FASS Staff Profile

DR OZAN KURU
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NEW MEDIA

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Brief Introduction

Ozan Kuru obtained his Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Michigan and worked as the Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Current Research

Dr. Ozan Kuru is broadly interested in individuals’ engagement with digital technology and information about politics, health and science in a cross-national context with a particular focus on public opinion and survey methods.


Research Interests

Digital communication

Science and health communication

Misinformation and correction strategies

Public opinion

Political communication

Survey methodology


Publications

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    Selected Publications

    Kuru, O., Campbell, S.W., Bayer, J. B., Baruh, L., Ling, R. (2023). Reconsidering Misinformation in WhatsApp Groups: Informational and Social Predictors of Risk Perceptions and Corrections. International Journal of Communication. 

    Kuru, O., Chan, M. S., Lu, H., Stecula, D. A., Jamieson, K. H., & Albarracín, D. (2022). Religious affiliation and philosophical and moral beliefs about vaccines: A longitudinal study. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053221082770

    Stecula, D.A., Motta, M., Kuru, O. Jamieson, K. H. (2022). The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States, Journal of Communication, 2022;, jqac011, https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqac011

    Wu, Y., Kuru, O., Baruh, L., Campbell, S. (2022). Reliance on News, Social, and Alternative Health Media and Health Misinformation: The Moderating Roles of Need for Cognition vs. Faith in Intuition. Health Communication.

    Kuru, O., Stecula, D., Lu, H., Ophir, Y., Chan, S., Albarracin, D., Winneg, K., Jamieson, K. H. (2021). The Challenge of Countering the Influence of Vaccine Hesitancy Narratives. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248328

    Kuru, O., Pasek, J., & Traugott, M. (2020). When Pundits Weigh In: The Influence of Expert and Partisan Commentaries on Electoral Perceptions. Mass Communication and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2020.1774780

    Stecula, D., Kuru, O., Jamieson, K. H. (2020). How trust in experts and media use affect acceptance of common anti-vaccination claims. The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-007

    Kuru, O., Bayer, J., Pasek, J., & Campbell, S. (2017). Understanding and Measuring Mobile Facebook Use: Who, Why, and How? Mobile Media & Communication, 5(1), 102–120. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157916678269

    Kuru, O., & Pasek, J. (2016). Improving Social Media Measurement in Surveys: Avoiding Acquiescence Bias in Facebook Research. Computers in Human Behavior, 57, 82–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.12.008

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