Bumsoo Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bumsoo Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bumsoo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pusan National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5069-298X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Does YouTube shape conspiracy mentality? A three-way interaction effect of partisan YouTube channel use, like-Minded discussion, and interest in politics
The Interplay of Agenda Building and Agenda Setting Across Policy, Media, and Public Agendas
This study explores the dynamics of agenda-setting among policy institutions, news media, and the public within a hyperconnected media environment. We analyzed government briefings and news content from 2023, alongside survey data on public agendas in South Korea. Our network-based modeling revealed positive correlations among the three agendas. Significantly, news media emerged as a crucial factor in issue ownership, with the public displaying a…
News-Driven Discourse and Support for Democratic Norms
This study examines how news-driven discourse supports democratic norms using online panel survey data (Ntime1 = 1,058; Ntime2 = 659) in 2023. The findings suggest that individuals incidentally exposed to news are more likely to leave comments or interact with other users’ comments. Political discourse in news-comment sections is negatively associated with the support for democratic norms. Although incidental news exposure leads to political disc…
Fact-Checking News Use and Political Misperception
Fact-checking can play an essential role in reducing political misperceptions. However, how effective it is in doing so has yet to be understood. This study uses data from a two-wave panel survey administered during the 2022 Korean presidential election (Wave 1: N = 1175, Wave 2: N = 948) to examine the role of fact-checking news in reducing political misperceptions in the sociopolitical context of South Korea. Based on the Orientation-Stimulus-R…
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations
Adopting an institutional logics perspective, this study examines various fact-checking practices in the context of three field-level logics that may shape these practices: a journalistic logic, a social-service logic, and a market logic. We conceptualize fact-checking sites as hybrid operations that are likely to be shaped by multiple logics, but which may show signs of standardization. Findings from a content analysis of diverse fact-checkers s…
Interplay of agenda setters in the digital age
How do the news media, academia, and the public view the metaverse? Evidence from South Korea
I Feel Burnout as a Journalist”
The pursuit of professionalism, an important value for journalists in a competitive media industry, can be burdensome. Therefore, this study gauges how professionalism is associated with journalistic burnout. Using responses from an online survey of 2014 Korean journalists, we test how various individual-level and organizational-level factors influence professionalism. Additionally, we examine how collaboration with other departments and informat…
Who says what? Social networks and digital inequalities in online political expression and content creation
Political expression has flourished online, especially on social media platforms, but there are also participation gaps associated with long-standing social and digital inequalities including socio-demographics, political capital, and internet practices. In this study, we examine how network characteristics such as size and diversity contribute to gaps in online political expression and content creation, as well as whether they mediate the strati…
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture
Portraits on social media are value-laden constructs. Whether documenting graduation or flexing in the gym, users express what they care about and present it for others to evaluate. Since “global” portrait genres are produced and consumed in different locales, their interpretation and evaluation may vary. We thus ask: What values do people identify in different types of social media portraits? Which evaluative criteria do they use when judging th…
“I Love This Photo! I Can Feel Their Hearts”. How Users Across the World Evaluate Social Media Portraiture
Personal portraits on social media are value-laden constructs. Whether documenting graduation or flexing in the gym, users express what they care about and present it for others to evaluate. Since “global” portrait genres are produced and consumed in different locales, their interpretation and evaluation may vary. We thus ask: What values do people identify in different types of social media portraits? Which evaluative criteria do they use when j…
A cognitive mechanism for democratic norms
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the cognitive process by which individuals who critically and mindfully evaluate news stories and who elaborate more on cross-cutting views will be more likely to have enhanced democratic norms. This study employs a national survey collected by the media institute of the Korean Broadcasting System in 2021. The findings of structural equation modeling (SEM) shed light on how individuals engage in co…
The value(s) of social media rituals
2000), we compare discursive topics, modes of ritual participation, and the values expressed in resolutions. Our findings indicate both that the ritual crosses cultures and that there are language-specific dynamics that do not map neatly onto established divisions between 'Eastern' and 'Western' value orientations. Instead, we identify three underlying tensions organizing the articulation of values: self-acceptance vs. self-improvement, public vs…
Unfriending effects
What did the pandemic teach us about effective health communication? Unpacking the Covid-19 infodemic
Study results have implications for tailoring health communication strategies to reach specific subgroups, including those more vulnerable to severe illness from COVID-19. A set of recommendations are provided to assist in campaign development
Networks and Selective Avoidance
From time to time, some social media users avoid content posted by specific people in their networks. Most research on such selective avoidance has focused on individual motivations and other psychological factors rather than on social network characteristics, and there is a need for a systematic analysis of the relationships between individuals’ social media networks and selective avoidance. This study fills that gap in the literature, drawing o…
Ideological and economic influences on journalistic autonomy and cynicism
This study examines how ideological and economic aspects of news media are related to journalists’ autonomy and cynicism, and whether organizational adaptation to digital environments moderates the effects of those ideological and financial influences. Using secondary data from journalists ( N = 1956) provided by the Korea Press Foundation, this study investigates the relationships among ideological differences between journalists and news organi…
What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values
Instagram is the place for the visualization of everything, from travel and food to abstract concepts such as freedom. Over the past decade, the platform has introduced a bottom-up process where users co-produce image repertoires that shape the boundaries of the imaginable. Drawing on an epistemology of social constructionism, we ask which visual repertoires are associated with value-related terms on Instagram. We studied 20 widely used value has…
The Effects of Virtual Reality News on Learning about Climate Change
Promoting public knowledge about climate is important for garnering support for climate-change policy, and researchers have begun to study the effectiveness of new technologies as learning tools. News organizations are increasingly producing immersive journalism, including virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and this study tests whether VR news can be an effective tool for learning about climate change. Based on results from a contro…
Mapping the transnational imaginary of social media genres
This article presents a transnational study of the classification and evaluation of social media content. We conducted a large-scale survey ( N = 4770) in five countries (Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and the United States) with open-ended questions about the types of content people like and dislike. Through iterative and inductive coding, we identified 29 topics, or broad areas of interest, and 213 recurrent genres, or narrower categories …
Exploring incivility and moral foundations toward Asians in English-speaking tweets in hate crime-reporting cities during the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This study aims to explore the extent to which Twitter users engaged in uncivil and morally questionable expressions in their comments about specific Asian countries and citizens. The integrated threat theory (ITT) was used to formulate questions surrounding incivility and moral foundations within Twitter discourses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected tweets and retweets posted by English-sp…
What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values
Instagram is the place for the visualization of everything, from travel and food to abstract concepts such as compassion or freedom. While visualizing the abstract is not new, the platform has introduced a bottom-up process where users co-produce image repertoires that shape the boundaries of the imaginable. In this paper, we address an unexplored question about this process: which visual repertoires are associated with value-related terms on Ins…
Effects of Social Grooming on Incivility in Covid-19
This study implements a computer-assisted content analysis to identify which social grooming factors reduce social media users' incivility when commenting or posting about the COVID-19 situation in South Korea. In addition, this study conducts semantic network analysis to interpret qualitatively how people express their thoughts. The findings suggest that social network size is a negative predictor of incivility. Moreover, Twitter users who have …
News Organizations and Social Cohesion in Small, Large, and Global-Local Communities
This study assesses the influence of community “structural pluralism” on local news media reporting, in the context of global networks. Adopting and adapting the community structural pluralism approach, we compare news content across low pluralism (small communities), high pluralism (urban communities), and “global-local” pluralism (urban and globally connected communities). Specifically, we examine how local news media’s role in aiding community…
Developing contemporary factors of political participation
Drawing from research in communication and political science, this study identifies five factors of political participation that address both traditional and more contemporary forms of political engagement. To begin, a questionnaire was developed and tested with respondents from two nationwide surveys who answered questions about their political participation (N = 476 in Sample 1, N = 490 in Sample 2). Next, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was …
The “Hallyu” phenomenon
This article examines the effect of the Korean pop culture phenomenon also known as “Hallyu” on the inbound tourism demand of Korea. “Hallyu” products are exported throughout Asia and have been growing over the past decade. Using a Bayesian autoregressive model, we empirically investigate the product placement effects of “Hallyu” explained by the parasocial theory of previous literature utilizing inbound tourist data and show that “Hallyu” effect…
Developing contemporary factors of political participation
Drawing from research in communication and political science, this study identifies five factors of political participation that address both traditional and more contemporary forms of political engagement. To begin, a questionnaire was developed and tested with respondents from two nationwide surveys who answered questions about their political participation (N = 476 in Sample 1, N = 490 in Sample 2). Next, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was …
Networks and Selective Avoidance
From time to time, some social media users avoid content posted by specific people in their networks. Most research on such selective avoidance has focused on individual motivations and other psychological factors rather than on social network characteristics, and there is a need for a systematic analysis of the relationships between individuals’ social media networks and selective avoidance. This study fills that gap in the literature, drawing o…
Social media and life satisfaction among college students
This study explored whether and how communication network heterogeneity on social networking services (SNSs) is associated with college students' satisfaction with campus life. In particular, it examined the mediating role of social self-efficacy in the relationship between SNS communication network heterogeneity and campus life satisfaction and whether such indirect effects of SNS network heterogeneity on life satisfaction via social self-effica…
Bringing class back in
This study examines the relationship between ethnicity and class in explaining the post-war experience of the Korean minority in Japan (zainichi Koreans) – Koreans who were taken forcefully, or migrated voluntarily, from Korea to Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–45) and settled in Japan after the Second World War and their descendants residing in Japan. Specifically, on the basis of statistical data and in-depth interviews, thi…
Testing political knowledge as a mediator of the relationship between news use and affective polarization
Fueled by news media, affective polarization is on the rise in the United States. This study tests the possibility that people learn to be polarized from news by investigating whether political knowledge mediates the relationship between news use and affective polarization. Analysis of the 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES) survey (N = 4,271) shows that news media use is associated with higher levels of political knowledge, and also t…
Mobile communication research in communication journals from 1999 to 2014
This study examined trends and patterns of mobile communication research across 10 communication journals between 1999 and 2014 with the intent to increase knowledge about mobile communication and to help scholars understand the future research directions. A total of 131 articles were coded for general information about journals, primary topic/context of the study, use of theories or models, research methods, units of analysis/types of sample, an…
Ideological and economic influences on journalistic autonomy and cynicism
This study examines how ideological and economic aspects of news media are related to journalists’ autonomy and cynicism, and whether organizational adaptation to digital environments moderates the effects of those ideological and financial influences. Using secondary data from journalists ( N = 1956) provided by the Korea Press Foundation, this study investigates the relationships among ideological differences between journalists and news organi…
Facebook versus Instagram
The main purpose of this study is to explore which factors of users' perceived gratifications and technology attributes are associated with changes in the usage level of Facebook and Instagram during the past three months. We identified common gratifications (social interaction, entertainment, passing time, browsing, need for recognition) as well as technology attributes (visual element, recommendation algorithm, privacy setting, openness, simult…
From Exclusion to Inclusion? The Legal Treatment of ‘Foreigners’ in Contemporary Japan
This article provides a survey of postwar Japan's policy toward ‘foreign’ settlers, focusing on the case of ‘zainichi Koreans’–Koreans who were taken forcefully, or migrated voluntarily, from Korea to Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–45) and settled down in Japan after World War II, and their descendants residing in Japan. The article explores how the Japanese government and society have treated them since the end of World War …
Mapping the transnational imaginary of social media genres
This article presents a transnational study of the classification and evaluation of social media content. We conducted a large-scale survey ( N = 4770) in five countries (Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and the United States) with open-ended questions about the types of content people like and dislike. Through iterative and inductive coding, we identified 29 topics, or broad areas of interest, and 213 recurrent genres, or narrower categories …
The Effects of Virtual Reality News on Learning about Climate Change
Promoting public knowledge about climate is important for garnering support for climate-change policy, and researchers have begun to study the effectiveness of new technologies as learning tools. News organizations are increasingly producing immersive journalism, including virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and this study tests whether VR news can be an effective tool for learning about climate change. Based on results from a contro…
Exploring incivility and moral foundations toward Asians in English-speaking tweets in hate crime-reporting cities during the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This study aims to explore the extent to which Twitter users engaged in uncivil and morally questionable expressions in their comments about specific Asian countries and citizens. The integrated threat theory (ITT) was used to formulate questions surrounding incivility and moral foundations within Twitter discourses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected tweets and retweets posted by English-sp…
News Organizations and Social Cohesion in Small, Large, and Global-Local Communities
This study assesses the influence of community “structural pluralism” on local news media reporting, in the context of global networks. Adopting and adapting the community structural pluralism approach, we compare news content across low pluralism (small communities), high pluralism (urban communities), and “global-local” pluralism (urban and globally connected communities). Specifically, we examine how local news media’s role in aiding community…
From Exclusion to Inclusion? The Legal Treatment of ‘Foreigners’ in Contemporary Japan
This article provides a survey of postwar Japan's policy toward ‘foreign’ settlers, focusing on the case of ‘zainichi Koreans’–Koreans who were taken forcefully, or migrated voluntarily, from Korea to Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–45) and settled down in Japan after World War II, and their descendants residing in Japan. The article explores how the Japanese government and society have treated them since the end of World War …
Bringing class back in
This study examines the relationship between ethnicity and class in explaining the post-war experience of the Korean minority in Japan (zainichi Koreans) – Koreans who were taken forcefully, or migrated voluntarily, from Korea to Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–45) and settled in Japan after the Second World War and their descendants residing in Japan. Specifically, on the basis of statistical data and in-depth interviews, thi…
College students’ social media use and communication network heterogeneity
Mobile communication research in communication journals from 1999 to 2014
This study examined trends and patterns of mobile communication research across 10 communication journals between 1999 and 2014 with the intent to increase knowledge about mobile communication and to help scholars understand the future research directions. A total of 131 articles were coded for general information about journals, primary topic/context of the study, use of theories or models, research methods, units of analysis/types of sample, an…
Facebook versus Instagram
The main purpose of this study is to explore which factors of users' perceived gratifications and technology attributes are associated with changes in the usage level of Facebook and Instagram during the past three months. We identified common gratifications (social interaction, entertainment, passing time, browsing, need for recognition) as well as technology attributes (visual element, recommendation algorithm, privacy setting, openness, simult…
Social media and life satisfaction among college students
This study explored whether and how communication network heterogeneity on social networking services (SNSs) is associated with college students' satisfaction with campus life. In particular, it examined the mediating role of social self-efficacy in the relationship between SNS communication network heterogeneity and campus life satisfaction and whether such indirect effects of SNS network heterogeneity on life satisfaction via social self-effica…
The “Hallyu” phenomenon
This article examines the effect of the Korean pop culture phenomenon also known as “Hallyu” on the inbound tourism demand of Korea. “Hallyu” products are exported throughout Asia and have been growing over the past decade. Using a Bayesian autoregressive model, we empirically investigate the product placement effects of “Hallyu” explained by the parasocial theory of previous literature utilizing inbound tourist data and show that “Hallyu” effect…
What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values
Instagram is the place for the visualization of everything, from travel and food to abstract concepts such as compassion or freedom. While visualizing the abstract is not new, the platform has introduced a bottom-up process where users co-produce image repertoires that shape the boundaries of the imaginable. In this paper, we address an unexplored question about this process: which visual repertoires are associated with value-related terms on Ins…
Effects of Social Grooming on Incivility in Covid-19
This study implements a computer-assisted content analysis to identify which social grooming factors reduce social media users' incivility when commenting or posting about the COVID-19 situation in South Korea. In addition, this study conducts semantic network analysis to interpret qualitatively how people express their thoughts. The findings suggest that social network size is a negative predictor of incivility. Moreover, Twitter users who have …
News Organizations and Social Cohesion in Small, Large, and Global-Local Communities
This study assesses the influence of community “structural pluralism” on local news media reporting, in the context of global networks. Adopting and adapting the community structural pluralism approach, we compare news content across low pluralism (small communities), high pluralism (urban communities), and “global-local” pluralism (urban and globally connected communities). Specifically, we examine how local news media’s role in aiding community…
Developing contemporary factors of political participation
Drawing from research in communication and political science, this study identifies five factors of political participation that address both traditional and more contemporary forms of political engagement. To begin, a questionnaire was developed and tested with respondents from two nationwide surveys who answered questions about their political participation (N = 476 in Sample 1, N = 490 in Sample 2). Next, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was …
Testing political knowledge as a mediator of the relationship between news use and affective polarization
Fueled by news media, affective polarization is on the rise in the United States. This study tests the possibility that people learn to be polarized from news by investigating whether political knowledge mediates the relationship between news use and affective polarization. Analysis of the 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES) survey (N = 4,271) shows that news media use is associated with higher levels of political knowledge, and also t…
What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values
Instagram is the place for the visualization of everything, from travel and food to abstract concepts such as freedom. Over the past decade, the platform has introduced a bottom-up process where users co-produce image repertoires that shape the boundaries of the imaginable. Drawing on an epistemology of social constructionism, we ask which visual repertoires are associated with value-related terms on Instagram. We studied 20 widely used value has…
The Effects of Virtual Reality News on Learning about Climate Change
Promoting public knowledge about climate is important for garnering support for climate-change policy, and researchers have begun to study the effectiveness of new technologies as learning tools. News organizations are increasingly producing immersive journalism, including virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and this study tests whether VR news can be an effective tool for learning about climate change. Based on results from a contro…
Mapping the transnational imaginary of social media genres
This article presents a transnational study of the classification and evaluation of social media content. We conducted a large-scale survey ( N = 4770) in five countries (Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and the United States) with open-ended questions about the types of content people like and dislike. Through iterative and inductive coding, we identified 29 topics, or broad areas of interest, and 213 recurrent genres, or narrower categories …
Exploring incivility and moral foundations toward Asians in English-speaking tweets in hate crime-reporting cities during the Covid-19 pandemic
Purpose This study aims to explore the extent to which Twitter users engaged in uncivil and morally questionable expressions in their comments about specific Asian countries and citizens. The integrated threat theory (ITT) was used to formulate questions surrounding incivility and moral foundations within Twitter discourses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected tweets and retweets posted by English-sp…
Unfriending effects
What did the pandemic teach us about effective health communication? Unpacking the Covid-19 infodemic
Study results have implications for tailoring health communication strategies to reach specific subgroups, including those more vulnerable to severe illness from COVID-19. A set of recommendations are provided to assist in campaign development
Networks and Selective Avoidance
From time to time, some social media users avoid content posted by specific people in their networks. Most research on such selective avoidance has focused on individual motivations and other psychological factors rather than on social network characteristics, and there is a need for a systematic analysis of the relationships between individuals’ social media networks and selective avoidance. This study fills that gap in the literature, drawing o…
Ideological and economic influences on journalistic autonomy and cynicism
This study examines how ideological and economic aspects of news media are related to journalists’ autonomy and cynicism, and whether organizational adaptation to digital environments moderates the effects of those ideological and financial influences. Using secondary data from journalists ( N = 1956) provided by the Korea Press Foundation, this study investigates the relationships among ideological differences between journalists and news organi…
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture
Portraits on social media are value-laden constructs. Whether documenting graduation or flexing in the gym, users express what they care about and present it for others to evaluate. Since “global” portrait genres are produced and consumed in different locales, their interpretation and evaluation may vary. We thus ask: What values do people identify in different types of social media portraits? Which evaluative criteria do they use when judging th…
“I Love This Photo! I Can Feel Their Hearts”. How Users Across the World Evaluate Social Media Portraiture
Personal portraits on social media are value-laden constructs. Whether documenting graduation or flexing in the gym, users express what they care about and present it for others to evaluate. Since “global” portrait genres are produced and consumed in different locales, their interpretation and evaluation may vary. We thus ask: What values do people identify in different types of social media portraits? Which evaluative criteria do they use when j…
A cognitive mechanism for democratic norms
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the cognitive process by which individuals who critically and mindfully evaluate news stories and who elaborate more on cross-cutting views will be more likely to have enhanced democratic norms. This study employs a national survey collected by the media institute of the Korean Broadcasting System in 2021. The findings of structural equation modeling (SEM) shed light on how individuals engage in co…
The value(s) of social media rituals
2000), we compare discursive topics, modes of ritual participation, and the values expressed in resolutions. Our findings indicate both that the ritual crosses cultures and that there are language-specific dynamics that do not map neatly onto established divisions between 'Eastern' and 'Western' value orientations. Instead, we identify three underlying tensions organizing the articulation of values: self-acceptance vs. self-improvement, public vs…
The Logics of Fact-Checking Website Operations
Adopting an institutional logics perspective, this study examines various fact-checking practices in the context of three field-level logics that may shape these practices: a journalistic logic, a social-service logic, and a market logic. We conceptualize fact-checking sites as hybrid operations that are likely to be shaped by multiple logics, but which may show signs of standardization. Findings from a content analysis of diverse fact-checkers s…
Sociology (24 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Social Media and Politics (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Social media (12 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)