Yuner ZHU

CVA925, 9/F, Lee Shau Kee Communication and Visual Arts Building, Hong Kong Baptist University
yunerzhu@hkbu.edu.hk

Experienced in designing, conducting and teaching computational social sciences.
Interested in understanding civil resilience, political polarization, and information operations on social media.

Moving on is my way to keep balance.

Education

Doctorate Study

The University of Hong Kong, JMSC

Thesis Topic: The Evolution of Opinions -- opinion diversity, dynamics and social control

Sept 2016 - Feb 2021

Post-graduate Study

National Chengchi University (Taipei), Faculty of Communication

Thesis: News frames of Chinese marriage immigrant. Using data-driven method.

Sept 2013 - Aug 2016

Under-graduate study

University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei),
Department of Science, Technology and Policy of Communication

Core Courses include C++ Programming, Calculus, Statistics and Propability, Linear Algebra, Introdution to Database, Web Design.

Aug 2009 - June 2013

Experience

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Interactive Media, Hong Kong Baptist University

Courses Taught: 1. Big Data Analytics for Media and Communication

2. AI Alignment and Data Governance

3. New Media Design & Communication

Sept 2022 - Now

Postdoc Fellow

City University of Hong Kong

Project Title: Blending Topic Modeling and Social Network Analysis: Big Data Analysis of the Hong Kong Protests

Sept 2020 - Sept 2022

Python Workshop Instructor

Soceity for Hong Kong Studies & The University of Hong Kong

By drawing inspiration from computer sciences, this course introduces the basic background on natural language processing, web crawling, sentiment analysis, data visualization, and machine learning.

For more details, please refer to the website:https://juniorworld.github.io/python-workshop-2018

Jan 2019 - Mar 2019

Teaching Assistant

The University of Hong Kong

1. Media in the age of Globalization
2. Social Media Analytics for Journalists
3. Research Method for Media Studies
4. Fundamental Data Journalism

2017 - 2019

Publications & Conferences

Zhu Y. (accepted) Privacy Cynicism and Diminishing Utility of State Surveillance: A Natural Experiment of Mandatory Location Disclosure on China’s Weibo. Big Data & Society.

Zhu Y., & Cheng E.W. (accepted) Multidimensional Diversity and Research Impact in Political Science: What 50 Years of Bibliometric Data Tells Us. Perspectives on Politics.

Zhu Y. & Fu K.W. (2023). How Propaganda Works in the Digital Era: Soft News as a Gateway. Digital Journalism. Online First. DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2156366

Zhu Y., Cheng E.W., Shen F., & Walker R.M. (2022). An Eye for an Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitude Change Toward Protest Violence, Political Communication. 39(4): 539-563

Zhu Y. & Fu K.W. (2021). Speaking Up or Staying Silent? Examining the Influences of Censorship and Behavioral Contagion on Opinion (Non-)Expression in China, New Media & Society, 23(12): 3634-3655

Zhu Y. & Fu K.W. (2019). The Relationship between Interdisciplinarity and Journal Impact Factor during 1997-2016. Journal of Communication. 69(3): 273–297

Fu K.W. & Zhu Y. (2020). Did the World Overlook the Media’s Early Warning of COVID-19? Journal of Risk Research. DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2020.1756380

Zhu Y., Fu K.W., Grépin k.A., Liang H., & Fung C.H. (2020). Limited early warnings and public attention to COVID-19 in China, January-February, 2020: a longitudinal cohort of randomly sampled Weibo users. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 1-4. doi:10.1017/dmp.2020.68

Zhu Y. (2018). The Politics of Naming: Some Reflections on the Construction of Chinese Marriage Immigrants and Nationalism in Taiwan's Media. Communication & Society, 45: 171-214. (TSSCI)

Bayliss L., Zhu Y., Fu K.W., Mullican L.A., Ahmed F., Liang H., Tsz Z., Tse H., Saroha N., Yin J., Fung C. (2021). Conversing or Diffusing Information? An Examination of Public Health Twitter Chats. The Journal of Public Interest Communications. 5(2): 27-47

Zhu Y. & Fu K.W. (2020). Mapping Ideological Landscape of Social Media: A Neural Network Approach. 2020 ICA Annual Conference.

Zhu Y. & Fu K.W. (2020). Fake Accounts, Real Impact: How social bots distort online discussion about 2019 Hong Kong Anti-extradition Bill social movement? 2020 ICA Annual Conference.

Chan C.H., Zhu Y., Chow S.L., Fu K.W. (2019). The intertwined cyberbalkanizations of Facebook pages and their audience: an analysis of Facebook pages and their audience during the 2014 Hong Kong Occupy Movement. Journal of Computational Social Science.

Zhu Y. & Chen, P. (2016, June). Keywords Selection and Concepts Categorization in the Text Mining of News (in Chinese). Paper presented at the annual conference of Chinese Communication Society. Chiayi, Taiwan.