Miyoung Chong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Digital Communication at the University of South Florida. Her research centers on the intersections of information, minority, and power in digital, social, and news media settings with a critical informatics approach. Her larger body of research is characterized by computational social science and applied data science to investigate digital media and online community engagement. She has published her studies in Government Information Quarterly, the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Social Network Analysis and Mining, and the Journal of Business Anthropology. She has written a book chapter titled “Social Media Analytics” and received the SIG SM research award (runner-up) at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in 2021 and was awarded the prestigious Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award at the University of South Florida in 2024.