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Kaiping Chen

@kaipingchen.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Science and Technology Communication, Computational Social Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stanford/ Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist www.kaipingchen.com

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📣 check our new paper in @psrm.bsky.social: How patronage communicates: information campaigns and government responsiveness in China
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Excited to share our new paper, ten years in making, with Haemin Jee! 👇
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/08/2026
#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - How patronage communicates: information campaigns and government responsiveness in China - cup.org/4xr0jXB - Haemin Jee & @kaipingchen.bsky.social #FirstView
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Mike S. Schäfer @mss7676.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New review: #ClimateChange #Communication in the Age of #ArtificialIntelligence w/ @kaipingchen.bsky.social #DanielaMahl #JamesPainter @sophiavolk.bsky.social - how GenAI shapes climate comm, stakeholders, journalism/creators, content, use & effects 🔗 wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Check our article in New Media & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... In “Refusal as Silence,” we ask whether AI refusals are applied equally across users. Refusal can protect users, but it can also operate as a form of silence. Sha Luo @zeningduan.bsky.social @sangjung-kim.bsky.social
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📣 I’m delighted to share that I will be serving as a Board of Reviewing Editor for @pnasnexus.org for the next three years, starting tomorrow. I’m especially looking forward to working with scholarship in communication and computational social science!
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Andrew Trexler @atrexler.com · 24/04/2026
Thrilled to announce my paper with @dianamejordan.bsky.social & sky-less Trent Ollerenshaw is now published open-access at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. In a (very) large replication & extension, we show that design effects of repeated measure experiments are nonzero but typically small. Thread:
Abstract for "New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research" by Diana Jordan, Trent Ollerenshaw, and Andrew Trexler, published in the American Political Science Review. The abstract text reads: "We re-examine recent influential claims that repeated measure experimental designs offer large precision gains without biasing treatment effect estimates in survey research. We test these claims by experimentally varying the design of six classic political science experiments across three distinct large samples of U.S. adults (total N = 13,163). In contrast to prior evidence, we observe consistent attenuation of treatment effects in repeated measure designs. However, we show in simulations that this average design effect is small enough, and the precision gains large enough, that we recommend repeated measure designs for broad application—though (large-N) post-only designs may be preferable when research priorities include estimating the precise magnitude of a treatment effect. We additionally explore how several design considerations affect the bias-precision trade-off, such as within-subject versus between-groups designs, the relative separation of repeated measures within single surveys, and differences in respondent characteristics across sample types."
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🌟 Exciting career update: I am honored to be selected for The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's New Voices cohort (2026–2028). Look forward to collaborating with an outstanding group of emerging STEM leaders to tackle national and global challenges together!
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🚨We were very excited to present our work on "Seeing Risk Before It Happens: How Vision Language Models Understand Real World Dangers" to American Family Insurance yesterday! We look forward to releasing our VLM benchmark soon!
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 05/11/2025
A new study by the @falklab.bsky.social and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages:
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Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🚨I had a fantastic visit to UCLA this week. I shared my team’s work on gender representation in science and technology communication, from digital platforms to Large Vision Language Models. Thank you for the invitation! Our studies are here: lnkd.in/d7cvXmDW lnkd.in/dVHqJiez
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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Currently in FirstView: “Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content.” @kaipingchen.bsky.social and and colleagues introduce “vec-tionaries” which are embedding-based tools for measuring latent features of messages.
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Our #AEJMC25 panel “Visualize Science Communication for Impactful Journalism” is happening now at Pacific C [4FL]! We have panelists from academia, foundation and journalism joining us to share perspective on visual credibility in the age of Generative AI. @aejmc.bsky.social
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
💫Super excited to give a talk at my alma mater Fudan University June 13 on “AI and Social Change”. Welcome to join me online or on site. The talk will be delivered in English. 👇
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Institute for Diversity Science @idswisc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
In our latest podcast episode, hear from @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Corey Jackson about trust in science and how researchers can create the kinds of environments where non-scientists can better engage with scientific work. ids.wisc.edu/2025/05/21/d...
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Diversity Science Podcast: Kaiping Chen and Corey Jackson on Trust in Science
In this episode, Kaiping Chen and Corey Jackson talk about trust in science—and how we can think about it from the perspective of diversity science. They argue that the research community should aim t...
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
✨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-...
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Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback
Abstract. Social media has made it easier than ever for citizens to voice their opinion to their elected representatives. However, officials may infer that
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
✨Check our new paper👇
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
✨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...
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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
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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New 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...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Want 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
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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This 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...
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Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Maybe 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.
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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“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. ...
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
✨Excited to get the best article award with my amazing coauthors. This is our article link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Going Beyond Affective Polarization: How Emotions and Identities are Used in Anti-Vaccination TikTok Videos
The rise of social media as a source of science and health information has brought challenges to informed citizenship and social trust due to the spread of misinformation, particularly anti-vaccina...
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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Next 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...
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LSC’s exciting lineup of renowned speakers for the 2025 science communication colloquium
Mark your calendars for LSC’s 2025 science communication colloquium series. The series brings distinguished speakers from all over the U.S. and the world to the UW-Madison campus, either in-person or ...
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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Submit your abstracts until January 15 🔆 Would be great to see you at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna 🤩
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
🚨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....
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Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The perception of reality could matter more than reality itself when it comes to disease outbreaks. News media are important sources of information during global disease outbreaks, such as the COVI...
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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
APSR 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)
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
🥰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!
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
🥰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!
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🚨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/...
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
✨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! 🥰
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🚨🚨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!
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Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🚨 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!
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Conferences, 2025
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Folks - 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...
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Open Letter on the Need for Preregistration Transparency in Peer Review
[Academics who wish to sign the letter can do so here: https://forms.gle/aVnT6tmufoRKWQxk7] Open Letter on the Need for Preregistration Transparency in Peer Review Dear colleagues, We write to you ...
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We 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/
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🚨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
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
✨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!
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Institute for Diversity Science @idswisc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A 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...
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New Study Highlights Impact of Social Inequalities and Location on Wisconsin’s “Digital Divide”
Access to high-speed internet has become crucial to staying connected—to jobs, medical care, social services, and many other parts of life. A new paper by Ashley Cate, Steven Moen, and IDS Affiliate K...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Our 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
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
🔎 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...
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Uncovering gender stereotypes in controversial science discourse: evidence from computational text and visual analyses across digital platforms
Abstract. This study examines how gender stereotypes are reflected in discourses around controversial science issues across two platforms, YouTube and TikT
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Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Very 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...
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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org · 15/02/2024
🚨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/
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
🔍 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...
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Uncovering gender stereotypes in controversial science discourse: evidence from computational text a...
Abstract. This study examines how gender stereotypes are reflected in discourses around controversial science issues across two platforms, YouTube and TikTok. U
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
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/...
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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Boundary spanning philanthropy, research, policy, and the practice of #scicomm and public #engagement. Very excited for @uw-lsc.bsky.social's lineup of colloquium speakers this spring ...
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LSC announces an exciting lineup of renowned speakers for the 2024 science communication colloquium
Mark your calendars as LSC’s 2024 science communication colloquium is bringing distinguished speakers from all over the U.S., and the world, to our UW-Madison campus. Colloquium attendees will hear ...
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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
LSC Assistant Professor @Kaiping_Chen’s novel research into the the interaction between #ChatGPT and users reveals key insights into user experience and how #AI could change users' opinions and attitudes towards topics such as BLM and Climate Change. Learn more at: news.wisc.edu/chats-with-a...
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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Check out the latest article from The Badger Herald featuring LSC Asst. Professor Kaiping Chen as she delves into her #research about the relationship between #gender, #race, #education, #inequality, and #technology. badgerherald.com/news/2023/12... #Scicomm
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Discussion held by CDGW reveals researched science inequities, disparities in communities
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