K. Hazel Kwon
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Phone: 602-496-5268
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Mail code: 2020Campus: Dtphx
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K. Hazel Kwon (PhD in Communication, SUNY-Buffalo) is a Professor of Digital Audiences and Founder / Lead Researcher at the MIDaS Lab at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She also serves as Research Director for the School.
Her research interests focus on social/digital media and society, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which networked publics make sense of news events and how the problem of information disorder redefines the process of informing the public. Some of her research has been supported by Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, International Center for Journalists, and Gates Foundation.
Dr. Kwon was selected as one of the U.S.-Korea NextGen scholars by CSIS and has received multiple awards including: Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award from the International Communication Association (ICA); Emerging Scholars Award and Jung-Sook Lee Award from the Association for Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC); Kappa Tao Alpha Research Award from National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication; Top Faculty Award from Chinese Communication Association; Top Debut Faculty Award from Broadcasting Education Association; and Top Four Paper Award from National Communication Association (NCA). Her publications have appeared in multiple high impact journals.
Research Home Page: https://www.hazelkwon.org/home
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QpNFdIEAAAAJ&hl=en
Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo, New York
M.A. SUNY-Buffalo, New York
B.A. Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Social/Digital Media, Information, and Society, including
- Networked news publics
- Information disorders (cyber-rumors, misinformation, disinformation, manipulation, online hate/extremism)
- Dark knowledge flows
- Digital methods
See HERE
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PI. Assessing the role and effectiveness of U.S. ethnic media’s counter-disinformation work. International Center for Journalists (Disarming Disinformation Program; Charitable gift to Cronkite School MIDaS Lab). Total $256,454 (2023-2025)
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Co-PI. National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2210137), Total $300,000 (2022--2024) Title: EAGER: DCL: SaTC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Combatting Disinformation and Racial Bias: A Deep-Learning-Assisted Investigation of Temporal Dynamics of Disinformation
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Collaborator. Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Award Number: PO 7000506684), $280,000 (2020—2021) Title: Designing effective intervention points for adversarial influence operations.
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PI. National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2027387), Total 74,000 (2020-2022) Title: Rumor Diffusion during Unrest
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PI. Social Science Research Council (Social Media and Democracy Grants), Total 48,988 (2020-2022) Title: Facebook Information Diffusion and Protest Mobilization: State-level Analyses of the 2018 March for Our Lives Demonstrations
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PI. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory-Army Research Office (Award Number: W911NF1910066 ), Total 328,653 (2019–2023)
Title: Crisis and Collective Problem-Solving on the Darkweb: Understanding Crisis Information Processing in Hidden Cyber Communities -
Investigator. Department of Education (Award Number: P016A160053), Total 189,697 (3% contribution) (2016-2018) Title: Asia Mediated: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Innovation at Arizona
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PI. AEJMC-Emerging Scholars Award, Total 3,500 (2017-2018)
Title: News Proximity and Social Media Framing of Terrorism: A Computational Approach toward Large-Scale Framing Research -
Co-PI. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Digital Media Learning Competition, Total 154,018 (2013-2014)
Title: Evaluating Microcredentialing in Public Networked Environments
Courses
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 710 | Research Methodology Mass Comm |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 710 | Research Methodology Mass Comm |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
Emerging Scholars Recipient, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (One of the four accepted out of 70 candidates). 2017.
Visiting Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, CA. (The largest academic social media laboratory in Canada). 2016.
Honorable Mention, Top Faculty Paper, Korean American Communication Division, International Communication Association. 2014.
Dissertation Award, Herbert S. Dorddick Dissertation Award (3rd Place), Communication and Technology Division, International Communication Association (Second runner-up out of 24 nominations). 2011.
Kappa Tao Alpha, Research award and induction to the National Honor Society for Journalism and Mass Communication. 2009.
Top Paper (1st), Jung Sook Lee Award from Communication and Technology Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. 2009.
Top Paper (4th), Peace Communication Division, National Communication Association. 2007.
Associate Editor. Journal of Communication Technology
Associate Editor. Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
Guest Editor. American Behavioral Scientists (2020/2021)
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Advisory Board, Korean Press Foundation, South Korea (2020)
Project: Media Users in South Korea -
Stakeholder Engagement, Facebook Inc. (2019/2020)
Content Policy: Rumors and Offline Violence (Oct 2019)
Content Policy: Response to COVID-19 (Apr 2020) -
International Advisory Board, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea (2020–Present)
Department of Interaction Science
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Social Media and Society Conference, Program Track Chair and Committee (2014 - Present)
- Panel Organizer, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL (2017)
- Panel Organizer/Chair, National Communication Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA (2016)
- Organizing Committee, the 16th Association of Internet Researchers Conference (IR16), Phoenix, AZ. (2015-2016)
- Social Technology Master's Degree Program, Committee (2013 - Present)
- Graduate Committee (MACS), Admission and Graduation Committee (2012 - Present)
- Preconference Organizer, the 14th Association of Internet Researchers Conference (IR14), Denver, CO
- International Communication Association Conference, Panel Chair/Respondent (2014 - 2014)