The 8th Chinese National Conference on Social Media Processing was held in Shenzhen, China on August 16~18. Several lab members played active roles in a Computational Communication Research Panel. Lun Zhang (an associate professor at Beijing Normal University) hosted the division. Xiaofan Liu gave a talk on “the Fragmentation and Centralization of Communication Research”. Hai
The 3rd Honours Symposium for Asian Ph.D Students in Communication Research is held in Yonsei university, Seoul, Korea, Oct 27-28. 9 Ph.D students of City University of Hong Kong participated in this conference, and Cheng-Jun got the Best Paper Award for his paper titled The Origin of Burst in Public Attention: Peak Fraction, Popularity, Diffusion Channels, and
Lu, H., Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2011). The effect of the Internet on national identity: A cohort study in Hong Kong. The 64th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September. Wang,C.J.(2011).The Emergence of Spiral of Silence: Agent-based Modeling of the Spiral of Silence.
Zhu, J. J. H., & Shen, F. (2011). Temporal trends and regional variations in internationalization of communication research. The annual conference of International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Istanbul, Turkey, July. (Abstract) Shen, F., Zhu, J. J. H., & Peng, T. Q. (2011). To trust or not to trust: Trends and covariates of Internet