Communicating the culture through Korean food between authenticity and adaptation
Paper to be presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Aug. 6-9, 2020. *This paper won the third-place top student paper award, Minorities and Communication Division, AEJMC
Abstract: This study explores how Korean restaurants in the States promote their businesses by using the Circuit of Culture as a theoretical framework. Five elements in the Circuit, representation, production, consumption, identity, and regulation, provided a contextual understanding of how Korean food is communicated at a local level. In-depth interviews with 10 small business Korean restaurant owners in the U.S., the study highlighted the discrepancy in perception, knowledge and access to resources in promoting their businesses.
Getting a little too personal? Positive and negative effects of personalized advertising on online multitaskers
Abstract: Given the increasing number of personalized ads and the prevalence of media multitasking, understanding the impact of online privacy concern on ad outcomes is important. However, the interaction effects between […]
Increasing the Efficacy of Emotional Appeal Ads on Online Video Watching Platforms: The Effects of Goals and Emotional Approach Tendency on Ad-Skipping Behavior
Abstract: Using an experimental tool that tracks the viewers’ real-time ad skipping behavior, the current research tested when and why a highly arousing emotional appeal ad that induces a set of […]
