Dr. Jisu Kim is an assistant professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology where she teaches in the Digital Communications and Interactive Media program. She is an affiliate fellow at the Information Society Project and an affiliated scholar at The Justice Collaboratory (Social Media Governance Initiative) at Yale Law School. Prior to arriving at SIT, she was on the faculty at Wenzhou-Kean University. She was also a resident fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Dr. Kim’s research focuses on how digital technology influences audience engagement, journalism practices, and the business model of news organizations, with an emphasis on computational methods. Dr. Kim’s goal is to understand factors that influence audience trust in news organizations and engagement with news on social media to help news organizations devise a better strategy for engaging with their audiences. In addition, her work seeks to examine the factors that influence the dissemination of news and information on social media through computer algorithms. She sees herself working as an interdisciplinary scholar, developing a useful computer program or platform for news organizations and audiences in order to enhance productive interactions between the two parties and improve journalism practice.
Thus far, her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Social Media + Society, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journalism Practice, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, and International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. She also won multiple paper awards at major communication conferences, such as the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
With respect to teaching, her teaching areas include social media, audience engagement, media practices, data analytics, data visualization, communication theories and applications. Born in Seoul, Republic of Korea, Dr. Kim earned a BA in Political Science, an MA in Journalism and Mass Communication at Korea University, and a PhD in Mass Communication from the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.
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