faculty
Founder and Lead Researcher
khkwon@asu.edu tel:602-496-5268
K.Hazel Kwon is an associate professor and the lead researcher at the MIDaS Lab at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Comm. Her research focuses on social/digital media and society, and online information disorder.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher
Young Eun Moon is a postdoctoral researcher at News Co/Lab. She is working with Deloitte on a project about rebuilding institutional trust in various sectors.
Graduate Research Fellows
Graduate Student
Ph.D. student in environmental communication, focusing on misinformation. With 8+ years in nonprofit marketing, he has collaborated with over 50 nonprofits on campaigns aimed at influencing public behavior.
Graduate Student
Qian is a third-year doctoral student at Cronkite School. Her research focuses on social media, digital audiences and technology.
Graduate Student
Kehrberg has taught courses for ASU on film, new media, and digital storytelling.
Graduate Student
Kris Vera-Phillips teaches news producing classes & a multimedia bootcamp for graduate students. She is also an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 14 years of experience producing news shows and special projects.
Graduate Student
Doctoral candidate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Specialized in Dark Web research, illicit communities, and media ecology of dark web communication technologies.
affiliate faculty
Assoc Professor
Asheley R. Landrum is an associate professor and science communication researcher at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.
Professor
Pulitzer Prize winner and Fulbright Scholar Stephen K. Doig is a professor of journalism specializing in data reporting.
Professor
Dr. Russomanno has been at ASU and the Cronkite School since 1994. He teaches and conducts research in mass communication law. Before that, he had a decade-long career in broadcast journalism.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr. Kirstin Pellizzaro is an Assistant Teaching Professor who leads the Multimedia Journalism curriculum at Cronkite.
Exec Dir & Assoc Professor
Mundel is executive director of Global Initiatives at the Cronkite School. His research looks at the unintended effects related to exposure to mediated messages. He teaches strategic communication.