Prof. Jonathan Zhu of the Centre gave a keynote speech at the Cloud Forum on Digital Society organized by the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) on 21 August. The event attracted over 210,000 viewers through several livestream platforms in mainland China, which represents the largest size of audience in his teaching career. Jonathan’s talk
CCR Director Jonathan Zhu gave an online talk on Aug 3 to faculty members and students at Seoul National University (SNU), Korea. The talk was part of the Overseas Scholar Colloquium in Journalism organized by the Institute of Communication Research at SNU. In the 90-minute talk on Computational Methods and Social Media, Prof. Zhu presented
Dr. Xiaohui (Vincent) Wang has recently joined the Department of Media and Communication as an assistant professor and the Centre for Communication Research as a regular member. Vincent received his PhD in information studies from Nanyang Technological University and was a research assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University before coming to CityU. His research
CCR member Dr. Xiaofan Liu has won a data science research grant from The International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) and the Grand Challenges (GC) initiative. His proposal is among the ten projects selected from more than 400 applications submitted from 69 countries after a rigorous review process involving an international panel. Dr. Liu’s proposed project, entitled “Characterizing COVID-19 transmission chains
COM hosted an online Zoom seminar on October 8, 2020 with Virginia Tech's Dr. Eric Jardine, an expert in the study of the dark web. The presentation showcased how news about the takedown of the dark web used for illegal drug trade sent deterrent and publicity signals to the public. The research design combining content
