Do Won Kim

Do Won Kim

I am a Ph.D. student at the iSchool, University of Maryland, advised by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Cody Buntain.

My research interests lie at the intersection of computational social science and political science.
I investigate how social media algorithms shape users’ exposure to different types of content and how this, in turn, influences their political attitudes and behaviors. In my research, I develop and test various interventions to improve digital media environments. Methodologically, I am interested in online experiments (including field experiments on real and simulated social media platforms), causal inference, and leveraging computational methods (e.g., LLM, NLP, large-scale data collection through APIs, and ML techniques). Through my research, I aim to contribute to our understanding of digital media effects on political processes and democracy and inform policy discussions on platform governance for a healthy information ecosystem.

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News

[Aug. 2024]
🙌 Awarded the Doctoral Students Research Awards ($1,500)!
[July. 2024]
🙌 Awarded the Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant! Can't wait to connect at IC2S2 in Philadelphia!
[June. 2024]
🤩 Had fun participating in A Short First Course in Network Science
[May. 2024]
🥳 Our team was selected as one of nine finalists of the Prosocial Ranking Challenge, a worldwide crowdsourcing challenge organized by the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley!
[April. 2024]
🥳 Accepted a poster presentation for IC2S2 2024!
[April. 2024]
🤩 I am honored to serve as a Program Committee member for the International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2024) at the 2024 International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
[April. 2024]
🙌 I am excited to announce that I have become an affiliated PhD student at the Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS).
[Mar. 2024]
📖 Reviewed a paper (Behaviour & Information Technology).
[Feb. 2024]
📖 Reviewed ICWSM 2024 papers.
[May. 2023]
🥳 I am thrilled to have received the Dean's Fellowship during my first year of doctoral studies at UMD!