Na Yeon Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Na Yeon Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Na Yeon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE N Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yonsei University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1891-3591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
South Korean journalists’ role conceptions and problematic reporting practices and behaviors
This study explores how South Korean journalists’ conceptions of their professional roles are associated with problematic reporting practices and unethical behaviors. Regarding the problematic reporting practices, the study examined eleven ethically controversial practices, such as “getting employed to gain inside information,” “paying people for confidential information,” and “claiming to be someone else.” In response to unethical behaviors, con…
War on fake news? Media skepticism and exposure to politicians’ fake news accusations
This study investigates whether and to what extent individuals’ exposure to politicians’ accusations of ‘fake news’ was positively associated with their media skepticism and the role individuals’ partisanship played in the process. Very few studies have examined the effects of politicians’ fake news accusations on the public’s trust in the media. To fill this gap, a nationwide survey of 1,000 South Korean adults was conducted by one of the nation…
A Comparison of LTA Models with and Without Residual Correlation in Estimating Transition Probabilities
In longitudinal mixture models like latent transition analysis (LTA), identical items are often repeatedly measured across multiple time points to define latent classes and individuals’ similar response patterns across multiple time points, which attributes to residual correlations. Therefore, this study hypothesized that an LTA model assuming residual correlations among indicator variables measured repeatedly across multiple time points would pr…
The erosion of the gatekeeping function of photojournalists in the digital age
In today’s digital news media environment, where the number of professional staff photojournalists is declining, this study examines the extent to which images outsourced from external sources, including vested groups, are published, and how the visual quality of images varies by photo source: 1) staff photojournalist, 2) wire services, 3) social media, 4) news sources, and 5) citizens. Computational and statistical analyses of 7,651 online news …
Problematic smartphone use, online classes, and middle school students’ social-emotional competencies during Covid 19: Mediation by lifestyle and peers
This study aimed to investigate student- and school-level variables influencing middle school students’ social and emotional competencies and to verify the mediation effects among these variables. Data were obtained from the Seoul Education Longitudinal Study 2020, and a multilevel path analysis was conducted. The analysis revealed that at the student level, higher problematic smartphone use was associated with decreased exercise, reading, and sl…
The Emergence of “Online Influencers” and the Blurring of Lines between Objectivity and Subjectivity
The relationship between worry about technological progress and job engagement - Differences by type of job characteristics
Unraveling the Digital Threat: Exploring the Impact of Online Harassment on South Korean Journalists’ Professional Roles
This research examines whether and to what extent journalists are harassed online and the effects of online harassment on their professional roles. The study classifies online harassment against journalists into five types: insults, threats, privacy intrusion, sexual assault, and cyber-hacking. The findings reveal a positive correlation between online harassment and various adverse outcomes for journalists, including increased self-censorship, re…
Looking back at journalism ethics research over the past decade: An analysis of research in digital journalism , journalism , journalism practice , and journalism studies , 2013-2022
This study aims to identify research trends and central concepts in the field of journalism ethics over the past decade. Focusing on four major journals— Digital Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Practice, and Journalism Studies— this article presents key findings from a topic modeling analysis of articles published between 2013 and 2022. An analysis of 1170 journalism ethics-related studies revealed the most salient topic to be closely related …
Met expectations, job satisfaction, and intention to leave: The effects of discrepancy between job expectations and experiences on journalists’ intention to leave
This study examined whether and to what extent journalists’ unmet expectations about their work as journalists affect their job satisfaction and intention to leave based on the Met Expectation Model used in organizational behavioral research. Representative survey data of South Korean women journalists showed that before entering the news industry women journalists had three types of expectations about journalists’ work: Professionalism & Compens…
Digital Scarlet Letter on Journalists: Weaponized Harassment Against Journalists in South Korea
This article seeks to contribute to the existing research on journalist harassment by examining the experiences of Korean journalists who have faced online harassment. While extensive research has been conducted on this issue, there is a need for comparative studies to understand the unique patterns and underlying causes in different nations. The objectives of this article are to explore the experiences of Korean journalists subjected to online h…
How online harassment affects Korean journalists? The effects of online harassment on the journalists’ psychological problems and their intention to leave the profession
This study examined the effects of online harassment on journalists’ psychological trauma and their intention to leave work. It also investigated whether journalists’ psychological trauma mediates the effects of online harassment on their intention to leave the profession and whether gender makes a difference in that relationship. An online survey of 404 South Korean journalists provided three categories of online harassment that journalists expe…
How do South Korean podcasts reflect changes in journalistic norms and practices? Comparing podcasts of professional journalists with podcasts of non-journalists
The purpose of this study is to examine whether journalistic norms of objectivity and practices of gatekeeping are observed in news and current-affairs podcasts. By analyzing 101 episodes from three different types of news and political podcasts, which included 13,237 sentences related to the 2022 presidential election in South Korea, the findings showed that journalistic norms and practices were often blurred in podcasts. Specifically, this stud…
Why Are Women Journalists Leaving the Newsroom in South Korea? Gendered and Emerging Factors that Influence the Intention to Leave
The purpose of this study is to examine whether and to what extent traditionally gendered factors of newsroom culture as well as emerging factors that originated following the introduction of the new media environment are positively associated with South Korean women journalists’ intention to leave newsroom careers. In addition, this study explores what roles career generation gaps play in the relationship between traditionally gendered factors, …
Individualization or Privatization of the North Korean Leader? Different Types of Media Personalization About Kim Jong-Un
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un, until recently an important yet relatively unknown figure in international politics, has begun to receive increased attention in the international media. Based on the concept of media personalization, this study examined whether the news media focused on Kim Jong-Un’s political traits and activities – i.e., media individualization - or on his apolitical characteristics – i.e., media privatization. By content anal…
Partisan online media use, political misinformation, and attitudes toward partisan issues
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether or to what extent partisan online media use is positively associated with people’s obtaining partisan misinformation and forming partisanship-consistent attitudes toward political issues. This study examines whether people are more likely to obtain attitude-consistent misinformation that undercuts their partisan beliefs. Also examined is the role that misinformation plays in the relationship bet…
Headlines for summarizing news or attracting readers’ attention? Comparing news headlines in South Korean newspapers with the New York Times
This study examined whether the headlines of newspapers in South Korea and the New York Times differed in terms of the semantic function – that is, summarizing news stories and the pragmatic function – that is, attracting readers’ attention. The New York Times is regarded as one of the news organizations that practices quality journalism, yet it also faces the pressure of market-driven journalism that focuses more on financial interests than the …
Public Voices Muted in Economic News: A Content Analysis of Public and Elite Sources in South Korean Newspapers
This study explores the extent to which public and elite sources are used in economic news. A content analysis of the economic coverage of three major South Korean national newspapers published between 1994 and 2014 found that elite sources were more prominent in South Korean economic news. More important, although public sources increased slightly in the economic news over three time periods (1994, 2004, and 2014) within a period of 20 years, th…
Structure and returns: Toward a refined understanding of Internet use and social capital
This study carves out a promising theoretical space to investigate how general and specific Internet use may facilitate various returns of social capital by separating the structural embeddedness of social capital from the returns of social capital. Drawing on a randomly sampled survey of adult residents in a major US city, we examine how general Internet use, interacted with network diversity, contributes to various returns of social capital: bo…
How agenda setting works: A dual path model and motivated reasoning
This study examines whether agenda-setting effects occur along dual paths and what role motivated goals play in that process. Based on an experimental design that employed a specially constructed news website, this study examined whether dual paths of agenda setting – a casual path and deliberative path – depend on types of motivated goals, that is, whether individuals have motivations to look for accurate news or like-minded news. The role that …
How do journalists leverage Twitter? Expressive and consumptive use of Twitter
This study examined factors that affect journalists' Twitter use behaviors based on the framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). A survey of Korean journalists supported that TPB is a useful theoretical framework for understanding journalists' Twitter use behaviors. This study found that three TPB variables – positive attitudes, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control – are positively associated with journalists' general Twitt…
Squeezing out economic news for business news? Changes in economic journalism over the past 20 years in South Korea
The purpose of this study is to examine how economic journalism – news about economic issues – has changed over the past 20 years under pressure of the financial crisis experienced by newspaper companies in South Korea. A content analysis of 2442 articles published in South Korea’s three daily newspapers with the greatest circulation showed that between 1994 and 2014 the news topics and sources of economic issues changed significantly. Findings r…
Tweeting the public: Journalists' Twitter use, attitudes toward the public's tweets, and the relationship with the public
This paper examines the associations between Korean journalists' perceived attitudes toward the public, their relationship with the public, and their Twitter activities. Reading and following the public's tweets was the most frequent activity for journalists on Twitter, followed by Twitter use for their personal life, the promotion of their and their organization's news stories, and job-related interaction activities with the public. Results also…
Two Different Motivations on Agenda Setting: Need for Orientation and Motivated Reasoning
This study seeks to understand how two different types of motivations that are closely related to information-seeking behaviors—the need for orientation (NFO) and motivated reasoning—influence the agenda-setting process. By recording participants’ information-seeking behaviors on a custom-designed Web site, this study shows how both NFO and motivated reasoning are related in different ways to individuals’ information-seeking behaviors, thereby le…
Tweeting public affairs or personal affairs? Journalists’ tweets, interactivity, and ideology
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether journalists in South Korea use Twitter as a public sphere and what factors may be associated with journalists’ Twitter use. Combining a content analysis and an additional survey of Korean journalists, this study examines to what extent journalists talk about public affairs on Twitter and interact with others, and what factors influence their Twitter use. A content analysis of journalists’ tweets…
Tweeting public affairs or personal affairs? Journalists’ tweets, interactivity, and ideology
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether journalists in South Korea use Twitter as a public sphere and what factors may be associated with journalists’ Twitter use. Combining a content analysis and an additional survey of Korean journalists, this study examines to what extent journalists talk about public affairs on Twitter and interact with others, and what factors influence their Twitter use. A content analysis of journalists’ tweets…
Headlines for summarizing news or attracting readers’ attention? Comparing news headlines in South Korean newspapers with the New York Times
This study examined whether the headlines of newspapers in South Korea and the New York Times differed in terms of the semantic function – that is, summarizing news stories and the pragmatic function – that is, attracting readers’ attention. The New York Times is regarded as one of the news organizations that practices quality journalism, yet it also faces the pressure of market-driven journalism that focuses more on financial interests than the …
How online harassment affects Korean journalists? The effects of online harassment on the journalists’ psychological problems and their intention to leave the profession
This study examined the effects of online harassment on journalists’ psychological trauma and their intention to leave work. It also investigated whether journalists’ psychological trauma mediates the effects of online harassment on their intention to leave the profession and whether gender makes a difference in that relationship. An online survey of 404 South Korean journalists provided three categories of online harassment that journalists expe…
Squeezing out economic news for business news? Changes in economic journalism over the past 20 years in South Korea
The purpose of this study is to examine how economic journalism – news about economic issues – has changed over the past 20 years under pressure of the financial crisis experienced by newspaper companies in South Korea. A content analysis of 2442 articles published in South Korea’s three daily newspapers with the greatest circulation showed that between 1994 and 2014 the news topics and sources of economic issues changed significantly. Findings r…
Two Different Motivations on Agenda Setting: Need for Orientation and Motivated Reasoning
This study seeks to understand how two different types of motivations that are closely related to information-seeking behaviors—the need for orientation (NFO) and motivated reasoning—influence the agenda-setting process. By recording participants’ information-seeking behaviors on a custom-designed Web site, this study shows how both NFO and motivated reasoning are related in different ways to individuals’ information-seeking behaviors, thereby le…
Why Are Women Journalists Leaving the Newsroom in South Korea? Gendered and Emerging Factors that Influence the Intention to Leave
The purpose of this study is to examine whether and to what extent traditionally gendered factors of newsroom culture as well as emerging factors that originated following the introduction of the new media environment are positively associated with South Korean women journalists’ intention to leave newsroom careers. In addition, this study explores what roles career generation gaps play in the relationship between traditionally gendered factors, …
How do journalists leverage Twitter? Expressive and consumptive use of Twitter
This study examined factors that affect journalists' Twitter use behaviors based on the framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). A survey of Korean journalists supported that TPB is a useful theoretical framework for understanding journalists' Twitter use behaviors. This study found that three TPB variables – positive attitudes, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control – are positively associated with journalists' general Twitt…
Met expectations, job satisfaction, and intention to leave: The effects of discrepancy between job expectations and experiences on journalists’ intention to leave
This study examined whether and to what extent journalists’ unmet expectations about their work as journalists affect their job satisfaction and intention to leave based on the Met Expectation Model used in organizational behavioral research. Representative survey data of South Korean women journalists showed that before entering the news industry women journalists had three types of expectations about journalists’ work: Professionalism & Compens…
How do South Korean podcasts reflect changes in journalistic norms and practices? Comparing podcasts of professional journalists with podcasts of non-journalists
The purpose of this study is to examine whether journalistic norms of objectivity and practices of gatekeeping are observed in news and current-affairs podcasts. By analyzing 101 episodes from three different types of news and political podcasts, which included 13,237 sentences related to the 2022 presidential election in South Korea, the findings showed that journalistic norms and practices were often blurred in podcasts. Specifically, this stud…
Partisan online media use, political misinformation, and attitudes toward partisan issues
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether or to what extent partisan online media use is positively associated with people’s obtaining partisan misinformation and forming partisanship-consistent attitudes toward political issues. This study examines whether people are more likely to obtain attitude-consistent misinformation that undercuts their partisan beliefs. Also examined is the role that misinformation plays in the relationship bet…
How agenda setting works: A dual path model and motivated reasoning
This study examines whether agenda-setting effects occur along dual paths and what role motivated goals play in that process. Based on an experimental design that employed a specially constructed news website, this study examined whether dual paths of agenda setting – a casual path and deliberative path – depend on types of motivated goals, that is, whether individuals have motivations to look for accurate news or like-minded news. The role that …
Tweeting the public: Journalists' Twitter use, attitudes toward the public's tweets, and the relationship with the public
This paper examines the associations between Korean journalists' perceived attitudes toward the public, their relationship with the public, and their Twitter activities. Reading and following the public's tweets was the most frequent activity for journalists on Twitter, followed by Twitter use for their personal life, the promotion of their and their organization's news stories, and job-related interaction activities with the public. Results also…
Two Different Motivations on Agenda Setting: Need for Orientation and Motivated Reasoning
This study seeks to understand how two different types of motivations that are closely related to information-seeking behaviors—the need for orientation (NFO) and motivated reasoning—influence the agenda-setting process. By recording participants’ information-seeking behaviors on a custom-designed Web site, this study shows how both NFO and motivated reasoning are related in different ways to individuals’ information-seeking behaviors, thereby le…
Tweeting public affairs or personal affairs? Journalists’ tweets, interactivity, and ideology
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether journalists in South Korea use Twitter as a public sphere and what factors may be associated with journalists’ Twitter use. Combining a content analysis and an additional survey of Korean journalists, this study examines to what extent journalists talk about public affairs on Twitter and interact with others, and what factors influence their Twitter use. A content analysis of journalists’ tweets…
How do journalists leverage Twitter? Expressive and consumptive use of Twitter
This study examined factors that affect journalists' Twitter use behaviors based on the framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). A survey of Korean journalists supported that TPB is a useful theoretical framework for understanding journalists' Twitter use behaviors. This study found that three TPB variables – positive attitudes, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control – are positively associated with journalists' general Twitt…
Squeezing out economic news for business news? Changes in economic journalism over the past 20 years in South Korea
The purpose of this study is to examine how economic journalism – news about economic issues – has changed over the past 20 years under pressure of the financial crisis experienced by newspaper companies in South Korea. A content analysis of 2442 articles published in South Korea’s three daily newspapers with the greatest circulation showed that between 1994 and 2014 the news topics and sources of economic issues changed significantly. Findings r…
Structure and returns: Toward a refined understanding of Internet use and social capital
This study carves out a promising theoretical space to investigate how general and specific Internet use may facilitate various returns of social capital by separating the structural embeddedness of social capital from the returns of social capital. Drawing on a randomly sampled survey of adult residents in a major US city, we examine how general Internet use, interacted with network diversity, contributes to various returns of social capital: bo…
How agenda setting works: A dual path model and motivated reasoning
This study examines whether agenda-setting effects occur along dual paths and what role motivated goals play in that process. Based on an experimental design that employed a specially constructed news website, this study examined whether dual paths of agenda setting – a casual path and deliberative path – depend on types of motivated goals, that is, whether individuals have motivations to look for accurate news or like-minded news. The role that …
Partisan online media use, political misinformation, and attitudes toward partisan issues
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether or to what extent partisan online media use is positively associated with people’s obtaining partisan misinformation and forming partisanship-consistent attitudes toward political issues. This study examines whether people are more likely to obtain attitude-consistent misinformation that undercuts their partisan beliefs. Also examined is the role that misinformation plays in the relationship bet…
Headlines for summarizing news or attracting readers’ attention? Comparing news headlines in South Korean newspapers with the New York Times
This study examined whether the headlines of newspapers in South Korea and the New York Times differed in terms of the semantic function – that is, summarizing news stories and the pragmatic function – that is, attracting readers’ attention. The New York Times is regarded as one of the news organizations that practices quality journalism, yet it also faces the pressure of market-driven journalism that focuses more on financial interests than the …
Public Voices Muted in Economic News: A Content Analysis of Public and Elite Sources in South Korean Newspapers
This study explores the extent to which public and elite sources are used in economic news. A content analysis of the economic coverage of three major South Korean national newspapers published between 1994 and 2014 found that elite sources were more prominent in South Korean economic news. More important, although public sources increased slightly in the economic news over three time periods (1994, 2004, and 2014) within a period of 20 years, th…
Individualization or Privatization of the North Korean Leader? Different Types of Media Personalization About Kim Jong-Un
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un, until recently an important yet relatively unknown figure in international politics, has begun to receive increased attention in the international media. Based on the concept of media personalization, this study examined whether the news media focused on Kim Jong-Un’s political traits and activities – i.e., media individualization - or on his apolitical characteristics – i.e., media privatization. By content anal…
Why Are Women Journalists Leaving the Newsroom in South Korea? Gendered and Emerging Factors that Influence the Intention to Leave
The purpose of this study is to examine whether and to what extent traditionally gendered factors of newsroom culture as well as emerging factors that originated following the introduction of the new media environment are positively associated with South Korean women journalists’ intention to leave newsroom careers. In addition, this study explores what roles career generation gaps play in the relationship between traditionally gendered factors, …
Digital Scarlet Letter on Journalists: Weaponized Harassment Against Journalists in South Korea
This article seeks to contribute to the existing research on journalist harassment by examining the experiences of Korean journalists who have faced online harassment. While extensive research has been conducted on this issue, there is a need for comparative studies to understand the unique patterns and underlying causes in different nations. The objectives of this article are to explore the experiences of Korean journalists subjected to online h…
How online harassment affects Korean journalists? The effects of online harassment on the journalists’ psychological problems and their intention to leave the profession
This study examined the effects of online harassment on journalists’ psychological trauma and their intention to leave work. It also investigated whether journalists’ psychological trauma mediates the effects of online harassment on their intention to leave the profession and whether gender makes a difference in that relationship. An online survey of 404 South Korean journalists provided three categories of online harassment that journalists expe…
How do South Korean podcasts reflect changes in journalistic norms and practices? Comparing podcasts of professional journalists with podcasts of non-journalists
The purpose of this study is to examine whether journalistic norms of objectivity and practices of gatekeeping are observed in news and current-affairs podcasts. By analyzing 101 episodes from three different types of news and political podcasts, which included 13,237 sentences related to the 2022 presidential election in South Korea, the findings showed that journalistic norms and practices were often blurred in podcasts. Specifically, this stud…
Unraveling the Digital Threat: Exploring the Impact of Online Harassment on South Korean Journalists’ Professional Roles
This research examines whether and to what extent journalists are harassed online and the effects of online harassment on their professional roles. The study classifies online harassment against journalists into five types: insults, threats, privacy intrusion, sexual assault, and cyber-hacking. The findings reveal a positive correlation between online harassment and various adverse outcomes for journalists, including increased self-censorship, re…
Looking back at journalism ethics research over the past decade: An analysis of research in digital journalism , journalism , journalism practice , and journalism studies , 2013-2022
This study aims to identify research trends and central concepts in the field of journalism ethics over the past decade. Focusing on four major journals— Digital Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Practice, and Journalism Studies— this article presents key findings from a topic modeling analysis of articles published between 2013 and 2022. An analysis of 1170 journalism ethics-related studies revealed the most salient topic to be closely related …
Met expectations, job satisfaction, and intention to leave: The effects of discrepancy between job expectations and experiences on journalists’ intention to leave
This study examined whether and to what extent journalists’ unmet expectations about their work as journalists affect their job satisfaction and intention to leave based on the Met Expectation Model used in organizational behavioral research. Representative survey data of South Korean women journalists showed that before entering the news industry women journalists had three types of expectations about journalists’ work: Professionalism & Compens…
Problematic smartphone use, online classes, and middle school students’ social-emotional competencies during Covid 19: Mediation by lifestyle and peers
This study aimed to investigate student- and school-level variables influencing middle school students’ social and emotional competencies and to verify the mediation effects among these variables. Data were obtained from the Seoul Education Longitudinal Study 2020, and a multilevel path analysis was conducted. The analysis revealed that at the student level, higher problematic smartphone use was associated with decreased exercise, reading, and sl…
The Emergence of “Online Influencers” and the Blurring of Lines between Objectivity and Subjectivity
The relationship between worry about technological progress and job engagement - Differences by type of job characteristics
South Korean journalists’ role conceptions and problematic reporting practices and behaviors
This study explores how South Korean journalists’ conceptions of their professional roles are associated with problematic reporting practices and unethical behaviors. Regarding the problematic reporting practices, the study examined eleven ethically controversial practices, such as “getting employed to gain inside information,” “paying people for confidential information,” and “claiming to be someone else.” In response to unethical behaviors, con…
War on fake news? Media skepticism and exposure to politicians’ fake news accusations
This study investigates whether and to what extent individuals’ exposure to politicians’ accusations of ‘fake news’ was positively associated with their media skepticism and the role individuals’ partisanship played in the process. Very few studies have examined the effects of politicians’ fake news accusations on the public’s trust in the media. To fill this gap, a nationwide survey of 1,000 South Korean adults was conducted by one of the nation…
A Comparison of LTA Models with and Without Residual Correlation in Estimating Transition Probabilities
In longitudinal mixture models like latent transition analysis (LTA), identical items are often repeatedly measured across multiple time points to define latent classes and individuals’ similar response patterns across multiple time points, which attributes to residual correlations. Therefore, this study hypothesized that an LTA model assuming residual correlations among indicator variables measured repeatedly across multiple time points would pr…
The erosion of the gatekeeping function of photojournalists in the digital age
In today’s digital news media environment, where the number of professional staff photojournalists is declining, this study examines the extent to which images outsourced from external sources, including vested groups, are published, and how the visual quality of images varies by photo source: 1) staff photojournalist, 2) wire services, 3) social media, 4) news sources, and 5) citizens. Computational and statistical analyses of 7,651 online news …
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Social Media and Politics (13 works) · Media Studies and Communication (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Journalism (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Law (7 works)