Cheng-Jun Wang

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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 Internet Research, Cyberpsychology, Telematics and Informatics, Scientific Reports, PloS ONE, and Physica A. In 2014, He founded the website of computational communication. You can find his CV here.

Social influence plays a crucial role in determining the size of information diffusion. Drawing on threshold models, we reformulate the …

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

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

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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.
Undergraduate Course Computational Social Science
NJU Master Course Big Data Mining and Analysis
- 2018 Spring
NJU Undergraduate Course Data Journalism
NJU Undergraduate Course Programming Basics For Computational Communication
- 2018 Spring
- 2017 Spring

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