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 (Ph.D. in Communication, SUNY-Buffalo) is a Professor and Research Director at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is also the founder and lead researcher of the MIDaS (Media Information Data and Society) Lab. Her research explores digital media publics, focusing on how networked audiences make sense of news events in complex media environments, and how information disorder reshapes the processes of informing the public. She has published in leading journals on topics such as misinformation/disinformation dynamics, online civility, cyber-rumoring, and dark web communities.
Her public engagement includes serving as a U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), partnering with the International Center for Journalists, and participating in the McCain Institute–Cronkite Taskforce on Defending American Democracy in the Digital Age.
Dr. Kwon has received numerous honors, including the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award from the International Communication Association; the Emerging Scholars Award, MCSD Research Award, and Jung-Sook Lee Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC); the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award; and several top paper awards from professional associations. She currently serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Communication Technology.
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
- Collaborator. Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Award Number: PO 7000506684), $280,000 (2020—2021) Title: Designing effective intervention points for adversarial influence operations.
- PI. National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2027387), Total 74,000 (2020-2022) Title: Rumor Diffusion during Unrest
- 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
- 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
State University - 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
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
| MCO 564 | Digital Aud Research&Behavior |
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
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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 |
Faculty Research Grant Award, Mass Communication & Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. 2025.
Top Second Faculty Article Award, Communication Technology Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. 2024.
Top Faculty Debut Article Award, Broadcasting Education Association. 2023.
Best Faculty Article Award, Chinese Communication Association. 2022.
The U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies. 2020—2021
The Most Influential Articles’ List, American Academy of Advertising. 2020.
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)
- 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
Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence - 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)