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Chankyung Pak
Assistant Professor
Department of Media and Communication
Kyungpook National University
Office
Kyungpook National University
Department of Communication
80, Daehak-ro, Buk-gu
Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
Education
- PhD, Information and Media, Michigan State University, 2018.
- MA, Communication, Seoul National University, 2011.
- BA, Communication/Economics, Seoul National University. 2008.
Published Papers
- Pak, Chankyung, Kelley Cotter, & Kjerstin Thorson (2022). Correcting Sample Selection Bias of Historical Digital Trace Data: Inverse Probability Weighting (IPW) and Type II Tobit Model. Communication Methods and Measures, 16(2), 134-155.
- Lee Soeun, & Chankyung Pak (2022). Datafication of News and Journalism Practices. Media & Society, 30(1), 5–50 (in Korean).
- Cotter, Kelley, Mel Medeiros, Chankyung Pak, & Kjerstin Thorson (2021). “Reach the right people”: The politics of ”interests in Facebook’s Classification system for ad targeting. Big Data & Society.
- Thorson, Kjerstin, Kelley Cotter, Mel Medeiros, & Chankyung Pak (2021). Algorithmic inference, political interest, and exposure to news and politics on Facebook. Information. Communication and Society, 24(2), 183-200.
- Pak, Chankyung, Kelley Cotter, & Julia DeCook (2020). Inter-media reliance and sustainability of emergent media: A large scale analysis of American new outlets’ external linking behaviors. International Journal of Communication, 14.
- Pak, Chankyung (2019). News organizations’ selective link sharing as gatekeeping: A structural topic model approach. Computational Communication Research, 1.
- Pak, Chankyung & Rick Wash (2017). The rich get richer? Limited learning in charitable giving on donorschoose.org. AAAI ICWSM 2017. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. May 2017.
- Lee, Soeun, Jungyoung Kim, Chankyung Pak, Sungmin Lee (2013). Going to a health club: Body and self, the practice of self-development, Media & Society, 21(2), 73-118. in Korean
Working Papers
- Pak, Chankyung, Emilee Rader, Soojung Hong. “Treating the News Feed Paper Ranking Algorithm as a Filter Leads to Mis-estimation of Its Effect on Information Diversity.”
- Choi, Young Jun, Sang Yup Lee, Chankyung Pak, Steven S. Wildman. “Why do large markets dominate? A new look at sources of the large home market advantage in the international film trade.”
- Pak, Chankyung. “How News Organizations Paraphrase Their Stories on Social Media? Word Counting and Binomial Regression Approach.”
Teaching
- MI 201: Introduction to Media and Information Technologies (2016 Fall – 2017 Summer), Michigan State University.
- ADV 350: Media Planning (2017 Fall – 2018 Spring), Michigan State University.
- CMN 281: Guest Lecturer: Socio-Political Implications of New Media (2019 Spring), University of California, Davis
- BUS 3003: Business Communication (2019 Fall), BNU-HKBU UIC
- BUS 4023: Management Information Systems (2019 Fall), BNU-HKBU UIC
- EBIS 3003: Database Management (2020 Spring), BNU-HKBU UIC
Awards and Grants
- UIC Research Grant: Spring 2020 (49,000 RMB)
- Amazon Web Service Research Credit: Summer 2018 ($4,400 grant)
- Dissertation Completion Fellowship: Michigan State University, Fall 2017 ($6,000 grant)
- CAS Summer Research Fellowship: Michigan State University, Spring 2017 ($3,600 grant)
- ACM CHI 2017 Doctoral Consortium Fellow: ACM CHI, Spring 2017 ($800 award)
- Best of Symposium Prize: Information and Media Doctoral Program, Fall 2016 ($500 award)