Faculty

Qualifications:

B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Department of Communication, Seoul National University, 2002
M.S., Department of Communication, Seoul National University, 2004
Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2009

Recent Honors and Awards:

2011. OSU School of Communication Faculty Member of the Year Award. The Ohio State University School of Communication

2010. Top Four Faculty Paper Award. Communication Technology Division, AEJMC

Courses Taught:

COMM 760 “Communication Research Methods” (Graduate)
COMM 628 “Contemporary Persuasion Theories” (Undergraduate)
COMM 638 “Communication and eHealth” (Undergraduate)
COMM 636.02 “Health Communication in Mediated Contexts” (Undergraduate)

Publications:

REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Chul-joo Lee (in press). The role of social capital in health communication campaigns: The case of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. Communication Research. 

Chul-joo Lee & Daniel Kim (in press). A comparative analysis of the validity of U.S. state- and county-level social capital measures and their associations with population health. Social Indicators Research.    

Chul-joo Lee, Susana Ramirez, Nehama Lewis, Stacy W. Gray, & Robert C. Hornik (in press). Looking beyond the Internet: Examining socioeconomic inequalities in cancer information seeking among cancer patients. Health Communication.

Susana Ramírez, Derek Freres, Lourdes Martinez, Nehama Lewis, Angel Bourgoin, Bridget Kelly, Chul-joo Lee, Rebekah Nagler, J. Sanford Schwartz, & Robert C. Hornik (in press). Information seeking from media and family/friends increases the likelihood of engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors. Journal of Health Communication.

Chul-joo Lee & Jeff Niederdeppe (2011). Genre-specific cultivation effects: Lagged associations between overall TV viewing, local TV news viewing, and fatalistic beliefs about cancer prevention.Communication Research, 38(6), 731-753. [Lead Paper]

Keith N. Hampton, Chul-joo Lee, & Eun Ja Her (2011). How new media affords network diversity: Direct and mediated access to social capital through participation in local social settings. New Media & Society, 13 (7), 1031-1049. [Lead Paper]

Jean Brechman, Chul-joo Lee, & Joseph N. Cappella (2011). Distorting genetic research about cancer: From bench science to press release to published news. Journal of Communication, 61 (3), 496-513.

Chul-joo Lee, Stacy W. Gray, & Nehama Lewis (2010). Internet use leads cancer patients to be active health care consumers. Patient Education & Counseling, 81 (Supp.1), 63-69.

Chul-joo Lee (2010). The interplay between media use and interpersonal communication in the context of healthy lifestyle behaviors: Reinforcing or substituting? Mass Communication & Society, 13(1), 48-66.

Chul-joo Lee (2009). The role of Internet engagement in the health-knowledge gap. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53(3), 365-382.

Jean Brechman, Chul-joo Lee, & Joseph N. Cappella (2009). Lost in translation? A comparison of cancer-genetics reporting in the press release and its subsequent coverage in lay press. Science Communication, 30(4), 475-505.

Chul-joo Lee & Robert C. Hornik (2009). Physician trust moderates the Internet use and physician visits relationship. Journal of Health Communication, 14(1), 70-76.

Chul-joo Lee (2008). Does the Internet displace health professionals? Journal of Health Communication, 13(5), 450-464.

Anne Katrin Arnold, Cabral Bigman, Jean Brechman, Jessica Fishman, Chul-joo Lee, Nehama Lewis, Lourdes Martinez, Nicole Verrochi, Deborah Wainwright, & Martin Fishbein* (2008). Linking measures of media exposure to sexual cognition and behaviors: A review. Communication Methods and Measures, 2(1&2), 23-42.
*The authors equally contributed to the paper

Chul-joo Lee, Robert C. Hornik, & Michael Hennessy (2008). The reliability and stability of general media exposure measures. Communication Methods and Measures, 2(1&2), 6-22. 

Chul-joo Lee & Dietram A. Scheufele (2006). The influence of knowledge and deference toward scientific authority: A media effects model for public attitudes toward nanotechnology. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 83(4), 819-834.

Chul-joo Lee, Dietram A. Scheufele, & Bruce Lewenstein (2005). Public attitudes toward emerging technologies: Examining the interactive effects of cognitions and affect on public’s attitude toward nanotechnology. Science Communication, 27(2), 240-267.   

BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

June Woong Rhee & Chul-joo Lee (2010). Cross-cultural interactions through mass media products: Cognitive and affective impacts of the Chinese’s consumption of Korean media products. In Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein, & Alison Tokita (Eds.), Complicated currents: Media flows and soft power in East (pp. 5.1-5.16). Melbourne, Australia: Monash University ePress.

Chul-joo Lee (2004). The relationship between online social network capital and status aspiration.Media & Society 12(2), 157-199. (Written in Korean)

Sug-min Youn & Chul-joo Lee (2003). Female employees’ status in the three major over-the-air broadcasting companies in South Korea. Korean Journal of Communication & Information, 22, 168-210. (Written in Korean)

Grant:

Co-Investigator, NIH GRANT R24MD002785 Community based Participatory Research Strategies to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Ohio Appalachia (Principal Investigator: Electra D. Paskett, Ph.D.)

Co-Investigator, NIH GRANT P50 Center Grant Reducing Cervical Cancer in Appalachia (Principal Investigator: Electra D. Paskett, Ph.D.)

Co-Investigator, NIH GRANT #1-R03-DA-020893-01 Explaining the Boomerang Effect of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign (Principal Investigators: Lela S. Jacobsohn, Ph.D. and Robert C. Hornik, Ph.D.)

Professional Service:

Grant Application Reviewer

National Science Foundation, 2011

Journal Editorial Board Membership

Communication Research, 2011-present

Health Communication, 2011-present

Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer 

Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Journal of Health Communication, Health Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Science Communication, Media Psychology, Communication Methods and Measures, Social Science & Medicine, Social Indicators Research, Public Health Genomics

Quick Introduction:

Health Communication in Mediated Contexts, eHealth

Description:

My research mainly focuses on how media exposure manifests its influences in the context of the audience’s social environment, including social and interpersonal communication networks, as well as the community’s physical environment, social structure, and social cohesion (e.g., social capital). I have explored how individuals’ use of media for health information and interpersonal health communication interact and jointly influence healthy lifestyle behaviors. Using a nationally representative survey, I found that the associations between television and Internet use and healthy lifestyle behaviors were larger for those who less frequently talk about health issues with their family and friends (Lee, 2010). Building on this study, I am currently examining the interactive effects of media exposure and social capital at both individual and community levels on interpersonal health communication and healthy lifestyle behaviors (Lee, in press; Lee & Kim, in press). I believe that my research program contributes to the disciplines of communication, public health, and medical sociology.

In my second line of research, I investigate the roles that the Internet, one of the newest sources of information about health, may play in the evolving U.S. health care system. First, I have examined the relationship between new and traditional health information sources. For instance, Robert C. Hornik and I found that Internet use increased patients’ contact with health professionals (Lee, 2008) and that this effect was moderated by trust in physicians (Lee & Hornik, 2009). Moreover, I have examined the roles of the Internet in the socioeconomic disparities in health information seeking, health knowledge, and cancer fatalism (Lee, 2009; Lee, Ramirez, Lewis, Gray, Hornik, in press; Lee, Niederdeppe, & Freres, under review). These studies led me to contend that the Internet contributes to narrowing the gaps in cancer fatalism, whereas it contributes to widening the gaps in health knowledge and information seeking. In addition, I have explored the effects of Internet use on doctor-patient interactions using state-wide representative data from survey with cancer patients (Lee, Gray, & Lewis, 2010). I found that Internet use led cancer patients to prefer a more active role in medical decision making.