Strong Presence of Web Mining Lab at ICA 2018

Strong Presence of Web Mining Lab at ICA 2018

Members of the Web Mining Lab had a strong show at the 68th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA) in May 24-28, Prague, Czech Republic. During the conference, lab members presented ten papers, with seven in Computational Methods Interest Group and the remaining three in Health Communication, Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group, and the preconference on “Conceptualizing the New Silk Road as Communication”, respectively. The presented papers are listed below:

• Peng, T. Q. , Zhu, J. J. H. , &Chen, H. X. (2018). Re-explicating mobile phone use as a sequential process (for Computational Methods Interest Group)
• Bae, A. & Peng, T. Q. (2018). Congressional communication networks on various social issues (for Computational Methods Interest Group)
• Zhang, L. , Wu, Y., Wang, S. F., & Lin, Z. Z. (2018). Online Ballot Stuffing: Influence of Self-boosting Manipulation on Rating Dynamics in Online Rating Systems (for Computational Methods Interest Group)
• Zhang, X., Zhang, L. , Zhang, M., Liu, Y., He, W., & Zhou, W. (2018). Monkey King, Naruto, and Mickey Mouse: Mapping the co-consumption network of animation protagonists in China (for Computational Methods Interest Group)
• Wang, C. J. , Chen, Z. C., & Chao, N. (2018). Leveraging the Flow of Collective Attention for Computational Communication Research (for Computational Methods Interest Group)
• Hilbert, M., Barnett, G., Blumenstock, J., Diesner, J., Frey, S., Lamberson, P. J., Shen, C., Smaldino, P., Waldherr, A., Zhan, J. W., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2018). Computational communication science: A methodological catalyzer for a maturing discipline (for Computational Methods Interest Group)
• Zhou, Y. & Yang, Y. (2018). Mapping contentious discourse in China: Activists’ discursive strategies and their coordination with media (for Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group)
• Song, J. &Jiang, S. (2018). Framing, psychological distance, and audience perception: An experiment on perception of The Belt and Road by Chinese and UAE students (for “Conceptualizing the New Silk Road as Communication” pre-conference)
• Zhong, Z. J. , Liu, K., & Xie, X. (2018). How Medic–Patient Communication and Relationship Influence Chinese Patients’ Medication Adherence (for Health Communication Division)
• Guan, L. , Zhang, Y. F. , & Zhu, J. J. H. (2018). Impact of Self-Interest, Peer Influence and Global Popularity on Blogging Activities (for Computational Methods Interest Group)