Student Profiles

Email: rji3@illinois.edu Research Interests My research centers on the psychology of persuasion in digital media, with a particular focus on social platforms. I investigate how individuals interpret and react to persuasive messages such as health-related messages and advertisements. Additionally… Read More

Email: yanbol2@illinois.edu Research Interests My research interests lie at the intersection of computational communication and political communication. Specifically, I am interested in using computational methods to learn about online misinformation and incivility contagion inside and between… Read More

Email: spark110@illinois.edu Research Interests Se Il is a doctoral student at the Institute of Communications Research (ICR). Se Il’s interdisciplinary research focuses on persuasive messages in the context of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Metaverse, and Web… Read More

Email: wd12@illinois.edu Research Interests Weiting Du is a first-year Ph.D. student at the Institute of Communications Research. Weiting’s research interests encompass media effects and risk communication under the context of climate change, with a particular interest in climate inactions. In… Read More

Email: vp21@illinois.edu Research Interests Veranika’s master’s thesis focused on the topic of time perception during media use. Her current research focuses on time perception, message fatigue, and computational approaches to communications research.  Veranika completed her bachelor's degree in… Read More

Email: zixuan26@illinois.edu Research Interests Melodie is a doctoral student at the Institute of Communications Research, primarily researching the social and psychological effects of media messages and digital media use. Her specific interests revolve around the interactions between interactive… Read More

Email: jz150@illinois.edu Research Interests Junwei's research interests are centered around the relations between subjectivity, governmentality, global media network and the network’s interpretive power, which eradicate the boundary between public/private space, human/posthuman and self-… Read More

Email: yewonh2@illinois.edu Research Interests Cuteness, aesthetics, affect, game, critical theory, cultural studies, cultural analysis Recent Publications/Presentations Puzar, Aljosa and Yewon Hong. “Korean Cuties: Understanding the Performed Winsomeness (Aegyo) of South Korean Women.” Asia… Read More

Email: weixiao8@Illinois.edu Research Interests Wei Xiao is a Ph.D student in ICR. She is broadly interested in exploring alternative approaches to the reasoning behind sharing dis/misinformation to debunk dis/misinformation or inoculate people against misinformation. Her research also involves… Read More

Email: nisapr2@illinois.edu Research Interests Nisa Rahman is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Communications Research. Nisa’s research interest lies in emerging technologies and their effect on social behavior in the context of health communication. This exploration takes shape through… Read More