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Thank you for reading this Zine!

This fictional story is based on empirical research conducted for the research project titled “Sending News Back Home: Analyzing the Spread of Information Disorder in the Vietnamese Diaspora during the 2020 US Presidential Election”. This is a multi-method qualitative research study that draws on Facebook data from around the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections and focus group discussions with Vietnamese Americans in 2021. Through this research we came to better understand the information and communication networks that Vietnamese Americans share across generations.

All characters and dialog in this zine are based on findings from our research, but all names, places, and specific events are fictionalized.

For more details about this research, keep an eye out for published scholarly articles

• Moran, R., Nguyễn, S., & Bui, L. (2023). Sending News Back Home: Misinformation Lost in Transnational Social Networks. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 88:1-88:36. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579521

• Nguyễn, S., Moran, R. E., Nguyen, T.-A., & Bui, L. (2023). “We Never Really Talked About Politics”: Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces Structuring Information Disorder Within the Vietnamese Diaspora. Political Communication, 0(0), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2201940

This zine was brought to you with funding from the George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics and University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Special thanks to support from Viet Fact Check, The Interpreter, and the Vietnamese American community who has been open to collaboration and supportive of the research which this story is based on.

This story is based off of empirical research. Please Share your reflections, feedback, and experiences at https://bit.ly/viet-zine-survey

Changing Tides CC-BY-SA-NC 2023

Published in Seattle, WA