{"id":44,"date":"2020-07-21T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:32:22","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Most updated CV<\/strong> can be found <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sci.rutgers.edu\/woo-dajung-dj\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #666666;font-size: 14px\">My research addresses two key areas. The first is collaborative communication across organizational and\/or professional boundaries. My projects have examined how individuals from various types of organizations communicate to gain entry into a collaboration (<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/joc\/article-abstract\/68\/6\/1127\/5113161\">Woo &amp; Leonardi, 2018<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666;font-size: 14px\">), to manage tensions during collaboration (<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px\" href=\"https:\/\/nca.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/03637751.2018.1526389#.Xxs5a_hKhOo\">Woo, 2019a<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666;font-size: 14px\">), and to negotiate re-entry while the collaboration was coming to an end (<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0093650219851418\">Woo, 2019b<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666;font-size: 14px\">).<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The second area of my research is vocational\/organizational socialization (i.e., communication processes by which people develop knowledge and meanings about their job or organization). My projects have examined how identity tensions can enable\/constrain interns&#8217; organizational socialization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10570314.2017.1312510\">Woo, Putnam, &amp; Riforgiate, 2017<\/a>) and how boundary-spanning employees negotiate meaning of their jobs as valuable &#8220;jack of all trades&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0893318919887371\">Woo &amp; Myers, 2020<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I also examine the growing influence of technology use, particularly generative AI, as a source of vocational and organizational socialization, and the ways it both enables and constrains collaborative communication and relationships. In my ongoing projects, I pay particular attention to the communicative implications of AI knowledge gaps on expertise, belonging, and career navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most updated CV can be found here My research addresses two key areas. The first is collaborative communication across organizational and\/or professional boundaries. My projects have examined how individuals from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}