Digital Media and Communication for Health & Politics Research Group
.At the Digital Media and Communication (DMC) research group, we study how we communicate and interact with digital media about health and political issues. We conduct theory-based, culturally sensitive, and interdisciplinary research using quantitative research methods. If you have any questions, please email Dr. Sun Hong (sunhong@unm.edu) or our student leader Esther Fan (qinjunfan25@unm.edu).
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2022 DMC Research Group Meeting_© DMC
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DMC's current projects:
* Motivations for Instagram Use and Political Use of Instagram: A Latent Profile Analysis (Led by Moonsun Choi)
* Relationships between Social Media Use, Exposure to Vaccine Misinformation, and Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors (Led by Lian Kim)
* Religious Beliefs and Fatalistic approach to COVID-19 (Led by Sumaira Abrar)
* COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy among Parents with 5-12 years old (Led by Moonsun Choi)
* COVID-19 Stress Buffering: Social Media Use and Quality of Social Support (Led by Qinjun Fan)
* Asian Americans Identity, Acculturation, and Racism-Related Stress (Led by Anh Nguyen)
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Director
Yangsun Hong
Assistant Professor
Interests
social determinants of health inequities, communication inequalities, social norms approach, perception of media bias, misinformation, intersectionality, public opinion, political conversation, political participation, stigmaGraduate Students
Sumaira Abrar
Ph.D. candidate
Interests
health communication, patient-provider communication, health disparities, social determinants of health
Moonsun Choi
Ph.D. student
Interests
Media/digital literacy, Internet studies, digital citizenship, political communication/activism, Internet-infused education, critical thinking, online participation
Qinjun Fan
Ph.D. student
Interests
social media, health information on the internet, health intervention, misinformation
Lian Kim
Ph.D. student
Interests
Minority health (women of color, refugees, sexual and gendered minority), culture-centered approaches, media use for social change
Anh Nguyen
Ph.D. student
Interests
Critical intercultural communication, media studies
Collaborators
Courtney FitzGerald
Associate Scientist, Prevention Research Center
Interests
resilience, youth development, youth/student voice, culture-centered approaches, community-based participatory research, participatory action research, public health surveillance, survey research
