A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Kansas State University
105 Kedzie Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6890
Fax: 785-532-5484

JMC Announcements

• JMC Centennial Celebration coming Sept. 2-4, 2010. [ more ]
• 2010 Readiness Conference coming March 25-27 at the K-State Alumni Center. [ more ]
• K-State seeking applications for assistant director of Student Publications. [ more ]
• JMC accepting applications for Seaton chair position. [ more ]
• JMC professor Louise Benjamin writes new book: "The NBC Advisory Council and Radio Programming, 1926-1945." [ more ]
• JMC alumna Gail Pennybacker appears on "Good Morning America" to discuss breast cancer awareness coverage: [ story with video ]
• The Common Good Internship/Career Fair will be 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
• JMC wins 2009 University Outstanding Department Award for Enhancing Diversity. [ more ]
• JMC professor H.S. Jin wins Presidential Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence. [ more ]
• JMC alum Pete Souza takes us into the Oval Office on ABC's Good Morning America. [ GMA slideshow / Whitehouse.gov slideshow]
• Miller School alum named Obama White House photographer. [ more ]

Faculty: Soontae An

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• Office: Kedzie 217A
• Phone: 532-6815
• E-mail: soontae@ksu.edu
• BA Ewha Womans Univ., MA Sogang Univ., MA University of Alabama, Ph.D. University of North Carolina.

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Soontae received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining K-State's faculty in 2001. She also taught at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain as a visiting professor. Her current research focuses on Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) prescription advertising, online advergames for children, and advertising regulations and policy.

Recent works include:

An, Soontae & Susannah Stern (forthcoming), “Mitigating the Effects of Advergames on Children: Do Advertising Breaks Work?” Journal of Advertising. 

Muturi, Nancy & Soontae An (forthcoming), “HIV/AIDS Stigma and Religiosity among African American Women,” Journal of Health Communication.

An, Soontae, Hyun Seung Jin, & Jane Brown (2009), “Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Ads and Young Adults’ Beliefs about Depression,” Health Marketing Quarterly, 26, 259-278. 

Jin, Hyun Seung, Soontae An, & Todd Simon (2009), “Assessing Beliefs of Political Advertising: An Exploratory Investigation,” Psychology and Marketing, 26(6), 551-568.

An, Soontae (2008), “Antidepressant Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Social Perception on the Prevalence of Depression: Application of the Availability Heuristic,” Health Communication, 23(5), 1-7.

An, Soontae (2007), “Attitude toward Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Drug Inquiry Intention: The Moderating Role of Perceived Knowledge,” Journal of Health Communication, 12, 567-580.

An, Soontae & Lori Bergen (2007), “Advertiser Pressure on Daily Newspapers: A Survey of Advertising Sales Executives,” Journal of Advertising, 36(2), 109-119.

Jin, Hyun Seung, Xinshu Zhao, & Soontae An (2006), “Examining Effects of Advertising Campaign Publicity in a Field Study,” Journal of Advertising Research, 46(2), 1-12.

An, Soontae, Hyun Seung Jin & Michael Pfau (2006), “The Effects of Issue Advocacy Advertising on Voters’ Candidate Issue Knowledge and Turnout,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 83(1), 7-24.

An, Soontae, Hyun Seung Jin, & Todd Simon (2006), “Ownership Structure of Publicly-Traded Newspaper Companies and their Financial Performance,” Journal of Media Economics, 19(2), 119-136.

An, Soontae & Hyun Seung Jin (2004), “Interlocking of Newspaper Companies with Financial Institutions and Leading Advertisers,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 81(3), 578-600.

An, Soontae (2003), “From a Business Pursuit to a Means of Expression: Supreme Court’s Dispute over Commercial Speech from 1942 to 1976,” Communication Law and Policy, 8, 201-225.