Jisoo Kim is a political communication scholar who studies how communication environments shape democracy. She focuses on how multimedia platforms and media messages influence what people believe, how they discuss politics, and how they engage in civic life.
Her recent work examines how the broader communication ecology influences public perceptions of polarization and politicization—and how these perceptions, in turn, affect people’s willingness to share opinions, engage in conversation, navigate relationships with others, or take political action.
She uses a range of research methods, including experiments, surveys, content analysis, social media analysis, and computational methods. Her scholarship has appeared in Information, Communication & Society, Political Communication, Communication Studies, and Political Analysis.
She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an M.A. from Seoul National University, and dual B.A. degrees from Sogang University in South Korea.
Selected Publications
Duan, Z., Shao, A., Hu, Y., Lee, H., Liao, X.,Suh, Y. J., Kim, J., Yang, K., Chen, K., & Yang, S. (2025). Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Latent Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Appeals. Political Analysis. doi:10.1017/pan.2025.6
Kim, J., Zhang, Y., & Borah, P. (2024). Second-level agenda setting of news media and public policy on social media discourse across platforms: Immigration during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2380759.
Kim, J. & Rojas, H. (2024). How Does Political Communication Relate to Perceived Extremity of Partisans and Their Divides? From Communication to Polarization Perceptions to Political Engagement. Communication Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2392909.
Li, J., Borah, P., Kang, J., Kim, J., Okada, T., Shen, L., Tao, R., & Yang, S.(2024). Does news literacy help combat misinformation? The interplay of news literacy, political ideology, and ideological media use on COVID-19 misperceptions. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2341000.
Jiang, X., Zhang, Y., Kim, J., Shah, D., & Pevehouse, J.(2023). Talking Past Each Other: Expression Polarization in Immigration Discourses on Twitter. Political Communication, 41(2), 244–268. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2263400.