Jesse King | |
Doctoral Student | |
Department of Communication | |
UC Santa Barbara | |
https://www.morejesseking.com | |
jesseking@ucsb.edu | |
Education | |
2024(expected) | Department of Communication, UC Santa Barbara |
Ph.D. in Communication | |
2020 | School of Communications, Brigham Young University |
M.A. in Mass Communications | |
Thesis Title: Asian American Cultural Identity on Instagram | |
Committee: Dr. Scott H. Church (chair), Dr. Clark Callahan, Dr. Jessica Zurcher | |
2017 | School of Communication, Brigham Young University |
B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in news media + minor in editing | |
Publications | |
2020 | Zurcher, J., King, J., Callister, M., Stockdale, L., & Coyne, S. M. (2020). “I can multitask”: The mediating role of media consumption on executive function’s relationship to technoference attitudes. Computers in Human Behavior.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106498 |
2020 | King, J. (2020). [Review of the book When getting along is not enough: Reconstructing race in our lives and relationships by M. Walker]. Journal of Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2020.1793131 |
2020 | Richardson, M., Cannon, S., Teichert, L., Vance, A., Kramer, I., Barter, M., King, J., & Callahan, C. (in press). Religion-focused dating apps: A q methodology study on the uses of Mutual. Telematics and Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2020.101448 |
2020 | Callahan, C., King, J., Halversen, A., & Nordqist, E. (in press). Blogadapting: Adaptation experiences among expatriate bloggers. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2020.1765840 |
2020 | King, J., Ribeiro, S. L., Callahan, C., Robinson, T. (2020). Representing race: The race spectrum subjectivity of diversity in film. Ethnic and Racial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1740290 |
2020 | Church, S., & King, J. (2020). The word is the knife: The Janus-faced communication of Rose’s 12 Angry Men and Sarte’s No Exit. New Theatre Quarterly, 36(1), 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X20000123 |
2019 | Callahan, C., Church, S., King, J., & Elinzano, M. (2019). Snapchat usage among minority populations. Journal of Media and Religion, 18(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2019.1639404 |
2016 | Reed, A., Murphy, J., & King, J. (2016) Rose Marie Reid, LeGrand Richards, and “The Plan for Teaching the Gospel to Jewish People.” Mormon Historical Studies, 17(1 & 2), 145–194. |
Conferences | |
Papers | |
2020 | King, J., & Callahan, C. (2020). The Use of Brazilian and U.S. Media by Brazilian Immigrants in Online Mental Health Information Seeking. National Communication Association 2020, Indianapolis, IN. |
2020 | King, J., & Fretwell, L. (2020). Asian American Cultural Identity on Instagram.National Communication Association 2020, Indianapolis, IN. |
2020 | Halverson, A., King, J., Silva, L., Church, S., & Brubaker, P. (2020). Rejecting Others on Dating Apps. National Communication Association 2020, Indianapolis, IN. |
2020 | King, J., Callister, M., Zurcher, J., Coyne, S. M., Stockdale, L., & Parks, M. (2020). Digital media usage on parental mental health and parenting outcomes. International Communication Association conference 2020. |
2020 | Zurcher, J., King, J., Callister, M., Stockdale, L., & Coyne, S. M. (2020). “I can multitask”: The mediating role of media consumption on executive function’s relationship to technoference attitudes. International Communication Association conference 2020. |
2019 | King, J., Ribeiro, S. L., Callahan, C., Robinson, T. (2019). Representing race: The race spectrum subjectivity of diversity in film. 35th Annual Q Conference for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity, Naples, Italy. |
2019 | Callahan, C., King, J., & Nordqist, E. (2019). Blogadapting: Adaptation experiences among expatriate bloggers. Paper presented at World Communication Association Conference & the 16th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the Association for Business Communication, Wellington, New Zealand. (I did not give the presentation.) |
2019 | Church, S., King, J., & Robinson, T. (2019). Communicating, Searching, Referring: The Appeal of Communicating through GIFs. 35th Annual Q Conference for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity, Naples, Italy. (I did not give the presentation.) |
Other Academic Scholarship | |
2020 | Freaks and Geeks, research assistant for Scott Church. |
2020 | “Towards an ethics of mashup aesthetics: Girl Talk, sampling, and open source culture,” research assistant for Scott Church. |
2020 | 43-Man Squamish and Burkean Order: Why Sports Create Chaos More Than Catharsis |
2019 | “Simpson memes and the swarm archive: Or, toward a meme ecology,” research assistant for Scott Church. |
2019 | “Media use among U.S. children,” research assistant for Scott Church. |
2019 | “Adorno in the Digital Age: Consumerism, Ideology, and Participation in The Beatles: Rock Band,” research assistant for Scott Church. |
2019 | “Music and Airpods: Adorno as media ecologist,” research assistant for Scott Church |
2019 | “The aesthetics of GIFs,” research assistant for Scott Church. |
2019 | “Funes the crate digger: Archive, memory, and the remixers as librarians,” research assistant for Scott Church |
2019 | Turntables and tropes: A rhetoric of remix, research assistant for Scott Church |
2019 | “Stranger Things, remix, and the pleasures of hypertextuality,” research assistant for Scott Church |
2019 | “The fitness of the medium: Online trolling as epideictic speech,” research assistant for Scott Church |
2019 | “Characteristics of parent-child communication about sexting,” research assistant for Jessica Zurcher |
2019 | “Parental beliefs about adolescent sexting: Third-person effect,” research assistant for Jessica Zurcher |
2019 | “Body image portrayal in Disney animated films from 1937–2019,” research assistant for Jessica Zurcher |
2019 | “Age, class, and race portrayal in Disney animated films from 1937–2019,” research assistant for Jessica Zurcher |
2018 | “Does time spent using social media impact mental health?: An eight year longitudinal study,” research assistant for Jessica Zurcher |
2018 | “Visual attention and body region dissatisfaction among males,” research assistant for Kevin John |
2018 | “Rural use of social media in crisis situations,” research assistant for Clark Callahan |
Teaching | |
Spring 2020 | Adjunct Instructor, Brigham Young University, Department of Communications, COMMS 307: Fundamentals of Communications Action |
Winter 2020 | Teaching/lab assistant, Brigham Young University, Department of Communications, COMMS 319: Research in Communication |
Winter 2019 | Adjunct Instructor, Brigham Young University, Department of Communications, COMMS 313: Media Design & Graphics (two sections) |
Substituted Lectures | |
Fall 2019 | COMMS 628: Computer-Mediated Communication. Brigham Young University. Dr. Scott Church, instructor. Invited to teach a graduate class on writing literature reviews. |
Funding | |
2020 | Department of Communication, UCSB, full funding |
2020 | Wendell J. Ashton Communications Research Endowed Professorship Grant |
2019-2020 | Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarship and stipend |
2018-2020 | School of Communications, Brigham Young University, half tuition |
Honors and Distinctions | |
2020 | Top student paper award, Mass Communication Division, National Communication Association |
2019 | First place, 3 Minute Thesis competition, College of Fine Arts & Communication, Brigham Young University |
2012 | Phi Eta Sigma, Brigham Young University |
Professional Memberships | |
2020 | National Communication Association |
2020 | International Communication Association |
2019 | International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity |
Citizenship | |
2020 | Reviewer, Cyberpsychology, Behavior & Social Networking |
2020 | Reviewer, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies |
2020 | Reviewer, National Communication Association 2020 conference, Mass Communication Division. |
2020 | Chair, International Communication Association. Chaired the health communications panel (May 2020). |
2019-2020 | Editor, Intuition: BYU’s Undergraduate Academic Journal of Psychology |
2019-2020 | Reviewer, Intuition: BYU’s Undergraduate Academic Journal of Psychology |
2015-2016 | Senior Editor, Aperture: Journal of Media Arts |
2015-2016 | Editor, Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism |
2015-2016 | Editor, Schwa: Language and Linguistics |
Work Experience | |
2020 | Graduate Research assistant, Amy Gonzales, UC Santa Barbara |
2018-2020 | Graduate research assistant, Scott Church, Clark Callahan, Jessica Zurcher, Kevin John, Brigham Young University |
2017-Present | Freelance writer, researcher, and editor (FluentU, Delicious Everyday, Lifestyle Therapy Coach, Ascent Family Therapy, Chegg) |
2016-2017 | Research assistant, Andrew Reed, Department of Religious Education, Brigham Young University |
2016-2017 | Academic publishing editor, BYU Studies |
Community Involvement | |
2019–2020 | United Way, Computer lab mentor for adult English language learners |
2013, 2017 | Girls Empowered, Mentor for teen girls |
Communication. Technology. Academic Editing.