Assistant Professor in Journalism & Media Studies @JMSCHKU. PhD @UTJSchool.

Hong Kong
Joined August 2014
1/3 Today, an anecdote shared by an invited speaker at #NeurIPS2024 left many Chinese scholars, myself included, feeling uncomfortable. As a community, I believe we should take a moment to reflect on why such remarks in public discourse can be offensive and harmful.
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📢 We’re hiring! Join us at @HKUniversity’s Faculty of Social Sciences as a Professor/Associate Professor in Computational Social Sciences. Apply by Dec 31, 2024. Details: jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/529957…
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1/x Never thought I’d share this kind of story. Was at @nycgov for a family gathering and on the NYC subway, I was *physically* and *verbally* attacked by a woman who punched my side with her fist and yelled at me, saying ching chong, dumbass, f*ck,
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Now live @icahdq 2024: “Computational Communication Research in the Global South” panel hosted by @tianyangyt . Great presentations and discussants. Room Coolangatta 3 (Star L3).
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Don't miss it! Join us at #ica24 for a deep dive into Computational Communication Research in the Global South! 🗓️ Friday, Jun 21 ⏰ 1:30 PM 📍 Coolangatta 3 (Star L3) Be there and be inspired!
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Thrilled to share @MDDCoop 's new pub in @journalqd: "Battle for Inbox and Bucks: Comparing Email Fundraising Strategies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election" by me, @borah, @Ross_Dahlke, and @JosephineLukito!
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This study compares the campaign emails from Trump and Biden during the 2020 election. We found: (1) predominant emails (>95%) were for fundraising; (2) Trump was more likely to use strategic appeals in their fundraising emails; (3) Trump attacked more, and Biden acclaimed more.
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Our results show a dramatic increase in the volume of emails from Trump during the final weeks of the 2020 cycle, one explanation could be that they were running out the money, according to the data from opensecrets.org/2020-preside…
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For those teaching undergrad research methods, this is a nice example of seeing an empirical pattern (pedestrian deaths) then systematically testing hypotheses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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When are #protests effective? There are two key lessons: 1) nonviolent protests are effective at mobilizing sympathizers to support the cause 2) disruptive protests can motivate support for policy change among resistant individuals.
Really excited to share our new paper "When Are Social Protests Effective?", out in @TICS, which introduces a new theoretical framework for evaluating the effectiveness of social protest: tinyurl.com/mr4bd3sc
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Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate online stems from the same fringe, white supremacist communities who target both groups interchangeably, finds @willrhobbs @NazitaLajevardi, Li & @calebjlucas, suggesting we need to consider hate against both in tandem doi.org/10.1007/s11109-023-0…
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Bin Chen retweeted
Less than 31 hours since OpenAI started dropping the ChatGPT vision feature on pro users... People are scratching their heads in disbelief. 10 wild examples:
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Bin Chen retweeted
ChatGPT is now browsing enabled. It’s not just able to search, but can also click into webpages (and site owners can choose whether to permit access) to find the most helpful information & links for you. Available to Plus and Enteprise users:
ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021.
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It's going to be an active #ICA23 in Toronto for MDDC. Check out these MDDC projects and other presentations from MDDC members 👇
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Regression Modeling for Linguistic Data finally exists as a book! You can pre-order the paperback (released June 6), e.g. here: mitpress.mit.edu/.../regress… You can still grab the free version here: osf.io/pnumg/ #rstats #languagescience #linguistics #Statistics
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🤯 so much great work from @MDDCoop
It's going to be an active #ICA23 in Toronto for MDDC. Check out these MDDC projects and other presentations from MDDC members 👇
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🙌We are pleased to announce our collaborative report on The State of Digital Media Data, 2023, sponsored by @SSRC_mtp . The report highlights current practices & challenges in digital media data research at the collection, analysis, and sharing level. Highlights below: 1/n
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