Socrates Lab

Welcome to the Socrates Lab! We are a small research team affiliated with the Computational Communication Collaboratory, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University.
Github: https://github.com/socrateslab
People
Directer
Cheng-Jun Wang https://chengjun.github.io/
Current Members
Faculty Members
Ph.D. Students
Master Students
Graduates
Master
- Zhicong Chen (2016) https://zhicongchen.github.io/
- Tiewei Li (2017) https://tieweill.github.io/
- Youqing Wu (2018) https://iamyourking007.github.io/
- Huimin Xu (2018) https://xuhuimin2017.github.io/
- Gongjing Lu (2019) https://lugongjing.github.io/bbiou218/
- Linyan Lu (2019) https://linyanlu.github.io/
- Yuanyuan Li (2019) https://andrea-lee.github.io/
Activities
Tycho Club

PlatoTalks Group Meeting

- Github Discussions https://github.com/socrateslab/PlatoTalks/discussions
- Weibo Posts https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E6%9F%8F%E6%8B%89%E5%9B%BE%E8%AF%B4%23
Group Dynamics Podcast
Exited to announce that our Group Dynamics Podcast is online! https://www.ximalaya.com/album/69292192
Douban Group
Socrates Team

We play badminton every Sunday afternoon (17:00-19:00) from the autumn of 2021.
- I recommend the badminton course taught by Lee Jae Bok.
Lab News
Journal Articles
- 卢林艳、李玉端、王成军 * (2023) 人工智能时代媒体行业的技能与未来就业:基于机器学习和网络分析的方法. 新闻大学. 201(1):106-122. Data & Code.
- 陈志聪、周钰、巢乃鹏、 王成军 * (2022)社会加速与传播游戏之间的张力:移动阅读的碎片化、多样性与持续性.《新闻与传播研究》.(10):17-33.
- Zhang Y., Feng M., Shang K.K. *, Ran Y., Wang C.J. * (2022) Peeking strategy for Online News Diffusion Prediction via Machine Learning. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.598:127357. doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2022.127357.
- Yan X.F., Wang C.J. * (2021) With Greater Popularity Comes Less Responsibility: The Popularity Fallacy of Big Vs' Public Participation on Sina Weibo. Chinese Journal of Communication. 14(4):430-450. doi:10.1080/17544750.2021.1915833
- Xu H, Zhang Z, Wu L *, Wang C.J. * (2019) The Cinderella Complex: Word embeddings reveal gender stereotypes in movies and books. PLoS ONE 14(11): e0225385. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225385
- 卢功靖, 卢林艳, 李媛媛, 王成军 *(2021)基于议题类型的临近预测:使用社交媒体预测新冠确诊人数. 中国网络传播研究. 20:93-117.
- 卢林艳, 李媛媛, 卢功靖, 刘熠, 王成军 * (2021) 社交机器人驱动的计算宣传:社交机器人识别及其行为特征分析. 中国传媒大学学报(自然科学版).28 (02):34-43+53. Data & Code.
- 苟泽鹏,董 悦,闫一帆, 王成军 (2021) 数据科学的浪潮:计算社会科学研究综述. 科学经济社会. 39(163):1-16.
Conference Papers
- Yixiao Sun; Xue-Fei Yan; Yaotian Zhang; Zhicong Chen; Cheng-Jun Wang * (2023) From Imperialism to Cultural Imperialism: Localized Versus Globalized Advertisements of Imported Commodities in China (1932–1937). To be presented at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication, 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Lihan Yan; Yiwei Ni; Xiangling Tan; Xinya Jiang; Zhicong Chen;Cheng-Jun Wang * (2023) The Narrative Gene of Collective Gatekeeping: Pandemic, Government Regularization, Economic Development, and the Publicness of Weibo Hot Search (2020-2021). To be presented at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference, 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Zepeng Gou; Youqin Wu; Xinzhi Zhang; Cheng-Jun Wang * (2023)Yesterday Once More: Collective Storytelling Constitutes the Success of Digital Cultural Products on Music Streaming Platforms. To be presented at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference, 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Xue-Fei Yan; Linyan Lu; Zhicong Chen; Cheng-Jun Wang * (2023) Social Acceleration, Play, and Behavior Cocoon: Analyzing the Impact of ICT Use on Daily Behavior in the United Kingdom. To be presented at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference, 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Yaotian Zhang; Gongjing Lu; Yixiao Sun; Zhicong Chen;Cheng-Jun Wang * (2023) Traversing the Valley of Despair in Affective Mobilization: Issue Engagement, Emotion, and Online Donation on Sina Weibo during the Outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic. To be presented at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference, 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Xinya Jiang, Sixing Hu, Yunjie Fei, Cheng-Jun Wang * (2022) The Reinforcement of Opinion Polarization on the Smart Media Platforms: Analyzing the News and Comments about Sino-US Relations on Toutiao. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). 11-15 July 2022, Beijing, China.