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 Lian Kim (lkim@unm.edu).
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2022 DMC Research Group Meeting_© DMC
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DMC's current projects:
* Motivations for Instagram, Information Consumption and Opinion Expression: A Latent Profile Analysis
* COVID-19 and Religious Fatalism
* Exposure to Vaccine Misinformation and Subsequent Information Seeking in Online
* COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation, Uncertainty, and Vaccine Hesitancy among Parents with 5-11 years old* COVID-19 Stress, Mental Health, Social Media Use, and the Role of Quality of Social Support
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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
Md Didarul Islam
Ph.D. student
Interests
Political use of social media, social and political movements, political communication, media studies
Lian Kim
Ph.D. student
Interests
health information seeking, social media, perceived social norms, health inequities, health promotion for gender and racial minorities, communication technology, survey
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
