Dr. Kyounghee (Hazel) Kwon

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			Hazel Kwon, Ph.D.
			Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication
			Office:	PSA 202D
			Phone:	(215) 895-4130
			Email:	kk627 @ drexel.edu
	CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH Social Informatics and Social Networking Computer-Mediated Communication Network Diffusion of Information
	RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Oh, O., Kwon, K. H., & Rao, H. R. (2010). An exploration of social media in extreme events: Rumor theory and Twitter during the Haiti earthquake 2010. Proceedings of 31st International Conference on Information Systems, Saint Louis, Missouri, December 12-15, 2010. Kim, J. H., Barnett, G. A., & Kwon, K. (2010). The Influence of social networks on the U.S. senate roll-call voting. The International Journal of E-Politics, 1(4), 24-47. Nam, Y., Kwon, K. H., & Lee, S. (2010). Does it really matter that people do zipping ads?: Testing the effectiveness of simultaneous presentation advertising (SPA) in IDTV Environment. CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, 13(2), 225-229 Wang, S., Moon, S.-Il., 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. Kwon, K., Barnett, G. A. & Chen, H. (2009). Assessing cultural differences in translations: A semantic network analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, 2 (2), 107-138 Kwon, K. H., & Chon, B. (2009). Social influences on terrestrial and satellite mobile-TV adoption in Korea: Affiliation, positive self-Image, and perceived popularity. The International Journal on Media Management 11(2), 1-12. Kwon, K. H., & Moon, S.-Il. (2009). The bad guy is one of us: Framing comparison between the U.S. and Korean newspapers and blogs about the Virginia Tech shooting. The Asian Journal of Communication, 19(3), 269-287. Cheong, P. H., Halavais, A., & Kwon, K. (2008). The chronicles of me: Understanding blogging as a religious practice. Journal of Media and Religion, 7 (3), 107-131.