Professor and Department Chair
About
Nojin Kwak (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication and Media, and Director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan. Kwak also serves as Director of the BTAA Korean Studies e-School, the course share consortium among Big Ten schools. His research centers on the role of social and digital media in civic and political engagement, and his research has been published in Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Political Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media and Society, Political Research Quarterly, and Asian Journal of Communication. His recent studies analyze the patterns of social media use and their influence on community involvement, deliberative openness, political persuasion, and political participation. He has received numerous top paper awards at major conferences. Kwak served as president of the Korean American Communication Association, and is a co-editor of a book series, Perspectives on Contemporary Korea, published by the University of Michigan Press.
Field(s) of Study
- New and Emerging Media
- Political Communication
