Jennifer Jiyoung Hwang

Biography

Jennifer Jiyoung Hwang is a first-year master’s student pursuing a Master of Science in Strategic Communication, in The Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and before graduate school, Jennifer worked for Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers. She was originally born in South Korea, but Jennifer also calls Singapore, Indonesia, and Shanghai home.

She studies interventions to decrease susceptibility to misinformation acceptance from computational, journalism, and media literacy angles. Jennifer conducts research as part of the Observatory on Social Media. Currently, she is conducting a research project looking at the COVID-19 vaccine and the Third-Person Effect. Jennifer is also working a on a research paper about how sensationalist versus non-sensationalist misinformation with partisan cues impact attention and recognition memory. She is conducting a third research project on what cues users rely on to discern fake bots versus real people on Twitter, and what role partisanship plays in this identification process. Overall, Jennifer specializes in using surveys, experiments, computational social science, R and Python in her research.