Sang Jung Kim

Toward Epistemic Resilience: Reimagining Visual Journalism Through Continuity

Sang Jung Kim

Reimagining visual journalism, then, seems to invite novelty. Yet every new idea also raises a more fundamental question: what should remain? If visual journalism is to be imagined anew, what allow...

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Networked Counterpublics and Contentious Publicity: A Cross-Platform Analysis of QAnon on Parler and Twitter

Sang Jung Kim, Jordan M. Foley, A. J. Bauer, Keyeun Lee

Extremist online movements often leverage social media affordances to shape in-group identity and influence broader publics through agenda-setting practices. This study uses QAnon as a case of a networked counterpublic to examine how these processes unfolded between 2018 and 2021. Drawing on …

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Visual Framing at Scale: A Theory-Driven Computational Framework for Analyzing Protest Imagery with Generative AI

Sang Jung Kim, Libin Chen

This study presents a theory-driven, three-stage computational framework for analyzing visual framing in protest imagery. Focusing on the Black Lives Matter movement, we examine how visual elements contribute to two well-established frames in protest media coverage: the protest paradigm and solidarity framing. …

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Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models for Visual Framing Analysis in News Imagery: A Theory-Driven Benchmark

Linqi Lu, Zihan Wan, Hyerin Kwon, Sang Jung Kim et autres

This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of multiple large vision-language models (LVLMs) for automated visual framing analysis in the context of news imagery about social movements. Specifically, we evaluate LVLMs (Gemma3-27B, GPT-4.1, InternVL3-14B, InternVL3-38B, and Qwen2.5-VL-72B) against human-annotated ground truth data, …

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Unmasking Deception

Sang Jung Kim, Yingdan Lu, Yilang Peng

Journalists in the digital media era have faced many challenges – including sorting online misinformation from accurate information in news reporting. In particular, the increasing presence of visual misinformation can be detrimental to journalism as visual information is especially powerful to audiences, …

Introduction to the Special Issue: The State of Visual Evidence

Sang Jung Kim, Alex Scott, Bingbing Zhang

Only recently have terms like deepfakes, cheapfakes, generative adversarial networks, and synthetic media become common in the vernacular of visual communication scholars. Although this technology ...

The Effects of Numerical Evidence and Message Framing in Communicating Vaccine Efficacy

Linqi Lu, Jiawei Liu, Sang Jung Kim, Ran Tao et autres

To examine the effects of numerical evidence and message framing in communicating vaccine efficacy information about infectious diseases, an online experiment presented to U.S. adults different versions of a vaccination promotional message that vary by numerical vaccine efficacy evidence: (low efficacy rate: …

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Replication Data to "Uncovering gender stereotypes in controversial science discourse: Evidence from computational text and visual analyses across digital platforms"

Kaiping Chen, Zening Duan, Sang Jung Kim

The purpose is to share the dataset & scripts to replicate the figures and tables in our forthcoming publication. You can use the Read Me Replication Instruction Document to get started.

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Uncovering gender stereotypes in controversial science discourse: evidence from computational text and visual analyses across digital platforms

Kaiping Chen, Zening Duan, Sang Jung Kim

Abstract This study examines how gender stereotypes are reflected in discourses around controversial science issues across two platforms, YouTube and TikTok. Utilizing the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects, we developed hypotheses and research questions about how content creators might use gender-related …

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Fighting Fire or Fighting War: Examining the Framing Effects of COVID-19 Metaphors

Ran Tao, Sang Jung Kim, Linqi Lu, Ji-Won Kang et autres

= 551 U.S. adults) to examine the impact of war metaphors compared to non-metaphorical literal frames and fire metaphors (e.g. "the pandemic is a wildfire"). War metaphors exhibited little advantage over literal frames across a variety of desirable outcomes (i.e. the adoption …

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Going Beyond Affective Polarization: How Emotions and Identities are Used in Anti-Vaccination TikTok Videos

Sang Jung Kim, Isabel I. Villanueva, Kaiping Chen

The rise of social media as a source of science and health information has brought challenges to informed citizenship and social trust due to the spread of misinformation, particularly anti-vaccination messages that incite hatred and discourage necessary health precautions. These messages often …

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Replication Data for "Beyond affective polarization: How emotion and identity cues are used in anti-vaccination conspiracies on TikTok"

Sang Jung Kim, Isabel I. Villanueva, Kaiping Chen

This deposit provides the analyzed dataset (anonymized) and the R scripts to reproduce the figure/tables in our manuscript. Our paper examines the emotional cues and identity cues used in TikTok videos about (anti) vaccination.

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