Biography
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 the Socrates Lab. He is also a research member of Web Mining Lab, City University of Hong Kong. His research interest focuses on employing big data, computational methods, and social theories to study human communication behaviors, including but not limited to information diffusion, attention flow, and computational narrative. His research on computational communication appears in both SSCI and SCI indexed journals. His new book Jumping over the network threshold: Information diffusion on social media (in Chinese 《跨越网络的门槛：社交媒体上的信息扩散》) has recently been published by the Science Press in July 2022. You can find his CV here.
- Information Diffusion
- Attention Flow
- Computational Narrative
- Computational Communication
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Ph.D in Communication, 2014
City University of Hong Kong
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MA in Communication, 2010
Peking University
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BS in Journalism, 2008
Lanzhou University
Update
My book Jumping over the network threshold: Information diffusion on social media (in Chinese 《跨越网络的门槛：社交媒体上的信息扩散》) has been published by the Science Press in July 2022.
Feb 6th, 2022, I am recruiting well motivated and dedicated Ph.D. and master students. Undergraduate students are also encouraged to contact me by my email. The application materials should include you CV, transcript, writing sample, and personal statement.
硕士生。请将申请材料发送到我的邮箱📮，申请材料包括：个人简历、成绩单、代表性论文或手稿、个人传记。其中，个人传记除了描述个人经历之外，还需要介绍：编程能力和作品（尽量详细）、数学或物理学建模能力和作品（尽量详细）、如何分享知识和技能、为什么要读研（想要研究什么困惑）、为什么选择我的课题组、将来的职业规划、个人最大的优点和缺点等。
- Exited to announce that our Group Dynamics Podcast is online!
- I am organizing a Douban group to discuss computational communication research.
- My ebook Elements of Computational Communication (In Chinese 《计算传播基础讲义》）is available online!
Please kindly notethat the url of the online book has been changed to https://chengjun.github.io/mybook/.
News
Featured Publications
Recent Work
Teaching
I am teaching the following courses:
- Ph.D Course Computational Communication Research Workshop (2020-Now)
- Master Course Introduction to Computational Communication (2018-Now)
- Undergraduate Course Computational Social Science (2020-Now)
- MOOC Course Digital Marketing (2020-Now)
- Undergraduate Course Data Journalism (2015-2022)
- Undergraduate Course Python Programming Basics For Data Science (2017-2019)
- FDU Graduate Course Introduction to Computational Communication (2015-2021)
I am planning to teach a undergraduate course based on Professor Liu Junqiang’s book titled The Craft of Writing (《写作是门手艺》). Github Repo.
- Here is the Jupyter Notebook and Slides.
- I find the Essay Writing Guide written by Jordan B Peterson is very useful. I convert it into slides and add some annotations. The Power of Writing: Ten Steps of Essay Writing.
- In addition, I highly recommend Howard Becker’s book Writing for Social Scientists (Notebook & Slides).
- Similarly, I like Anthony Miles’s introduction to A Taxonomy of Research Gaps.
I finished reading the book 「原因と結果」の経済学―――データから真実を見抜く思考法 and I think it is very useful as the textbook for the class of Causal Inference 101. Check the Slides and Notebook.
My ebook Elements of Computational Communication (In Chinese 《计算传播学网络讲义》）is now available online, enjoy! https://chengjun.github.io/mybook.
I am organizing the Tycho Reading Club to discuss the computational social science every Wendesday at News Coffee. You can learn about our future activies by scanning the QR code below or watch the videos of prior activites.
Projects
- Bringing Back the Reference Group: Agent-based Modeling of Spiral of Silence. National postdoc grant (￥50000, 2015M571722)
- The Network Threshold of the Formation and Diffusion of Public Opinion. National Social Science Fundation for Young Scholars(￥200'000, 15CXW017)
Contact
- wangchengjun@nju.edu.cn
- 163 Xianlin Street, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210023
- Room 450, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University (Xianlin Campus)
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