This year’s AEJMC-KACA program is out! Please check out the full program!
AEJMC 2021 Korean American Communication Association Program
Session I. Refereed Paper Session
Thursday, August 5 (5:00-6:30 p.m. CDT)
Moderating/Presiding
Gi Woong Yun, University of Nevada, Reno
Discussants
Yeonsoo Kim, James Madison University
Young Eun Park, Colorado State University
How news usage and the perceived credibility of government news sources contributed to engaging in preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: In the context of the Protection Motivation Theory*
Se Jung Kim, Syracuse University
Seo Yoon Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heejae Lee, Syracuse University
Shengjie Yao, Syracuse University
A social identity model of localized social media dependency during earthquake disaster
Jinhee Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Yong-Chan Kim, Yonsei University
Mihye Seo, Sungkyunkwan University
Idealized science vs. scientific skepticism in South Korea: Micro-level evidence for the two-cultures thesis
Seihill Kim, University of South Carolina
Ali Zain, University of South Carolina
Yu-Jin Heo, University of South Carolina
Portals as a gateway to civic engagement: The case of South Korea**
Damhee Kim, University of Arizona
Joshua von Herrmann, University of Arizona
Seungahn Nah, University of Oregon
*Top Student Paper
**Top Paper
Session II. KACA-AEJMC Business Meeting & Webinar
Thursday, August 5 (7:00-8:30 p.m. CDT)
KACA Business Meeting (7:00-7:30 p.m. CDT)
Moderating/Presiding
Hanna Park, Sun Moon University
KACA Webinar (7:30-8:30 p.m. CDT)
Big Data Analytics and Media AI for Data-Driven Journalism Studies
Presenter: Daemin Park, Sun Moon University
This webinar will discuss the possibility of data-driven journalism studies to describe journalistic practices based on news big data analytics and media AI. Some cases such as BigKinds(natural language analysis system of text news) and KDX-AI(a large-scale dataset of broadcast videos) in South Korea will be introduced.
Session III. Graduate Social “How to Sail Smoothly from Academia to Industry” *
Friday, August 6 (7:00-8:00 p.m. CDT)
* AEJMC registration is not required.
Special Speakers:
Hyunji Lee, Researcher, Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange
Arnold DongWoo Chung, Data Science Consultant, Accenture
Session IV. KACA Social *
Friday, August 6 (8:00-9:00 p.m. CDT)
* AEJMC registration is not required.
KACA Social & Graduate Social Registration: https://forms.gle/3PkUstPnhgB3FitBA
