A team from Web Mining Lab of Centre for Communication Research won three awards from the annual competition of Big Data & Computer Intelligence organized by the China Computer Federation (CCF-BDCI2017), which lasted three months and closed on Dec 24 in Changshu, Jiangsu province of China. The Awards include a Best Award in Creative Exploration
CCR organized an interdisciplinary lecture, featuring a mathametician using DNA method to study human family history, on Dec 4, 2017. The talk was given by Prof. Dinghua Shi of Shanghai University, with a title of “Historical Anthropology: Four Bloodline Case Studies”. Family history has been the traditional territory of history and anthropology. Recent advancements in
A group of 40 administrators and teachers of key high schools in Mainland China visited Dept. of Media and Communication on Dec 4, 2017, shopping for university programs for their high school graduates next year. Jonathan Zhu, Director of CCR and Chair Professor of Computational Social Science, gave a talk on what social science curriculam
The Centre for Communication Research is pleased to welcome three new Associate Members, including Dr. Jacob Groshek of Boston University (USA), Dr. Eunil Park of Hanyang University (Korea), and Dr. Taiquan (Winson) Peng of Michigan State University (USA). They are joining the exisiting Core Members (who are faculty members in Department of Media and Communication) and Associate
In his speech at the annual conference of Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Mass Communication (CAHJC) on Aug 18, Jonathan Zhu of the Lab focused on theoretical contributions that computational methods have made to communication research. In particular, computational communication research provides large-scale and verifiable behavioral evidence to two core theories of communication
