Jeong-Nam Kim

Assistant Professor Office: BRNG 2176
Office Phone: (765) 496-6138
Office Fax: (765) 496-1394
Email: jnkim@purdue.edu

Research and Teaching

Jeong-Nam Kim’s research areas are strategic management of public relations, public opinion, and online and offline communicative actions among publics.

Jeong-Nam and Dr. James E. Grunig of the University of Maryland developed a Situational Theory of Problem Solving (STOPS), a generalized version of the situational theory of publics. Currently, Kim is conducting research using the new situational theory in the areas of public relations, public opinion, and health and risk communication.

Jeong-Nam teaches graduate and undergraduate public relations courses such as seminars Publics in Public Relations (graduate), Theories of Public Affairs (graduate) and Problems in Public Relations (undergraduate).

Representative Publications

• Kim, J.-N., & Grunig, J. E.  (forthcoming). Situational theory of problem solving: Communicative, cognitive, and perceptive bases. New York: Routledge.
• Kim, J.-N., & Grunig, J. E. (in press). Problem solving and communicative action: A situational theory of problem solving. Journal of Communication.
• Ni, L., & Kim, J.-N. (in press). Classifying publics: Communication behaviors and problem-solving characteristics in controversial issues. International Journal of Strategic Communication.
• Kim, J.-N., Ni, L., & Sha, B.-L. (2008). Breaking down the stakeholder environment: A review of approaches to the segmentation of publics. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 85(4), 751-768.
• Yun, S. H., & Kim, J.-N. (2008). Soft power: From ethnic attraction to national attraction in sociological globalism. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 32(6), 565-577.