UMass Boston

Social Media for Public Health Promotion, Communication Technologies in Health and Wellbeing , Health Behavior and Persuasion

PhD (Communication), University of Southern California, 2022

MA (Communication), Yonsei University, 2016

BA (Mass Communication), Yonsei University, 2014

• Kim, H. M., Xu, Y., & Wang, Y. (forthcoming). Overcoming the mental health stigma through m-Health apps: Results from the healthy minds study. Telemedicine and e-Health. DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2021.0418
• Shin, J., Yang, A., Liu, W., Kim, H. M., Zhou, A., & Sun, J. (forthcoming). Mask-wearing as a partisan issue: Social identity and communication of party norms among political elites. Social Media + Society. DOI: 10.1177/20563051221086233
• Kim, H. M., Kim, E., & Murphy, S. T. (2022). Testing the effectiveness of message framing and episodic future thinking in promoting HPV vaccination via anticipated regret. Health Communication, 37(5), 515-534. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2020.1855744
• Wang, Y., Xu, Y., Wu, J., Kim, H. M., Fetterman, L., Hong, T., McLaughlin, M. (2022). Moralization of e-cigarette use and regulation: A mixed-method computational analysis of opinion polarization. Health Communication. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2022.2027640
• Kim, H. M., Saffer, A. J., Liu, W., Sun, J., Li, Y., Zhen, L., & Yang, A. (2022). How public health agencies break through COVID-19 conversations: A strategic network approach to public engagement. Health Communication, 37(10), 1276-1284. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2021.1886393
• Liu, W., Yang, A., Shin, J., Li, Y., Sun, J., Qu, Y., Zhen, L., Kim, H. M., Dong, C. (2022). One earth, one humanity vs. the virus: Examining the global COVID-19 social partnership communication networks on social media. International Journal of Business Communication. DOI: 10.1177/23294884221114393
• Kim, H. M. (2021). What do others’ reactions to body posting on Instagram tell us? The effects of social media comments on viewers’ body image perception. NewMedia & Society, 23(12), 3448-3465. DOI: 10.1177/1461444820956368
• Li, Y., Shin, J., Sun, J., Kim, H. M., Qu, Y., & Yang, A. (2021). Organizational sensemaking in tough times: The ecology of NGOs’ COVID-19 issue discourse communities on social media. Computers in Human Behavior, 122, 10638. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.106838
• Kim, H. M., Jeong, D., Appleby, P. R., Christensen, J., & Miller, L. C. (2021). Parental rejection after coming out: Detachment, shame, and the reparative power of romantic love. International Journal of Communication, 15, 3740-3759. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/16521/3528
• Yang, A. Shin, J., Zhou, A., Huang-Isherwood, K., Lee, E., Dong, C., Kim, H. M., Zhang, Y., Sun, J., Li, Y., Nan, Y., Zhen, L., & Liu, W. (2021). The battleground of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook: Fact checkers vs. misinformation spreaders. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-78
• Yao, S., Kim, H. M., Xu, Y., Wang, Y., Kwong, J., Kim, S., Kim, D. O., & McLaughlin, M. (2021). GPS tracking in dementia caregiving: Social norm, perceived usefulness, and behavioral intent to use technology. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-54). http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71077
• Xu, Y., Kim, H. M., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Hong, T., & McLaughlin, M. (2021). Public responses and concerns regarding vape bans on Reddit: A longitudinal topic modeling approach. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77626-8_26
• Kim, H. M., & Miller, L. C. (2020). Are insecure attachment styles related to risky sexual behavior? A meta-analysis. Health Psychology, 39(1), 46-57. DOI: 10.1037/hea0000821
• Kim, H. M., & Baek, Y. M. (2018). The power of political talk: How and when it mobilizes politically efficacious citizens’ campaign activity during elections. Asian Journal of Communication, 28(3), 264-280. DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2018.1431295
• Baek, Y. M., & Kim, H. M. (2016). Cultural distance and foreign drama enjoyment: Perceived novelty and identification with characters. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 60(3), 527-546. DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2016.1164166

Hye Min Kim (PhD, USC Annenberg) is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research examines the role of communication and new media technologies in addressing public health/risk challenges and promoting health behavior. To this end, she uses diverse quantitative methods such as experiments, surveys, meta-analysis, and computational analyses of social media data while connecting the understanding of social/interpersonal influence in decision-making, strategic message design, technology affordances, and health care disparities in underserved populations. Some of her recent projects investigate the processes and effects of anti-stigma messages on increasing mental health literacy of marginalized communities. Currently, she works on using communication networks to evaluate the effectiveness of social media health campaigns.