A meeting with undergraduate students was held at the beginning of Semester B on 20 January 2020. Students from 3 different undergraduate programs, BATVB, BAMDCM and BDCOM were invited. The objective of the meeting is to enhance communication among students; to introduce our undergraduate programs in details as well as the newly launched student program
Prof. Jonathan Zhu, Dr. Tetsuro Kobayashi, and Dr. Xiaofan Liu of the Department of Media & Communication were invited to give talks at the First International Workshop on Computational Humanities and Social Science at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan on 19 January 2020. Tohoku University, one of the seven leading national universities in Japan, has recently
COM MA students with teachers (Left) MACNM Programme Leader, Dr Chris Shen; (Right) MAIMC Programme Leader, Dr Lin Wan-Ying In order to strengthen students' attachments with the Department, a meeting with MA students was held at the beginning of the semester. Academic advising arrangements were emphasized and students were encouraged to approach staff and faculty members for
Prof. WU Ye from Beijing Normal University gave a talk to the department on January 13, 2020. He summarized his recent work on the analysis of a popular Chinese knowledge sharing platform, Zhihu (知乎) and discussed their findings of the factors which affect the continuity of users knowledge sharing behavior. Prof. WU visits the department
In the latest competition for the Major Grants of National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC), Prof. Jonathan Zhu obtained a sub-contracted project on “Data-driven Methods for Computational Communication Research.” The project is one of the five sub-contracted projects of the Major Grant on “Theories, Methods, and Applications of Computational Communication Research in the Big
