Student Sustainability Committee Grant. Student Sustainability Committee, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Project: Resuscitating Soil for Sustainable Futures. In collaboration with Dr. Esther Ngumbi, Dr. Faye Harrison, Dr. Krystal Smalls, Dr. Ann Yeung, Ken Salo, Lila Dodge and Chibundo Egwuatu
Wong. A. (2020). Research Cluster Grant. Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Problems in Decolonizing Academia, with Faye Harrison, Cameron McCarthy, Esther Ngumbi, Ken Salo, Krystal Smalls, Chibundo Egwuatu & Lila Dodge
Zhang, M. (2021). Grant from SICSS-Chicago (Summer Institute of Computational Social Science)
Tingyu Chen received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and her master’s degree in communication at Renmin University of China. With critical-cultural approaches to media study, she situates her research interests at the intersection of media industry practices, cultural studies, and media criticism. Her recent research focuses on realist media (mainly realist film and documentary) and the culture of production and consumption in contemporary China.
Kirby Cook received her master’s degree in advertising at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and her bachelor’s degree in classical languages and literature from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. Kirby’s master’s thesis, “Evaluating Gender in Retail Servicescapes: Beyond the Heteronormative Binary Approach,” explored how retail companies communicate gender norms and how consumers of diverse backgrounds receive such messages and process shopping experiences. In her doctoral program, Kirby is interested in research pertaining to branding strategy, consumer behavior, and media effects as they relate to consumer identity. Prior to joining the ICR program, Kirby worked for UIUC as a career advisor and communications coordinator for Engineering Career Services at the Grainger College of Engineering, and as an international student advisor at the International Student and Scholar Services office. Before joining the University, Kirby worked abroad in Germany and South Korea as a consultant, adjunct lecturer, and high school English teacher. 
Seo-Jeong (Rachel) Heo graduated from Yonsei University (South Korea), receiving her bachelor’s and master’s in communication. She also received a master’s degree in advertising at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies media psychology and marketing communications. Her research interest lies in understanding the social/moral implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and psychological processes in AI-powered technologies, Virtual Reality (VR), and social media. Her recent research focuses on exploring how people make moral judgments toward robots’ behaviors and how we can effectively implement AI in assisting people’s decision-making processes. She is also interested in online consumer privacy and gave a presentation about conversational agents and privacy at the 2021 International Communication Association conference. 
Youngin Kang attained her master’s degree in gender, media and culture at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018. As a new ICR student, she wants to examine the inextricable relations between individual subjectivities in producing, distributing, and appropriating “culture(s)” within various socio-political processes, which construct a discursive mega-text, with which we cognitively, materially, and affectively engage in our everyday lives. Her research interests focus primarily on the unique characteristics of contemporary South Korean popular culture, which are hybrid, albeit, distinctively Korean.
Ketan Krishna holds a master’s degree in media and cultural studies from TISS, Mumbai, and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Hindu College, New Delhi. His research interests are centered around user-generated audio-visual content, art cultures on the internet, and technological change. His previous work includes writings on cinema and music. He has also worked as a documentary filmmaker and video editor on several projects.
Yan (Anna) Liu’s research interest lies in exploring consumer’s cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral responses to brand messages on social media from the socio- psychological perspective. Specifically, she is interested in the influence of relational factors in the process, such as online network, consumer’s relationship with message source, etc. Before joining ICR, she has been working as a professional marketing researcher in Ipsos for about four years.
