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, such as Internet Research, Cyberpsychology, Telematics and Informatics, Scientific Reports, PloS ONE, and Physica A. 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
News
[Sep 14, 2021] I am recruiting well motivated and dedicated Ph.D. and master students. Undergraduate students are also encouraged to contact me by my email: wangchengjun@nju.edu.cn. The application materials should include you CV, transcript, and personal statement.
博士生、直博生和硕士生。请将申请材料发送到 wangchengjun@nju.edu.cn，申请材料包括：个人简历、成绩单、已发表论文（如有）和个人陈述。其中，个人陈述的内容包括：为什么要读博/硕、为什么申请南大新闻传播学院、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。
- It is my great pleasure to open the Gutenberg Fiction Dataset. You can get the dataset by participating the 2021 Chinese Contest of Digital Humanities. Learn more about this dataset from its Github repository.
- I am working on the undergraduate course Data Journalism, please check the github repo.
- I am writing a book titled Jumping Over The Network Threshold (In Chinese 《跨越网络的门槛：社交媒体上的信息扩散》). Please check this Github repository to see more information.
- I was invited to give a talk titled Information diffusion, attention flow, and computational narratives: Reflections on the logic of computational social science (信息扩散、注意力流动和计算叙事：反思计算社会科学的逻辑) on the Annual Conference of CCR, July 17-18, 2021, Xi’an. The slides can be found in the Github repository.
- I attended the Swarma ‘Sansi’ Summer Camp, Maoshan, Jurong, July 2-6, 2021.
- I attended the 2021 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS2021-Beijing) in Beijing during June 14-25, 2021.
- I am organizing a Douban group to discuss on the topic of 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/.
Recent Publications
Teaching
I am teaching the following courses:
- Undergraduate Course Computational Social Science (2020-Now)
- Master Course Big Data Mining and Analysis (2018-Now)
- Undergraduate Course Data Journalism (2015-Now)
- Undergraduate Course Python Programming Basics For Data Science (2017-2019)
- FDU Graduate Course Introduction to Computational Communication (2015-2021)
My ebook Elements of Computational Communication (In Chinese 《计算传播基础讲义》）is now available online, enjoy! https://chengjun.github.io/mybook.
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 210093
- Room 450, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University (Xianlin Campus)
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