Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. His research expertise is media effects and political communication. Specifically, his research interests focus on socio-psychological effects of communication technologies in the context of journalism and politics. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Communication Research, Mass Communication and Society, The International Journal of Press/Politics and International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
Teaching Course
- COM 4511 Social Media and Communication
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
- Lee, S., & Cho, J. (2024). When partisans do not share partisan news: Third-person effect in an era of polarized politics. International Journal of Communication, 18, 1358-1381. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19511
- Lee, S., & Kim, K. (2023). I participate in politics because the news is influential against me: Hostile media perception, third-person perception, and political participation. Mass Communication and Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2272846
- Lee, S., & Kim, K. (2023). Perceived influence of partisan news and online news participation: Third-person effect, hostile media phenomenon, and cognitive elaboration. Communication Research, 50(7), 854-878. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502221127494
- Lee, S., & Cho, J. (2023). Communication mediation in an era of partisan selectivity: Modeling effects of information and discussion on participation. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 35(3), edad020. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edad020
- Wojcieszak, M., Leeuw, S., Menchen-Trevino, E., Lee, S., Huang-Isherwood, K. M., & Weeks, B. (2023). No polarization from partisan news: Over-time evidence from trace data. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 28(3), 601-626. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612211047194
- Lee, S., & Cho, J. (2023). Hearing and speaking the other side: The roles of expression and opinion climate perception in political polarization. Computers in Human Behavior, 143, 107672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107672
- Lee, S., Cho, J., & Kim, S. (2023). Pathways to youth political participation: Media literacy, parental intervention, and cognitive mediation. Mass Communication and Society, 26(1), 99-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2022.2122846
- Lee, S., & Cho, J. (2022). When CNN praises Trump: Effects of content and source on hostile media perception. SAGE Open, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221079890
- Yu, X., Wojcieszak, M., Lee, S., Casas, A., Azrout, R., & Gackowski, T. (2021). The (null) effect of happiness on affective polarization, conspiracy endorsement, and deep fake recognition: Evidence from five survey experiments in three countries. Political Behavior, 43, 1265-1287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09701-1
