- 제목: Informing Outside the Mainstream: Community Media and Information Integrity Practices in U.S. Ethnic Communities
- 일시: 2025.2.26.(목), 10:00-11:30  
- 강연자: K. Hazel Kwon (Arizona State University)
- 강연 내용: While information disorder poses a substantial threat to democratic social orders, the harms produced by information-integrity-breaching activities disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minority populations. This vulnerability stands in tension with the growing political influence of these communities in the United States, as evidenced by shifting voting patterns among minority voters during the 2024 presidential election in key battleground states. In this talk, I present findings from a multiyear collaborative project examining information integrity practices within ethnic community media in the U.S. I first situate this project as an alternative approach to counter-misinformation research, addressing gaps left by dominant “Big Science” paradigms that often overlook community-based and culturally embedded practices. Drawing on interviews with ethnic media journalists, fact-checkers, and audience members, as well as participant observation and digital news analysis, I then discuss how different ethnic groups understand and respond to information integrity challenges, and the strategies they have developed to cultivate trust in the process of informing their audiences.
- 강연자 소개: K. Hazel Kwon (Ph.D. in Communication, SUNY-Buffalo), is Professor and Research Director at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Her research explores how information disorder reshapes the processes of informing the public. Dr. Kwon has received multiple honors, including the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award from ICA; the Emerging Scholars Award, MCSD Research Award, and Jung-Sook Lee Award from AEJMC; the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award; and several top paper awards from various professional associations. Her public engagement includes a U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (20-21),  McCain Institute–Cronkite Taskforce member on Defending American Democracy in the Digital Age (22-23) and partnership with the International Center for Journalists.