Dr. Jinhee Kim joined the faculty of Pohang University of Science and Technology in September 2011, after working as an Assistant Professor in School of Communication at Cleveland State University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor in School of Communication Studies at Kent State University. Her research program explores media issues pertaining to risk, entertainment, emotions, and cultural differences with a social scientific approach. She is interested in examining media-use behavior for the purpose of emotion regulation (or coping/well-being) and uncertainty reduction, appeals of entertainment media, and cross-cultural psychology in mediated communication. Her recent research looked at online group identification to alleviate self-uncertainty during earthquake disasters, entertainment message choice behavior to cope with negative discrete emotions (e.g., sadness)/perceived threats (e.g., perceived economic threat during the 2008 financial crisis)/breakups, and mixed responses of joy and sorrow from consuming entertainment messages between cultural groups. Her work has been presented at International Communication Association (ICA) and Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) and published in Media Psychology, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Human Communication Research, Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, Computers in Human Behavior, Mass Communication and Society, among others.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor (2022.9 - present), Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Associate Professor (2015.9 – 2022.8), Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Assistant Professor (2011.9 – 2015.8), Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Assistant Professor (2008.8 – 2011.5), School of Communication, Cleveland State University, Ohio
Visiting Assistant Professor (2007.8 - 2008.5), School of Communication Studies, Kent State University, Ohio
OTHER EXPERIENCES
Associate Editor, <Mass Communication and Society>
Editorial Board Member <Journal of Media Psychology>
Editorial Board Member <Asian Communication Research>
Guest Co-editor with Özen Odağ, Frank Schneider, Larisa Buhin, "Media Use and Political Engagement: Cross-Cultural Approaches," Special Section in the International Journal of Communication (2023).
Network member, Young Scholar Network on Culture and Media. PI: Özen Odağ (Touro College Berlin). Supported by German Research Foundation (2017-2019)
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mass Communications, Pennsylvania State University (University Park)
M.A., Telecommunication and Film, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)
M.A., Mass Communications (Specialization: Broadcasting), Korea University (Seoul, Korea)
B.A., Education (Specialization & Teacher Certificate: Home Economics) with a minor in Mass Communications, Korea University (Seoul, Korea)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social and psychological processing of media
The appeal of entertainment media
Cross-cultural psychology in mediated communication
Media, intergroup relations, and group identity
Risk communication
CONTACT
Jinhee Kim, Ph.D.
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Pohang University of Science and Tecnology
San 31 Hyoja-Dong, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, South Korea
E-mail: jinheekim@postech.ac.kr
Office: +82-54-279-2023
Fax: +82-54-279-3899
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