Journal Publications 

13. Lu, L., Liu, J., Kim. S. J., Tao, R., & McLeod, D. (Forthcoming). The effects of vaccine efficacy information on vaccination intentions through perceived response efficacy and hope. Journal of Health Communication.

12. Kim, S. J.* & Chen, K.* (2022) How conspiracy and debunking videos use emotions to engage publics on YouTube. New Media & Society. Online First. (doi)

11. Kim, S. J.* Minich, M.*, Tveleneva, A., Liu, J., Padon, A., Silver, L., & Yang, S. (2022) Textual and pictorial enhancement of cannabis warning labels: An online experiment among at-risk U.S. young adults. Drug & Alcohol Dependence. 109520. (doi)

10. Tveleneva, A., Kim, S. J., Minich, M., Liu, J., Padori, A., Silver, L., & Yang, S. (2022) Yet Again conversations matter: The importance of interpersonal discussions, educational campaigns, and advertising on cannabis-related risk perceptions, attitudes, and intentions in at-risk young adults. Journal of Health Communication. (doi) 


9. Chen, K., Kim, S. J., Gao, Q., & Raschka, S.* (2022) (The authors contributed equally to this work). Visual framing of science conspiracy videos: Integrating machine learning with communication theories to study the use of color and brightness. Computational Communication Research. (pdf)

8. Ahn, P. H., Van Swol, L. M., Lu, M., Kim, S. J., Park, H. (2023) Innovative ideas desire earlier communication: Exploring reverse serial‐order effect and liberating cognitive constraint for organizational problem‐solving. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. (doi)

7. Suk, J., Lukito, J., Su, M., Kim, S. J., Tong, C., Sun, Z., & Sarma, P. (2022) Do I sound American? Predicting disinformation sharing of Russian IRA tweets from a linguistic perspective. Computational Communication Research. (preprint)

6. McLeod, D., Choung, H., Su, M., Kim, S. J., Tao, R., Liu, J., & Lee, B. G. (2022). Navigating a diverse paradigm: A conceptual framework for experimental framing effects research. Review of Communication Research, 10 (pdf).

5. Zhang, Y., Lukito, J., Su, M-H., Suk, J., Xia, Y., Kim, S. J., Doreshenko, L., & Wells, C. (2021). Assembling the networks and audiences of disinformation: How successful Russian IRA twitter accounts built their followings, 2015–2017. Journal of Communication, 00, 1–27. (doi)

4. Ahn, P. H., Van Swol, L. M., Kim, S, J., & Park, H. (2021). Enhanced motivation and decisioin making from going hybrid. Small Group Research, 1-37. (doi)

3. Lukito, J., Suk, J., Zhang, Y., Doreshenko, L., Kim, S. J., Su, M-H., Xia, Y., & Wells, C. (2019). The wolves in sheep’s clothing: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency tweets appeared in U.S. News as vox populi. International Journal of Press/Politics, 00(0),1-21. (doi)

2. Xia, Y., Lukito, J., Zhang, Y., Wells, C., Kim, S. J., & Tong, C. (2019). Disinformation, performed: Self-presentation of a Russian IRA account on Twitter. Information, Communication and Society, 22(11), 1646–1664. (doi)

1. Zhang, Y., Shah., D., Foley., J., Abhisheck., A., Pevehouse., J., Lukito., J., Suk., J., Kim., S. J., Sun, Z., & Garlough., C. (2019). Whose lives matter? Mass shootings and social media discourses of sympathy and policy, 2012–2014. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 24(4), 182–202. (doi)

Book Chapter

Bucy, E.P., Shah, D.V., Sun, Z., Sethars, B., Borah, P., Kim, S. J., & Duan, Z. (2022) Detecting nonverbal aggression in the presidential debate: A demonstration and rationale for a CCSE data co-op. In R.X.Browning (Ed.), The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Vol. 8.

Under Review

Kim, S. J., Villanueva, I., & Chen, K. Going beyond affective polarization: How emotional and identity cues are used in anti-vaccination conspiracies on TikTok in various countries (R & R). 

Kim, S. J., Shah, D.V., Bucy, E.P., Shan, Y., & Joo, J. Visualizing hate: Detecting and contextualizing hateful symbols in Capitol Attack news coverage (Abstract Accepted).

Kim, S. J., Sun, Y.*, Duan, Z., Suh, Y., Fan, R., Li, M., Bucy, E., Borah, P., Lukito, J., Sun, Z., & Shah, D. Does candidate aggression motivate online incivility? Gender, partisanship, and populist performance (Abstract Accepted).

Lu, L., Kim. S. J., Tao, R.,  Liu, J., & McLeod, D.  A number is worth a thousand words: Psychological mechanisms and the effectiveness of communicating vaccine efficacy information. (Under Review). 

Shah, D. V., Sun, Z.*, Bucy, E. P., Kim, S. J., Sun, Y., Li, M., & Sethares, W. Building a multimodal classifier of aggressive political style: Towards a computational understanding of political performance in a populist era (R & R). 

Lukito, J., Yang, Y., & Kim, S. J. How QAnon developed from a fringe group to a digital surrogate for the GOP (R & R).