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  1. Audience engagement in “embitterment” news: Analyzing the emotional correlation function in South Korean news coverage

    Article • Atlantic Journal of Communication, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  2. More Sources Create Greater Audience Engagement: An Investigation into the Relationship Between the Number of News Sources and Audience Responses

    Article • Communication Research, February 2025, SAGE Publications

    Youngkee Ju

  3. Audience engagement in outrage factors embedded in COVID‐19 news: A content analysis of South Korean news articles and reader comments

    Article • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, April 2024, Wiley

    Youngkee Ju

  4. Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks: How Repeated Recommendations for Suicide Reporting Drive the Quality of Suicide News in South Korea

    Article • OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Youngkee Ju

  5. The Outrage Effect of Personal Stake, Effect on Children, Dread, and Controllability on COVID-19 Risk Perception Moderated by Media Use

    Article • Health Communication, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  6. How Do Recommended Elements in Suicide News Coverage Work? An Investigation of the Effect of Responsible Reporting and Readers’ Reflectiveness on Suicide Prevention

    Article • Health Communication, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  7. Comparing the Effect of Declarative vs. Procedural Knowledge on Health Behavior Moderated by Outrage Factors

    Article • Health Communication, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  8. It's Politics, Isn't It? Investigating Direct and Indirect Influences of Political Orientation on Risk Perception of COVID‐19

    Article • Risk Analysis, August 2021, Wiley

    Youngkee Ju

  9. Investigating the negative-cognitive-triad-hypothesis of news choice in Germany and South Korea: does depression predict selective exposure to negative news?

    Article • The Social Science Journal, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  10. The Outrage Effect of Personal Stake, Familiarity, Effects on Children, and Fairness on Climate Change Risk Perception Moderated by Political Orientation

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Youngkee Ju

  11. Modeling embitterment dynamics: The influence of negative life events and social support mediated by belief in a just world

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, September 2020, Elsevier

    Youngkee Ju

  12. The Outrage Effect of Personal Stake, Dread, and Moral Nature on Fine Dust Risk Perception Moderated by Media Use

    Article • Health Communication, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  13. Exploring News Media Epidemiology of “Embitterment”: A Content Analysis of Korean News Coverage between 1990 and 2018

    Article • Health Communication, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  14. Comparing Outrage Effect on the Risk Perception of Climate Change versus Fine Dust

    Article • Health Communication, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  15. The Effects of Social Determinants on Public Health Emergency Preparedness Mediated by Health Communication: The 2015 MERS Outbreak in South Korea

    Article • Health Communication, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  16. Salience of public leaders’ “meaning making” in news coverage of a health crisis

    Article • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, January 2019, Wiley

    Youngkee Ju

  17. Outrage effects on food risk perception as moderated by risk attitude

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  18. Preferring negative or positive news? A closer examination of journalistic negativity in a health crisis

    Article • Atlantic Journal of Communication, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  19. Developing a gist-extraction typology based on journalistic lead writing: A case of food risk news

    Article • Heliyon, August 2018, Elsevier

    Youngkee Ju

  20. Interaction of individual framing and political orientation in guiding climate change risk perception

    Article • Journal of Risk Research, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  21. News Framing and Efficacy Information in Climate Change News Coverage

    Article • Journal of Communication Science, September 2017, Korea Regional Communication Research Association

    Youngkee Ju

  22. MERS editorial content analysis

    Article • Science Communication, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Youngkee Ju

  23. Comprehensive Examination of Heavy Metal Risk Perception : Focusing on Affect, Trust, and Health Literacy

    Article • The Korean Journal of Public Health, September 2016, Institute of Health and Environment

    Youngkee Ju

  24. A Comprehensive Examination of the Determinants for Food Risk Perception: Focusing on Psychometric Factors, Perceivers’ Characteristics, and Media Use

    Article • Health Communication, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  25. The Influence of Outrage Factors on Journalists’ Gatekeeping of Health Risks

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    Youngkee Ju

  26. Outrage Factors in Government Press Releases of Food Risk and Their Influence on News Media Coverage

    Article • Journal of Health Communication, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  27. Issue obtrusiveness and negative bias: exploring the moderating factors for asymmetric news coverage of the economy

    Article • Asian Journal of Communication, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Youngkee Ju

  28. News Media's Surveillance and Gatekeeping in Representing Health Risk

    Article • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, January 2010, Korean Society for Preventive Medicine (KAMJE)

    Youngkee Ju

  29. The Asymmetry in Economic News Coverage and its Impact on Public Perception in South Korea

    Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research, April 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Youngkee Ju

  30. Policy or Politics? A Study of the Priming of Media Frames of the South Korean President in the Public Mind

    Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research, March 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Youngkee Ju

  31. News media's asymmetric response to the economy and its impact on the public perception

    Article • University of Missouri Libraries

    Youngkee Ju