About

Cheng-Jun Wang is currently an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University. He is the director of Ogilvy Data Science Lab, the associate 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.

• 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)

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

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
  • 2018 Spring
• NJU Undergraduate Course Data Journalism
  • 2017 Autumn
  • 2016 Autumn
  • 2015 Autumn
• NJU Undergraduate Course Programming Basics For Computational Communication
  • 2018 Spring
  • 2017 Spring

• [email protected]
• +86 025-83686110
• Room A307, Feiyimin Building, 22 Gulou District, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, 210093, China
• Tuesday 14:00 to 17:00 or email for appointment