About Seonhye

I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at UCLA.

My research examines how people engage with digital news in algorithmically shaped environments. I study patterns of news viewing, selection, consumption, and participation using large-scale digital trace data, experiments, and computational methods like LLMs and network analysis.

Through this work, I aim to understand how cognitive and social biases, such as partisanship and negativity bias, interact with digital systems to shape political communication today.

I'm affiliated with the Political Communication & Behavior Lab (PCB) and recently joined the Computation and Language for Society (CoLaS) Lab at UCLA.

Publications & Work in Progress

Noh, S., & Soroka, S. (2025). Negativity Biases Online: The Interplay of Individuals and Algorithms in News Consumption. Journal of Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000479

— Presented at ICA 2025 (Denver, CO, USA)

Noh, S., & Soroka, S. Engaging to Oppose: Cross-Cutting Patterns in Hostile News Commentary. Revise & Resubmit. [preprint]

— Presented at ICA 2024 (Gold Coast, Australia) and IC2S2 2024 (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Noh, S. Expressive News Preferences: Identity-Signaling in News Selection. Revise & Resubmit. [preprint]

— Presented at APSA Political Communication Preconference 2024 (Philadelphia, PA, USA) and ICA 2025 (Denver, CO, USA)

Kernell, G., & Noh, S. The AI Referee: How Online Interventions Shape Incivility and User Engagement in News Discussions. Revise & Resubmit. [preprint]

— Awarded research grant from UCLA Initiative to Study Hate (ISH) ($15,000); presented at MPSA 2023 (Chicago, IL, USA)

Kim, S., & Noh, S. Disproportionate Voices: Participation Inequality and Hostile Engagement in News Comments. Revise & Resubmit. [preprint]

— Presented at IC2S2 2024 (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Noh, S. Funnel of Engagement: User Segregation from Viewing to Selection to Consumption on a Mobile News Feed. Work in progress.

— Presented at ICA Political Communication PhD Student Preconference 2024 (Denver, CO, USA); will be presented at APSA 2025 (Vancouver, Canada)

Noh, S. Human-Algorithm Temporal Interactions on Mobile News Feeds. Work in progress.

— Will be presented at APSA Political Communication Preconference 2025 (Vancouver, Canada)

Noh, S., Soroka, S., & Bordes, Z. Screen Size and News Engagement. Work in progress. [OSF preregistration]

Noh, S., & Berwald, R. Correcting Misinformation, but Sustaining Conclusions: The Role of Emotional and Partisan Attachments in Narrative Persistence. Work in Progress.

— Awarded UCLA Political Psychology Fellowship ($1,000)

Recent News

Sept 2025: I'm presenting two of my studies—on human-algorithm temporal interactions and the funnel of news engagement in mobile news feeds—at APSA in Vancouver.
July 2025: I was awarded the UCLA Political Psychology Fellowship for Non-Dissertation Research for my work with Rachel Berwald ($1,000).
June 2025: I attended ICA, presented three of my studies, and received a $500 travel fund from the Political Communication Division.
May 2025: My co-authored paper with Stuart Soroka, Negativity Biases Online: The Interplay of Individuals and Algorithms in News Consumption, was accepted for publication in Journal of Media Psychology.