The 4th China National Conference on Social Computing (NCSC2012), to be held in Beijing, November 16-17, 2012, is calling for paper submission, with the deadline on July 16 (http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/ncsc2012). The conference will focus on the role of social computing in computer science, management science, and social sciences. Xiaofeng Meng of Lab of Web and Mobile
Lu Heng, a Ph.D. student of the Department of Media and Communication, won Top Paper Prize at the 3rd Postgraduate Student Symposium of the Chinese Journalism and Communication Consortium. The 3rd Postgraduate Student Symposium of the Chinese Journalism and Communication Consortium was held at Fudan University in Shanghai during November 26-27, 2011. Thirteen Ph.D. students
The research members of web mining lab, including Heng Lu, Lingfei Wu, Jie Qin, and Chengjun WANG, participated in the Honours Symposium at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 11-13 Nov 2011. Among all the twenty five papers, 7 papers were from City University, 2 papers were from NTU, and
Heng Lu and Chengjun Wang presented their studies at the WAPOR 2011 conference on 21-23 September. Heng presented his study (coauthored with Winson Peng and Jonathan Zhu) titled “The Effect of the Internet on National Identity: A cohort Study in Hong Kong” at the PhD workshop held on 21 September. Employing dataset of Hong Kong
Chengjun Wang, the year one PhD student of the lab, presented his paper on the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, held in Taiwan during June 26th-29th, 2011. Chengjun’s paper titled Surfing mobile Internet Motivated by Fashion Attentiveness focused on testing and verifying the interplay among fashion attentiveness, demographic variables, and new mobile Internet services. He