I am an Associate Professor and the Director of the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). I am also the Co-Director of the Computational Social Science Laboratory at CUHK and an affiliated member at the Web Mining Laboratory at City University of Hong Kong. My research interests include:
I have published dozens of journal articles, many appearing in the foremost communication journals, such as Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and New Media & Society. I have also published in public health, information science, political science, sociology, and other interdisciplinary journals. I am currently working on several interdisciplinary projects related to human-AI communication using computational methods and field experiments, leaderless activism on social media, and the consequences of political incivility.
Updates
- To Prospective PhD Students (must read before you contact me!)
- New publication: Computational communication research in Chinese Journal of Sociology.
- New publication: Social media policies as social control in the newsroom in Journalism Studies. NiemanLab Report
- New publication: How institutionalized feedback works in Governance.
- New publication: Big data analytical methods in Research Handbook on Social Media and Society.