Kaiping Chen
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Communication, Computational Social Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stanford/
Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist
www.kaipingchen.com
- ✨Excited to share our new publication @aapor.bsky.social in Public Opinion Quarterly👇: Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
- ✨Check our new paper👇
- New paper with #IsabelVillanueva and @kaipingchen.bsky.social ✨ We tested how online users discuss #plagiarism, data #fraud, #replication failure, and (unintentional) errors by scientists – based on 19,462 X posts by @retractionwatch.com and 22,936 user replies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- ✨Sharing our new publication in @polanalysis.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social "Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content" #OpenAccess www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Our @uw-lsc.bsky.social PhD student Isabel Villanueva is sharing her research on using #LLMs for content analysis in the Social Media Analytics class now! #lsc460 #AI
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenNew name, same great program. The Department of Life Sciences Communication has answered the growing demand for experts in science communication with the newly renamed Science Communication PhD program. Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/d...
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenWant to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenThis week, LSC's @kaipingchen.bsky.social will be presenting on "Auditing Equity in Large Language Models: Insights from dialogue and image classification tasks" at our Spring #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenMaybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen: Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
- Reposted by Kaiping Chen“Our phenomenal faculty are top experts in the field, constantly engaging in innovative research and teaching." Excited to see our 1950s Mass Communications program transition into @uwmadison.bsky.social's brand new Science Communication Ph.D. ...
- ✨Excited to get the best article award with my amazing coauthors. This is our article link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- politicalcommunication.org/article/awar... Check out our interview with @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Isabel Villanueva in @polcomm.bsky.social report! Grateful to collaborate with this amazing team and deeply appreciate @curdknupfer.bsky.social for putting this interview together! #multimodal
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenNext week, University of MIchigan Professor Maria Carmen Lemos will be presenting on "Scaling Up Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenSubmit your abstracts until January 15 🔆 Would be great to see you at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna 🤩
- 🎉 Happy New Year! Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna! ⏳Submission deadline: January 15 More here: shorturl.at/AmocX #css #commsky #polisky
- 🚨New paper out. Combining a large-scale survey with an extensive #COVID media archive in five countries, we show that fear in headlines boosts our sense of risk, but can actually reduce how often we follow preventive measures. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenAPSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)
- 🥰Feel super humbled and grateful for this new milestone in my career. Thanks to my students and colleagues @UW_LSC and beyond that inspire my work all the time! Look forward to continue bringing social impact to science & society!
- 🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉 #OnWisconsin #scicomm
- 🥰Feel super humbled and grateful for this new milestone in my career. Thanks to my students and colleagues @UW_LSC and beyond that inspire my work all the time! Look forward to continue bringing social impact to science & society!
- 🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉 #OnWisconsin #scicomm
- 🚨Excited to share our new publication @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. In our experiment, we showed promising evidence of how to design intergroup framing in news coverage to reduce conspiracy beliefs in the context of Sino-U.S. relationship👇 #journalism #scicomm journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- ✨Feel honored to receive the Vilas Early-Career Award. Very grateful to my students, colleagues and communities that inspire my work all the time! Excited for the next journey! 🥰
- Congratulations to LSC Assistant Professor @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Professor Mike Xenos for receiving Vilas Faculty Investigator Awards for teaching and research excellence! 🎉 #OnWisconsin #scicomm Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2024/12/12/l...
- 🚨🚨Check out this timely forum on standardization in Computational Communication Science👇 It’s such a great learning experience to think and write about this with other amazing scholars!
- ✨Time for meta reflection✨ In this forum, @jmcquarterly.bsky.social @docmattweber.bsky.social and I invited colleagues to discuss the pros & cons of standardization in Computational Communication Science, and the tension between innovation, rigor & inclusion. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Kaiping Chen🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09). docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenFolks - it's a mess out there. Colleagues: Your preregistered article needs to have a working link to the preregistration + clearly identify deviations. Editors: Please check that the preregistration is included. Reviewers: Please make sure to review the prereg! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenWe asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/
- 📢In our new report, co-authored with @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social, we examine how people in🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).
- 🚨Excited to publish my perspective on Computational methods in Chinese Internet Studies in the Special Issue "Thirty Years of the Internet in China" with many other wonderful papers. Check it out 👇@SageJournals journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctp/9/4
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenTeaching or learning stats and R with our textbook (bit.ly/dss_book)? We are already working on the 2nd edition. We are adding heterogeneous effects, categorical variables, and some tidyverse, among others. Is there anything else that you would like us to include? 🙏
- ✨Had such an inspiring conversation today at @ifkw.bsky.social on validation, bias, and quality criteria in Computational Communication Research. Grateful to @valeriehase.bsky.social @marhai.bsky.social for the invitation to the #CSS Fellow Program—learning so much from this incredible experience!
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenA new study from @kaipingchen.bsky.social, Ashley Cate, and Steven Moen uses county-level data to better understand how social inequalities and location impact Wisconsin's digital divide. CC: @uw-lsc.bsky.social ids.wisc.edu/2024/11/26/n...
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenOur Polarization Lab at Duke hopes to hire another post-doc this year-- apply below and/or please share with people who might be interested: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29305
- 🔎 How are different genders depicted in science discourses across digital platforms? In our paper at JCMC, we analyzed text and visuals in #TikTok and #YouTube videos, revealing patterns on gender stereotypes and user engagement. #scicomm #datascience 👇 academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...
- Reposted by Kaiping ChenVery excited to share my latest work “Critical Computational Social Science” now out in @epj_ds In this paper I trace the epistemological roots of critical methods and argue for the need to integrate critical approaches into Computational Social...
- Reposted by Kaiping Chen🚨Our new paper in Political Analysis presents a novel, cross-platform method for estimating the ideology of YouTube videos. What we found: it is possible to do this at scale with an efficient, automated method! 🧵1/
- 🔍 How are different genders depicted in science discourses across digital platforms? In our new study at JCMC, we analyzed text and visuals in TikTok and YouTube videos, revealing patterns on gender stereotypes and user engagement. #scicomm #datascience academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...
- Check this workshop: "Thirty Years of the Internet in China: A Retrospective" at UPenn Annenberg School this week! I'm thrilled to speak about computational methods for internet studies. Can't wait to exchange ideas and reconnect with colleagues! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
