Editorial Work

• Kwon, K. H., Weiai X., Wellman, B. (Eds) (2021). The dark social web: Responsibility, manipulation, and participation in global digital spaces. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(6), 683-688 (introduction article)  https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221989782

• Robinson, L., Schulz, J., Ragnedda, M., Pailt, H., Kwon, K. H., & Khilnani, A. (Eds). An unequal pandemic: Vulnerability and COVID-19. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(12) 1603-160 (introduction article) https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211003141

• Kwon, K. H., Park, S., & Shin, Y. (2021). Communicating crisis in networked Asia. Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, 20(2), 35-39 (Introduction article) 10.17477/jcea.2021.20.2.035

Journal Articles

• Lee, S., Shin, D., Kwon, K. H., Han, S. P., & Lee, S. K. (2024). DISINFORMATION SPILLOVER: UNCOVERING THE RIPPLE EFFECT OF BOT-ASSISTED FAKE SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT ON PUBLIC ATTENTION. MIS Quarterly, 48(3), 847-872. 10.25300/MISQ/2023/17195 [full article]

• Kwon, K. H., Lee, M. H., Pil Han, S., & Park, S. (2022). Fake thumbs in play: A large-scale exploration of false amplification and false diminution in online news comment spaces. New Media & Society 26(6), 3252-3272 https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221099170  [full paper]

• Kwon, H., Vera-Phillips, K., Moon, Y. E., Shao, C., & Xu, W. W. (2024). Credible, but Not for Me: Immigrant Folk Theories of News Trust in Chinese, Korean, and Filipino Communities in the US. Journalism Practice, 1-21. Published first online https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2340526 [full article]

• Lu, Y., Song, Y., Kwon, K. H., & Margolin, D. (2024). Investigating the Coverage of China’s Vaccine Crisis on YouTube: Networked Framing, Grassroots Activism, and Homophily. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 68(2), 176-197 https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2024.2313471 [full article]

• Li, Q., Chun, S., Walker, S., & Kwon, K.H. (accepted). Gun control agendas in networked digital environment: An intermedia comparison between news outlets, activism media, and ephemeral websites. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ), 101(1), 127-155 https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231217740 [full article]   

• Lee, S.H., Shin, D., Kwon, K.H., Han, S., & Lee, S.K. (accepted) Disinformation spillover: Uncovering the ripple effect of bot-assisted fake social engagement on public attention. MIS Quarterly.

• Shao, C., Kwon, K. H., Walker, S., & Li, Q. (2023). A dynamic analysis of conspiratorial narratives on Twitter during the pandemic. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Online  https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2022.0218 [full article]

• Madouh, M. & Kwon, K. H. (2023). Evolving in the Shadows: A Media Ecology Study of Dark Web Social Networks. Journal of Communication Inquiry. First published online. https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231210776 [full paper]

• Shao, C., Kwon, K. H., & Nah, S. (2022). Civic Life in Rural America Revisited: The Role of Social and Mobile News on Civic Participation. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 1-22. [full paper]

• Chadha, M., & Kwon, K. H., & Tsai, J. (2022). An examination of affiliate and network television channels’ Facebook use for addressing audiences’ critical information needs. Electronic News. https://doi.org/10.1177/19312431221093090 [full paper]

• Song, Y. & Lin, Q., Kwon, K. H., Choy C.H.Y., Xu, R. (2022). Contagion of offensive speech online: An interactional analysis of political swearing. Computers in Human Behavior, 127 (Article 107046). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107046  [full paper]

• Kwon, K.H., Pellizzaro, K., Shao, C., & Chadha, M. (2022). “I heard that COVID-19 was...”: Rumors, pandemic, and psychological distance. American Behavioral Scientist., 65(14), 2014-2036. 10.1177/00027642211066026 [full paper]

• Kwon, K.H. (2022). Rumors that Move People to Action: A Case of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests. Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, 21(2), 1-12. [full paper]

• Valecha, R., Srinivasan, S. K., Volety, T., Kwon, K. H., Agrawal, M., & Rao, H. R. (2021). Fake news sharing: An investigation of threat and coping cues in the context of the Zika virus. Digital Threats: Research and Practice, 2(2), 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3410025

• Shao, C. & Kwon, K. H. (2021). Hello Alexa! Exploring effects of motivational factors and social presence on satisfaction with AI-enabled gadgets. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(5), 978-988.  https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.293 [full paper]

• Song, Y., Kwon, K. H., Xu, J., Huang, X., & Li, S. (2021). Curbing profanity online: A network-based diffusion analysis of profane speech on Chinese social media. New Media & Society, 23(5), 982-1003 [full paper].

• Song, Y., Kwon, K. H., Lu, Y., Fan, Y., & Li, B. (2021). The “Parallel pandemic” in the context of China: The spread of rumors and rumor-corrections during COVID-19 in Chinese social media. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(14), 2014-2036. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211003153 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., Xu, W. W., & Wellman, B. (2021). The dark social web: Responsibility, manipulation, and participation in global digital spaces. American Behavioral Scientist. 65(5-6), 683-688 DOI: 10.1177/0002764221989782 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Shao, C. (2021). Dark knowledge and platform governance: A case of an illicit e-commerce community in Reddit. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(6), 779-799  0002764221989770. DOI: 10.1177/0002764221989770 [full paper]

• Nah, S., Kwon, K.H., Liu, W., & McNealy, J. (2021). Communication infrastructure, social media, and civic participation across geographically diverse communities in the United States. Communication Studies, 72(3), 437-455.   DOI: : 10.1080/10510974.2021.1876129. [full paper]

• Valecha, R., Volety, T., Kwon, K. H., & Rao, H. R. (2021). Misinformation sharing on Twitter during Zika: An investigation of the effect of threat anddistance. IEEE Internet Computing, 25(1), 31-39, DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2020.3044543.  [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., *Shao, C., Nah, S. (2021). Localized social media and civic life: Motivations, trust, and civic participation in local community contexts. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 18(1), 55-69. DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2020.1805086  [full paper]

• Ng, Y. L., Song, Y., Kwon, K. H., & Huang, Y. (2020). Toward an integrative model for online incivility research: A review and synthesis of empirical studies on the antecedents and consequences of uncivil discussions online. Telematics and Informatics, 47,  DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2019.101323 [full paper]

• Kwon, K.  H., Chadha, M., & Wang, F. (2019). Proximity and networked news public: Structural topic modeling of global Twitter conversations about the 2017 Quebec mosque shooting.  International Journal of Communication, 13, 2652–2675. 

• *Sahly, A., *Shao, Ch., & Kwon, K. H. (2019). Social media for political campaigns: An examination of Trump’s and Clinton’s framing building and its effect on audience engagement. Social Media + Society, 5(2), 1-13.  DOI: 10.1177/2056305119855141 

• Kwon, K. H. (2019). Public referral, viral campaign, and celebrity participation: A social network analysis of the Ice Bucket Challenge on YouTube. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 19(2), 87-99. DOI: 10.1080/15252019.2018.1561342  [Selected as one of the most influential articles in 2019]  [full paper]

• *Shao, C. & Kwon, K. H. (2019). Clicks intended: An integrated motivation model for nuanced social feedback system uses on Facebook. Telematics and Informatics, 39, 11-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2018.12.003 [full paper]

• Dutta, H., Kwon, K. H., & Rao, H. R. (2018). A system for intergroup prejudice detection: The case of microblogging under terrorist attacks. Decision Support Systems. 113, 11-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2018.06.003 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., *Priniski, J. H., & Chadha, M. (2018). Disentangling user samples: A machine learning approach to proxy-population mismatch in Twitter research. Communication Methods and Measures, 12 (2–3), 216-237. DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2018.1430755  [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., Chadha, M. & *Pellizzaro, K. (2017). Proximity and terrorism news in social media: A construal-level theoretical approach to networked framing of terrorism in Twitter. Mass Communication and Society, 20(6), 869-864. DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2017.1369545 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Gruzd, A. (2017). Is offensive commenting contagious online? Examining public vs. interpersonal swearing in response to Donald Trump’s YouTube campaign videos. Internet Research, 27(4), 991-1010. DOI: 10.1108/IntR-02-2017-0072  [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Rao, H. R. (2017). Cyber-rumor sharing under a homeland security threat in the context of government Internet surveillance: The case of South-North Korea conflict. Government Information Quarterly, 34, 307-316. DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2017.04.002 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Cho, D. (2017). Swearing Effects on Citizen-to-Citizen Commenting Online: A Large-Scale Exploration of Political vs. Non-political Online News Sites. Social Science Computer Review. 35(1), 84-102. DOI: 10.1177/0894439315602664 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., *Bang, C., Egnoto, M., & Rao, H. R. (2016). Social media rumors as improvised public opinion: semantic network analyses of twitter discourses during Korean saber rattling 2013. Asian Journal of Communication. 26(3) 201 – 222 . DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2015.1130157  [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., Xu, W. W., Haiyan, H., & *Chon, J. (2016). Spatiotemporal Diffusion Modeling of Global Mobilization in Social Media: The Case of Egyptian Revolution 2011. International Journal of Communication, 10, 73-97  

• Cho, D., & Kwon, K. H. (2015). The Impacts of Identity Verification and Disclosure of Social Cues on Flaming in Online User Comments. Computers in Human Behavior. 51. 363-372.  DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.04.046 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., Halavais, A., & *Havener, S. (2015). Tweeting badges: User motivations of achievement display in public networked environments. CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, 18(2), 93-100.doi: 10.1089/cyber.2014.0438 [Download]

• Kwon, K.H., Moon, S. –I., & Stefanone, M.A. (2015). Unspeaking on Facebook? Testing network exposure effects on self-censorship of political expressions in social network sites. Quality and Quantity. 49(4), 1417-1435  [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., Stefanone, M. A., & Barnett, G. A. (2014).Social network influence on online behavioral choices: Exploring groupformation on Social Network Sites. American Behavioral Scientists, 58(10), 1345-1360. doi: 10.1177/0002764214527092 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., Oh, O., Manish, A., & Rao, H. R. (2012).Audience Gatekeeping in the Twitter Service: An Investigation of Tweets aboutthe 2009 Gaza Conflict. AIS Transactionon Human-Computer Interaction, 4(4), 212-229. [full paper]

• Stefanone, M. A., Kwon,K. H., & Lackaff, D. (2012). Exploring the relationship betweenperceptions of social capital and enacted support online. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17, 451-466.  DOIL 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01585.x 

• Kwon, K. H., & Moon, S. (2012). Older adults’ social support giving and their psychological health: Testing moderating effects of giving in familial and non-familial context. Iowa Journal of Communication, 44(1), 93-118.[full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Nam, Y., & Lackaff, D. (2011). Wireless protesters move around: Informational and coordinative use ofinformation and communication technologies (ICT) for protest politics. Journal of Information Technology &Politics, 8(4), 383-398 [full paper]

• Stefanone, M. A., & Kwon, K. H., & Lackaff, D. (2011). The value of online friends: Networked resources via social network sites. First Monday, 16(2) 

• Nam,Y., Kwon, K. H., & Lee, S. (2010). Does it really matter that people do zipping ads?: Testing the effectiveness ofsimultaneous presentation advertising (SPA) in IDTV Environment. CyberPsychology, Behavior & SocialNetworking, 13(2), 225-229. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2009.0115  [full paper]

• Wang, S., Moon, S.-I, Kwon, K. H., Evans, C., & Stefanone, M. (2010). Face off: Implications of visual cues on initiating friendship on Facebook. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(2), 226-234. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2009.10.001 

• Kim, J. H., Barnett, G. A.,& Kwon, K. (2010). The Influence of social networks on the S.senate roll-call voting.  International Journal of E-Politics, 1(4), 24-47 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Moon, S.-Il. (2009). The bad guy is oneof us: Framing comparison between the U.S. and Korean newspapers and blogsabout the Virginia Tech shooting.  Asian Journal of Communication, 19(3), 269-287. DOI: 10.1080/01292980903038998 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Chon, B. (2009). Social influences onterrestrial and satellite mobile-TV adoption. International Journal of Media Management 11, 49-60. [full paper]

• Kwon, K., Barnett, G. A. & Chen, H. (2009).Assessing cultural differences in translations: A semantic network analysis ofthe Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, 2 (2), 107-138. DOI: 10.1080/17513050902759488  [full paper]

• Cheong, P. H., Halavais,A., & Kwon, K. (2008). The chronicles of me: Understanding bloggingas a religious practice. Journal of Media and Religion, 7(3), 107-131. DOI: 10.1080/15348420802223015 [full paper]

Book Chapters

• Kwon, K.H. & Shakarian, J. (2018). Black-hat hackers' crisis information processing in the darknet: A case study of cyber underground market shutdowns. In B. Wellman, L. Robinson, C., Brienza, W. Chen, & S.R. Cotten (Eds.). Networks, Hacking, and Media - CITA MS@30: Now and Then and Tomorrow (Studies in Media and Communications, Volume 17) (pp.113-135). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited.  [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H. (2018). The analysis of social capital in digital environments: A social investment approach. In B. Foucault-Welles & S. Gonzales-Bailon (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication. Oxford University Press. Online First. [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H. (2016). Using network analytic tools to teach social media impacts on citizen journalism. In H. N. Al-Deen (Ed.), Social Media in the Classroom (pp. 189-205). New York: Peter Lang. [full paper]

• Kim, J.H., Barnett, G.A., & Kwon, K. H. (2012). Comparing the influence of social networks online and offline on decision-making: The U. S. senate case. In C. R. Livermore (Ed.), E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet: Power, Influence, and Social Change (pp.198-219), Hershey PA: IGI Global. [full paper]

• Tutzauer, F., Kwon, K., & Elbirt, B. (2011). Network model of diffusion of competing Innovations: Applying agent-based modeling. In A. Vishwanath & G. A. Barnett (Eds.), Advances in Communication Research: The Diffusion of Innovations. New York: Peter Lang. [full paper]

Proceedings

• Kwon, K. H., Shao, C., Walker, S., Vinay, T. (2022). Mobilizing consensus on Facebook: Networked framing of the U.S. gun-control movement on Facebook.Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS, pp.3232-3241), January 4—7, Hawaii, USA .  http://hdl.handle.net/10125/79730

• Kwon, K. H. & Shao, C. (2020, July). Communicative constitution of illicit online trade collectives: An exploration of darkweb market subreddits. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Media & Society, Article No. 45 , July 22-24, 2020, Toronto CA [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., *Yu, W., *Kilar, S., *Shao, C., *Broussard, K., & *Lutes, T. (2020, January). Knowledge sharing network in a community of illicit practice: A cybermarket subreddit case. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., *Priniski, J. H., *Sarkar, S., Shakarian, J. & Shakarian, P. (2017). Crisis and Collective Problem Solving in Dark Web: An Exploration of a Black Hat Forum. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, Article No. 45 , July 28-30, 2017, Toronto CA [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Gruzd, A. (2017). Is aggression contagious online? A case of swearing on Donald Trump’s campaign videos on YouTube. Proceedings of 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, 2017 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H., & Hemsley, J. (2017). Cross-national proximity in online social network and protest diffusion: An event history analysis of Arab Spring. Proceedings of 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, 2017 [full paper]

• *Elledge, T. L. & Kwon, K. H. (2015). Imagining home away from home: Wi-Fi use in suburban coffee houses. Selected Papers of Internet Research 16.0, October 21-24, 2015, Phoenix, AZ.

• Kwon, K.H., Wang, H., Xu W.W., & *Raymond, R. (2015). A spatiotemporal model of Twitter information diffusion: An example of Egyptian Revolution 2011. Proceedings of Social Media and Society, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS), July 27-29, 2015, Toronto, CA. [full paper]

• Halavais, A., Kwon, K. H.,*Striker, J.,  & *Havener, S. (2014).Badges of friendship: Social influence and badge acquisition on StackOverflow.  Proceedings of 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 14-16, 2014 [full paper]

• Kwon, K. H. (2013). Revisiting the emergent norm theory to understand protest communication in social media: the improvisation-verification-solidification (IVS) Framework. Selected Papers of Internet Research 14.0, October 3-5, 2013, Denver, CO. Available Here

• Oh, O., Kwon, K. Manish, A., & Rao, H. R. (2011). Choice of information: A study of Twitter news sharing during the 2009 Israel-Gaza conflict. Proceedings of 32st International Conference on Information Systems, Shanghai, China, December, 2011

• Oh, O., Kwon, K. H., & Rao, H. R. (2010). An exploration of social media in extreme events: Rumore theory and Twitter during the Haiti earthquake 2010. Proceedings of 31st Int’l Conference of Information System (ICIS) Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, December 12-15, 2010  [full paper]

Non-refereed Academic Publications

• Maynard, A., Corey, C., Greaves, A., Kozar, M., Kwon, K. H., Scragg (2022). Conducting socially responsible and ethical counter influence operations research: A practical guide for researchers and practitioners. White paper. MIT Lincoln Lab and Arizona State University.

• Kwon, K. H. (2021). Cyber-troops in Networked South Korea. Online public learning module. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/ctinkorea/index?path=index

• Robinson, L., Schulz, J.,  Ball, C., Chiaraluce, C., Dodel , M, Francis, J.,  Huang, K-T,  Johnston, E., Khilnani , A., Kleinmann, O.,  Kwon, K. H., McClain, N., Ng, Y., Pait , H., Ragnedda, M., Reisdorf, B., Ruiu, M.L.,  Xavier de Silva, Trammel, J., Wiborg, O., & Williams, A. (2021). Cascading crises: Society in the age of COVID-19. American Behavioral Scientist. [A special foreword to the five-volume collection on Covid-19 and Society]. First published online. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211003156

• Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., Hemsley, J., Kwon, K. H., Vatrapu, R., Quan-Haase, A., Sloan, L., & Hodson, J. (2018). Introduction to the 2018 International Conference on Social Media and Society. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society [Intro article] https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217891

• Kwon, K. H. (2017). A paradoxical mind shift as a South Korean experiencing the North Korea threat. Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia [Editorial commentary] https://www.koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO201706163144734.page

• Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., Hogan, B., Hemsley, J., & Kwon, K. H. (2017). Introduction to the 2017 International Conference on Social Media and Society. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society. [Intro Article] https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097287Gate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kyounghee-Kwon

Academia.edu Profile: https://asu.academia.edu/HazelKwon