Junghwan Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Junghwan Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Junghwan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5807-0982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Does Listening to Trustworthy News Affect Political Attitudes and Trust?
Crossing lines for laughs
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data
In this note, we provide direct evidence of cheating in online assessments of political knowledge. We combine survey responses with web tracking data of a German and a US online panel to assess whether people turn to external sources for answers. We observe item-level prevalence rates of cheating that range from 0 to 12 percent depending on question type and difficulty, and find that 23 percent of respondents engage in cheating at least once acro…
The consequences of online partisan media
Significance Popular wisdom suggests that the internet plays a major role in influencing people’s attitudes and behaviors related to politics, such as by providing slanted sources of information. Yet evidence for this proposition is elusive due to methodological difficulties and the multifaceted nature of online media effects. This study breaks ground by demonstrating a nudge-like approach for exploring these effects through a combination of real…
The Exploration of How Social Media Cultivate College Student Smokers
The purpose of this study is to build a theoretical framework to account for how social media lead college students to smoke. Arguing critical concepts, such as valence of communication, impression management, perceived risks and benefits, this study develops the O 1 -S-R 1 -O 2 -R 2 model. For this, we test a separated model for smokers and nonsmokers. For smokers, the effect of exposure to pro-smoking content on smoking behavior is mediated by …
Do Online Voter Guides Empower Citizens
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs), which provide citizens with information on the party that best represents their political preferences, are often cited as evidence of the empowering capabilities of digital tools. Aside from the informational benefits of these voter guides, observational studies have suggested a strong effect on political participation and vote choice. However, existing impact evaluations have been limited by a reliance on conve…
Political Astroturfing on Twitter
Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral outcomes and other forms of political behavior. Yet, it is hard to evaluate the scope and effectiveness of political astroturfing without “ground truth” information, such as the verified identity of its agents and instigators. In this paper, we study the South …
Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness
How populists engage with media of various types, and are treated by those media, are questions of international interest. In the United States, Donald Trump stands out for both his populism-inflected campaign style and his success at attracting media attention. This article examines how interactions between candidate communications, social media, partisan media, and news media combined to shape attention to Trump, Clinton, Cruz, and Sanders duri…
The politics of “Unfriending”
Equalization or normalization? Voter–candidate engagement on Twitter in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections
This study assesses the engagement between voters and political candidates on Twitter and examines its relationship with offline electoral factors such as campaign finances and election outcomes. An analysis of more than 5 million tweets from 302 candidates and their followers in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections reveals that there are large disparities in voter–candidate engagement across the candidates. The prominent candidates from bigger races …
Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries
This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, \nconceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying \non representative surveys in Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, \nNorway, United Kingdom and United States, we test whether perceived polarization is related to \nthe use of television news, newspaper, radio news, and online new…
How Trump Drove Coverage to the Nomination
Keywords: political communicationpresidentcampaignTrumphybridTwittertweet2016electionpublic opinionnewspaperdigital
Dual Screening During Presidential Debates
The impact of presidential debates on candidate evaluations remains an open topic. Research has long sought to identify the factors that matter most in citizens' responses to debate content, including what candidates say, how they say it, and the manner in which they appear. This study uses detailed codings of the first and third 2012 presidential debates to evaluate the impact of candidates' verbal and nonverbal behaviors on viewers' "second scr…
Candidate Networks, Citizen Clusters, and Political Expression
Twitter provides a direct method for political actors to connect with citizens, and for those citizens to organize into online clusters through their use of hashtags (i.e., a word or phrase marked with # to identify an idea or topic and facilitate a search for it). We examine the political alignments and networking of Twitter users, analyzing 9 million tweets produced by more than 23,000 randomly selected followers of candidates for the U.S. Hous…
Political influence across generations
Recent scholarship in political socialization has moved beyond traditional transmission models of parent-driven socialization to consider alternative pathways, like trickle-up socialization and its predictors. However, these studies have paid less attention to the diverse ways in which parents and children develop discrete political orientations, especially during a competitive presidential campaign. In this study, we examine various pathways thr…
How Trump Drove Coverage to the Nomination
Keywords: political communicationpresidentcampaignTrumphybridTwittertweet2016electionpublic opinionnewspaperdigital
Political Astroturfing on Twitter
Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral outcomes and other forms of political behavior. Yet, it is hard to evaluate the scope and effectiveness of political astroturfing without “ground truth” information, such as the verified identity of its agents and instigators. In this paper, we study the South …
Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness
How populists engage with media of various types, and are treated by those media, are questions of international interest. In the United States, Donald Trump stands out for both his populism-inflected campaign style and his success at attracting media attention. This article examines how interactions between candidate communications, social media, partisan media, and news media combined to shape attention to Trump, Clinton, Cruz, and Sanders duri…
Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries
This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, \nconceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying \non representative surveys in Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, \nNorway, United Kingdom and United States, we test whether perceived polarization is related to \nthe use of television news, newspaper, radio news, and online new…
Do Online Voter Guides Empower Citizens
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs), which provide citizens with information on the party that best represents their political preferences, are often cited as evidence of the empowering capabilities of digital tools. Aside from the informational benefits of these voter guides, observational studies have suggested a strong effect on political participation and vote choice. However, existing impact evaluations have been limited by a reliance on conve…
Candidate Networks, Citizen Clusters, and Political Expression
Twitter provides a direct method for political actors to connect with citizens, and for those citizens to organize into online clusters through their use of hashtags (i.e., a word or phrase marked with # to identify an idea or topic and facilitate a search for it). We examine the political alignments and networking of Twitter users, analyzing 9 million tweets produced by more than 23,000 randomly selected followers of candidates for the U.S. Hous…
Equalization or normalization? Voter–candidate engagement on Twitter in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections
This study assesses the engagement between voters and political candidates on Twitter and examines its relationship with offline electoral factors such as campaign finances and election outcomes. An analysis of more than 5 million tweets from 302 candidates and their followers in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections reveals that there are large disparities in voter–candidate engagement across the candidates. The prominent candidates from bigger races …
Dual Screening During Presidential Debates
The impact of presidential debates on candidate evaluations remains an open topic. Research has long sought to identify the factors that matter most in citizens' responses to debate content, including what candidates say, how they say it, and the manner in which they appear. This study uses detailed codings of the first and third 2012 presidential debates to evaluate the impact of candidates' verbal and nonverbal behaviors on viewers' "second scr…
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data
In this note, we provide direct evidence of cheating in online assessments of political knowledge. We combine survey responses with web tracking data of a German and a US online panel to assess whether people turn to external sources for answers. We observe item-level prevalence rates of cheating that range from 0 to 12 percent depending on question type and difficulty, and find that 23 percent of respondents engage in cheating at least once acro…
Political influence across generations
Recent scholarship in political socialization has moved beyond traditional transmission models of parent-driven socialization to consider alternative pathways, like trickle-up socialization and its predictors. However, these studies have paid less attention to the diverse ways in which parents and children develop discrete political orientations, especially during a competitive presidential campaign. In this study, we examine various pathways thr…
Candidate Networks, Citizen Clusters, and Political Expression
Twitter provides a direct method for political actors to connect with citizens, and for those citizens to organize into online clusters through their use of hashtags (i.e., a word or phrase marked with # to identify an idea or topic and facilitate a search for it). We examine the political alignments and networking of Twitter users, analyzing 9 million tweets produced by more than 23,000 randomly selected followers of candidates for the U.S. Hous…
Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries
This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, \nconceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying \non representative surveys in Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, \nNorway, United Kingdom and United States, we test whether perceived polarization is related to \nthe use of television news, newspaper, radio news, and online new…
How Trump Drove Coverage to the Nomination
Keywords: political communicationpresidentcampaignTrumphybridTwittertweet2016electionpublic opinionnewspaperdigital
Dual Screening During Presidential Debates
The impact of presidential debates on candidate evaluations remains an open topic. Research has long sought to identify the factors that matter most in citizens' responses to debate content, including what candidates say, how they say it, and the manner in which they appear. This study uses detailed codings of the first and third 2012 presidential debates to evaluate the impact of candidates' verbal and nonverbal behaviors on viewers' "second scr…
The politics of “Unfriending”
Equalization or normalization? Voter–candidate engagement on Twitter in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections
This study assesses the engagement between voters and political candidates on Twitter and examines its relationship with offline electoral factors such as campaign finances and election outcomes. An analysis of more than 5 million tweets from 302 candidates and their followers in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections reveals that there are large disparities in voter–candidate engagement across the candidates. The prominent candidates from bigger races …
Political Astroturfing on Twitter
Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral outcomes and other forms of political behavior. Yet, it is hard to evaluate the scope and effectiveness of political astroturfing without “ground truth” information, such as the verified identity of its agents and instigators. In this paper, we study the South …
Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness
How populists engage with media of various types, and are treated by those media, are questions of international interest. In the United States, Donald Trump stands out for both his populism-inflected campaign style and his success at attracting media attention. This article examines how interactions between candidate communications, social media, partisan media, and news media combined to shape attention to Trump, Clinton, Cruz, and Sanders duri…
The consequences of online partisan media
Significance Popular wisdom suggests that the internet plays a major role in influencing people’s attitudes and behaviors related to politics, such as by providing slanted sources of information. Yet evidence for this proposition is elusive due to methodological difficulties and the multifaceted nature of online media effects. This study breaks ground by demonstrating a nudge-like approach for exploring these effects through a combination of real…
The Exploration of How Social Media Cultivate College Student Smokers
The purpose of this study is to build a theoretical framework to account for how social media lead college students to smoke. Arguing critical concepts, such as valence of communication, impression management, perceived risks and benefits, this study develops the O 1 -S-R 1 -O 2 -R 2 model. For this, we test a separated model for smokers and nonsmokers. For smokers, the effect of exposure to pro-smoking content on smoking behavior is mediated by …
Do Online Voter Guides Empower Citizens
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs), which provide citizens with information on the party that best represents their political preferences, are often cited as evidence of the empowering capabilities of digital tools. Aside from the informational benefits of these voter guides, observational studies have suggested a strong effect on political participation and vote choice. However, existing impact evaluations have been limited by a reliance on conve…
Crossing lines for laughs
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data
In this note, we provide direct evidence of cheating in online assessments of political knowledge. We combine survey responses with web tracking data of a German and a US online panel to assess whether people turn to external sources for answers. We observe item-level prevalence rates of cheating that range from 0 to 12 percent depending on question type and difficulty, and find that 23 percent of respondents engage in cheating at least once acro…
Does Listening to Trustworthy News Affect Political Attitudes and Trust?
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