Jiyoun Suk

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Institute

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Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

About

Jiyoun Suk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of
Connecticut, a core faculty member at the Program of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,
and a faculty affiliate at the Center for mHealth and Social Media. In her research, she looks at how the communication processes in the contemporary media environment shape civic trust,
activism, and political polarization, primarily employing computational methods. Her first line of research examines how networked communications have the potential to bring out voices of social justice and equality across social media platforms and around the globe, as in the case of the #MeToo movement. She currently examines cross-platform dynamics of digital activism and its surrounding challenges and contentions in a polarized media environment. For her second line of research, she looks at how local contexts and structural inequalities interact with the networked media environment to shape political opinions about different social groups. Her research has been published in Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Social Science Computer Review, Computational Communication Research, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, among many others. Her work has received numerous awards, including top paper awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)’s Political Communication Division and Mass Communication and Society Division.

Research Interests

• Computational Social Science
• Political Communication
• Digital politics and gender
• Social justice and activism

Research Links

Website

Google Scholar

Communication and Emerging Media (CEM) Lab

Communication Methods Innovation Lab (CMIL)