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Cheng-Jun Wang

Associate Professor

Nanjing University

About

Cheng-Jun Wang is currently an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University. He is the director of Computational Communication Collaboratory, and a research member of Web Mining Lab. His research on computational communication appears in both SSCI and SCI indexed journals, such as Scientific Reports, PloS ONE, Physica A, Cyberpsychology. In 2014, He founded the website of computational communication. You can find his CV here.

Interests

  • Attention Networks
  • Computational Communication
  • Public Discussion
  • Computational Storytelling

Education

  • Ph.D in Communication, 2014

    City University of Hong Kong

  • MA in Communication, 2010

    Peking University

  • BS in Journalism, 2008

    Lanzhou University

Featured Publications

The Cinderella complex: Word embeddings reveal gender stereotypes in movies and books

Using the word embedding techniques, we reveal the constructed emotional dependency of female characters on male characters in stories. …
PDF Code Dataset Project

Jumping onto the Bandwagon of Collective Gatekeepers: Testing the Bandwagon Effect of Information Diffusion on Social News Website

Based on collaborative information filtering and information aggregation services, the social news website carries out a collective …
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Recent Publications

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Huimin Xu, Zhang Zhang, Lingfei Wu, Cheng-Jun Wang (2019). The Cinderella complex: Word embeddings reveal gender stereotypes in movies and books. PLoS ONE 14(11): e0225385..

PDF Code Dataset Project

Wang, C.J (2019). Elements of Computational Communication. Jupyter Book.

Code Project

Cheng-Jun Wang*, Jonathan J.H. Zhu (2019). Jumping onto the Bandwagon of Collective Gatekeepers: Testing the Bandwagon Effect of Information Diffusion on Social News Website. Telematics and Informatics.

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王成军 (2019). 找回失落的参考群体：对沉默的螺旋理论的边界条件的考察. 新闻大学.

PDF Project

张伦, 王成军, 许小可 (2018). 计算传播学导论. 北京师范大学出版社, 北京, ISBN: 9787303241200.

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Teaching

My ebook Elements of Computational Communication (In Chinese 《计算传播基础讲义》）is now available online, enjoy! https://chengjunwang.com/mybook.

I am teaching the following courses:

  • FDU Graduate Course Introduction to Computational Communication

    See this GitHub repository for materials of python programming, data collection, basic statistics and machine learning, basic text mining, recommendation system, and communication networks.

  • NJU Master Course Big Data Mining and Analysis

  • NJU Undergraduate Course Data Journalism

  • NJU Undergraduate Course Programming Basics For Computational Communication

News

scholarNetwork: Visualizing Google Scholar Network
News Map of China
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Projects

  • Bringing Back the Reference Group: Agent-based Modeling of Spiral of Silence. National postdoc grant 2015M571722
  • The Network Threshold of the Formation and Diffusion of Public Opinion. National Social Science Fundation for Young Scholars 15CXW017
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All Attention Network Computational Communication

Attention Networks

This project aims to study the attention dynamics using flow network analysis.

Computational Communication

This project aims to establish the framework of computational communication

Contact

  • [email protected]
  • 163 Xianlin Street, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210093
  • Room 450, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University (Xianlin Campus)

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