Asian Journal of Communication, an SSCI journal with a dedicated focus on Asian communication research, has published a special issue co-edited by three members of the lab, Dr. Jonathan Zhu, Dr. Winson Peng, and Dr. Hai Liang. The full volume can be accessed at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rajc20/29/3?nav=tocList. The theme of the special issue is “Introducing Computational Social Science
The article, entitled “Applying user analytics to uses and effects of social media in China”, has been published in the special issue of Asian Journal of Communication on applying computational methods to communication research in Asia- Pacific, by Jonathan Zhu, Yixin Zhou, Lu Guan, Lei Hou, Anqi Shen and Heng Lu. In the article, they introduced
Dr. Kevin Gang Han, an associate professor of Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University (USA), visited the Lab today. An active scholar on mediated health communication, strategic communication, and news framing analysis, Dr. Han exchanged with Prof. Jonathan Zhu and other members of the Lab on opportunities and challenges in research and
Dr. Toriumi and his student, Mr. Sonoda, visited the Web Mining Lab on Feb 19th. Dr. Toriumi is an associate professor of Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He is one of the pioneer scholars of computational social science in Japan. A student forum was organized during their visit. Mr. Sonoda and lab
The 69th Annual ICA conference will be held on May 24-28, 2019 in Washington DC, US. Six papers by lab members are selected for presentation on the coming conference, which has an acceptance rate of 39.4% this year. The titles of the papers are listed below: Hao, Q., & Peng, T. Q. Two Applications of Statistical Relational Learning: Fake