Sports Event & Advertisement Effectiveness

This independent study project found that sport involvement, team involvement, result of the game, watching with acquaintances, and usage of social media have effect on the effectiveness of the advertisement during a sport event.

  • Researchers: Stephen Song, Frank Biocca
  • Funder: Newhouse Endowment

Virality

My project measures brain states of individuals on Facebook who consider sharing trending digital media events. In a modification of Matthew Lieberman of UCLA’s experiment, this fNIRS project measures “buzz” in the brain when participants share or do not share viral or trending media.

  • Researchers: Sarah Bratt, Leanne Hirshfield, Jeff Hemsley
  • Funder: Newhouse Endowment

Presence, Privacy Concern and LBS

The purpose of current project is to investigate the effects of social presence on privacy concern in location based social network service (LB-SNS). We use Social Presence Theory as a theoretical framework, and seek to examine the potential negative effects of social presence, which was not much considered crucial in the previous literature.

  • Researchers: Mincheol Shin, Younbo Jung, Doohwang Lee, Youngnam Seo
  • Funder: Nanyang Technological University

Investigation of Teen’s Perception & Credibility in Virtual Network

This study introduces a deviant group among youth that constantly consumes and shares information on virtual social networks in the cyberspace. this study will show the characteristics of this new type of group within virtual social networks using an empirical research approach. Also, youth who are in the early stages of brain development are likely to show brain plasticity within the framework of the theory of mind and feel unmediated social presence while they use mediated communication tools. It may result confusion on their perception for information credibility and also it cause another confusion on their decision making process by persuasive information from social media. 

  • Researcher: Soyoung Jung
  • Funder: Newhouse Endowment