Jiyoung Lee | MCL

Selected Awards

2023 Top Early Career Scholar Award, D.C. Health Communication Conference (DCHC)

2022 Top Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Information Systems Division

2021 Top Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Communication and Technology (CAT) Division

2020 2nd place Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Political Communication Division

2018 1st place at 3-Minutes Thesis Competition, Korean American Communication Association (KACA)

2018 Catherine L. Covert Research Award, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University

2018 3-Minutes Thesis Semi-Finalist, Syracuse University

2017 1st place Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk (ComSHER) Division

2017 2nd place Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Korean American Communication Association (KACA) Division

2017 Catherine L. Covert Research Award, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University

2017 Top Student Paper, International Communication Association (ICA), Korean American Communication Association (KACA) Division

2017 1st Paper Award, Broadcast Education Association (BEA), News Division

2016 Best Graduate Student Thesis Prize, Ewha Womans University

2014-2016 Top Student Full-Scholarship (M.A.), Ewha Womans University

2014 Third Prize, South Korea-China-Japan Trilateral Conflict Thesis Competition, Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea

Grants, Fellowships, and Others

2024-2027 The malicious role of visuals in visual disinformation: Detecting visual disinformation features and exploring processing to establish the basis of the VDPS model, National Research Foundation of Korea, Outstanding Young Scientist Grants (PI)

2024 Toward healthy communication through deepfake self-modeling learning, Sungkyunkwan University (PI; co-PI: Dr. Simon Woo at Sungkyunkwan University)

2023 Virtual influencers for promoting K-contents: Focusing on the interaction between virtual influencers’ races and types, Korean American Communication Association, Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (co-PI; PI: Dr. Won-ki Moon at the University of Florida)

2022-2027 A study of DCI (Digital Communication Incivility) on digital communication: Development of scales and theoretical model and resilience of healthy communication, National Research Foundation of Korea (co-PI; PI: Dr. Heejo Keum at Sungkyunkwan University)

2021-2022 Testing eHealth literacy interventions on reducing misinformation sharing intentions, Institute for Communication & Information Research (ICIR), The University of Alabama (PI)

2020-2021 Social media interventions against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation: Focusing on rural populations, Quick Response Proposals: COVID-19, Natural Hazards Center (PI)

2020-2021 Fellow for the National Science Foundation-funded Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Fellowship Program, Natural Hazards Center

2018-2019 Dissertation Grant, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University

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