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The Jan 6 Capitol riot was evidence of election interference targeting voter suppression through disinformation campaigns in social media. But methodological challenges have limited empirical research. Dr. Kim combines computational and survey-based approaches with user-based, real-time online digital and tracking tools and “reverse engineering” techniques. This reveals correlations between political disposition, exposure to disinformation and voters' confidence in election integrity. “The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook” identified Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election on Facebook. It received the International Communication Association's Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the Year in Political Communication (2018). Her current research, Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis), empirically investigates the sponsors, content, and targets of digital political campaigns across multiple platforms with a user-based, real-time, ad tracking tool that reverse engineers the algorithms of political campaigns.
This talk will also address regulatory policy implications for the normal functioning of democracy. She finds that regulatory loopholes enable anonymous groups' divisive issue campaign on digital media.
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Young Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political Science. Kim’s research concerns media and politics in the age of data-driven digital media, specifically the role digital media play in political communication among political leaders, non-party groups (issue advocacy groups), and citizens. Kim testified at the Federal Election Commission hearings on the rulemaking of internet communication disclaimers and presented Congressional briefings on election interference on social media. Her research on Russian election interference in the US presidential election was cited by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Kim spoke at the European Parliament on her research on data-driven political advertising and inequality in political involvement.
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