Biography

Gyo “Hyun” Koo, Ph.D. (The University of Texas at Austin) is an Assistant Professor at Howard University’s Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies (CCMS). 

Her research explores how communication technologies and journalism practices shape people's knowledge, perceptions, and behavior, with a focus on their implications for democracy and public health. In her recent work, she has used surveys, experiments, and computational methods to examine how news, political entertainment, and information technologies, as well as the individuals who develop and use them, influence public understanding of social issues, shape beliefs in mis/disinformation, and affect civic engagement.

She teaches Political Communication & Public Opinion, Communication Theories & Research Foundation, Health Communication Seminar (Data Science), and Technology & Health Communication.