DaJung (DJ) Woo

DaJung (DJ) Woo’s research explores the complex communication processes that shape organizational and vocational life. Her work focuses on employee socialization, interprofessional and interorganizational collaboration, and stakeholder engagement—core processes critical to organizational effectiveness and individual development. Using primarily qualitative methods, she investigates how individuals socialized in diverse professional and organizational settings collaborate across differences. She also examines 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, with attention to how inequalities in AI knowledge shape power, belonging, and career navigation.

Her empirical work spans urban planning, hospital emergency rooms, and statewide homelessness initiatives, highlighting communication’s role in addressing complex problems by fostering connection within and across organizations. She also frequently studies early-career professionals, whose organizational communication is often marked by heightened uncertainty and liminality as they make sense of their workplace experiences and navigate increasingly extended working lives. Woo has published her research in top-tier communication journals, including Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Management Communication Quarterly.

Woo has received competitive research awards, including top conference paper awards, article of the year awards, and dissertation awards, from the National Communication Association (NCA), the International Communication Association (ICA), the Academy of Management, and ARNOVA (the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action). She contributes actively to the field of communication through service, having served as Secretary of the Organizational Communication Division at NCA (2019–2021), as faculty advisor for the Rutgers chapter of Lambda Pi Eta (NCA’s communication honor society; 2021–present), and as Vice Chair of the Organizational Communication Division at ICA (beginning June 2026).

Ph.D., Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A., Communication, Kansas State University
B.A., English, Ewha Womans University

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