Kaiping Chen

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

United States

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Kaiping Chen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. His research areas encompass digital communication, public engagement, and the impact of social media on societal issues. Recent publications include analyses of collective narcissism on Twitter, digital divides in Wisconsin, and the effects of news coverage during infectious disease outbreaks. He also explores computational methods in communication and the role of narrative in civic empowerment among marginalized communities.

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Geospatial Modeling of COVID-19 Spread and Risk Communication by Integrating Human Mobility and Social Media Big Data

Open Date: 2020-04-01

Close Date: 2022-09-01

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Yingdan Lu

Assistant Professor

Northwestern University

UNITED STATES

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Jingwen Zhang

Associate Professor

University of California, Davis

UNITED STATES

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Aaron Yi Kai Ng

Assistant Professor

Singapore Institute of Technology

SINGAPORE

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Matthew Louis Mauriello

University of Delaware

UNITED STATES

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Niels G. Mede

University of Zurich

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June Jeon

Assistant Professor

Chungbuk National University

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Shelley Boulianne

Professor of Digital Political Communication

FRANCE

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Cuihua Shen

Assistant Professor

University of California, Davis

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Jingbo Meng

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Ohio State University

UNITED STATES

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Yiming Wang

University of Wisconsin-Madison

UNITED STATES

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Curtis Bram

Assistant Professor

University of Texas at Dallas

UNITED STATES

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David Michael Sirkin

Stanford University

UNITED STATES

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Annie Waldherr

Universität Wien

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Communicating Scientific Norms in the Hybrid Media Environment: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Social Media Engagement With Watchdog Science Journalism

Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback

Between Innovation and Standardization: Best Practices and Inclusive Guidelines in Computational Communication Science

Bridging digital divides in Wisconsin: an examination of policy efforts and effectiveness over the past five years

How collective narcissism became contagious in public conversations of “Stop the Steal” on Twitter

Ubiquitous News Coverage and Its Varied Effects in Communicating Protective Behaviors to American Adults in Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Time-Series and Longitudinal Panel Study

Computational methods in Chinese Internet studies— An overview and looking ahead

Uncovering how Black and Latinx Communities perceive environmental justice: Integrating a public deliberation quasi-experiment and computational methods

When Science Meets Digital Branding

The Impact of Public Deliberation and Identity-Based Storytelling on Civic Empowerment among Latinx Communities on Environmental Issues

Therapy for Therapists: Design Opportunities to Support the Psychological Well-being of Mental Health Workers

Fostering Accurate Reasoning About Outgroups: Experimental Evidence From Intergroup Relation Frames on Conspiracy Beliefs Amid Sino–U.S. Tensions

Pandemic Nationalism: Use of Government Social Media for Political Information and Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in China

A critical appraisal of diversity in digital knowledge production: Segregated inclusion on YouTube

Going Beyond Affective Polarization: How Emotions and Identities are Used in Anti-Vaccination TikTok Videos

How Science Influencers Polarize Supportive and Skeptical Communities Around Politicized Science: A Cross-Platform and Over-Time Comparison

How Climate Movement Actors and News Media Frame Climate Change and Strike: Evidence from Analyzing Twitter and News Media Discourse from 2018 to 2021

Unraveling China’s digital traces: evaluating communication scholarship through a sociotechnical lens

Uncovering gender stereotypes in controversial science discourse: evidence from computational text and visual analyses across digital platforms

When national identity meets conspiracies: the contagion of national identity language in public engagement and discourse about COVID-19 conspiracy theories

The use of emotions in conspiracy and debunking videos to engage publics on YouTube

Framing the Global Youth Climate Movement: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Greta Thunberg’s Moral, Hopeful, and Motivational Framing on Instagram

Science Factionalism: How Group Identity Language Affects Public Engagement With Misinformation and Debunking Narratives on a Popular Q&A Platform in China

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Collaborators (13)

Yingdan Lu

Jingwen Zhang

Aaron Yi Kai Ng

Matthew Louis Mauriello

Niels G. Mede

June Jeon

Shelley Boulianne

Cuihua Shen

Jingbo Meng

Yiming Wang

Curtis Bram

David Michael Sirkin

Annie Waldherr

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