The virtual 71st Annual ICA Conference, Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice, to be held on 27-31 May 2021. Eleven papers by lab members are selected for presentation on the coming conference. The titles of the papers are listed below: Computational Methods Division Chen, Z. C., & Liu, X. F. (2021). Why Do Users Leave
The article, entitled “Examining familial role in mobile news consumption as a sequential process” by two members of the Lab (Dr. Lun Zhang and Dr. Winson Peng) and their collaborator (Dr. Lu Zheng) at the Department of Sociology of Tsinghua University, has been published online in Telematics and Informatics. They argued in the paper that
The article, entitled “Viral vs. broadcast: Characterizing the virality and growth of cascades”, has recently been published at EPL (Europhysics Letters). Two members of the Web Mining Lab, Mr. Yafei Zhang and Prof. Jonathan J. H. Zhu, participated in this study. Quantifying the virality of cascades is an important question in fields of information diffusion
The article, entitled “From Filled to Empty Time Intervals: Quantifying Online Behaviors with Digital Traces”, has been published on Communication Methods and Measures by Tai-Quan Peng , Yixin Zhou and Jonathan J. H. Zhu. By analyzing two behavioral log files on webpage browsing and mobile application use, the study evaluates whether online behaviors characterized by
Yixin Zhou recently received a Hong Kong Postdoctoral Fellowship from Research Grants Council (RGC). The Fellowship is a new funding scheme to support young research talents for three years to build up research and development careers in Hong Kong. Each year, 50 awardees are selected, through a keen competition, from PhD graduates among eight public universities