Dr. Chung-hong Chan

Chung-Hong Chan
External Fellow and Project Director
chung-hong.chan [at] gesis.org
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Projects

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.2026
Experiences of Everyday Racism and Media-Mediated Racism in the (Political) Public Sphere

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.1825
Responsible Terrorism Coverage (ResTeCo). A Global Comparative Analysis of News Coverage About Terrorism from 1945 to the Present
B1.2204
Implicit and Explicit Racism in News and Social Media: Extent and Effects

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Journal Articles

Chan, Chung-hong (2022): sweater: Speedy Word Embedding Association Test and Extras Using R. Journal of Open Source Software, 7, issue 72, (article no. 4036), pp. 1-8. more
Chan, Chung-hong, and Christiane Grill (2022): The Highs in Communication Research: Research Topics With High Supply, High Popularity, and High Prestige in High-Impact Journals. Communication Research, 49, issue 5, pp. 599–626. more
Dobbrick, Timo, Julia Jakob, Chung-hong Chan and Hartmut Wessler (2022): Enhancing Theory-Informed Dictionary Approaches with “Glass-box” Machine Learning: The Case of Integrative Complexity in Social Media Comments. Communication Methods and Measures, 16, issue 4, pp. 303-320. more
Welbers, Kasper, Wouter van Atteveldt, Joe Bajjalieh, Dan Shalmon, Pradnyesh Joshi, Scott Althaus, Chung-hong Chan, Hartmut Wessler and Marc Jungblut (2022): Linking event archives to news: a computational method for analyzing the gatekeeping process. Communication Methods and Measures, 16, issue 1, pp. 59-78. more
Wessler, Hartmut, Scott Althaus, Chung-hong Chan, Marc Jungblut, Kasper Welbers and Wouter van Atteveldt (2022): Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism. Communication Theory, 32, issue 3, pp. 363–386. more
Zeng, Jing, Chung-hong Chan and Mike S. Schäfer (2022): Contested Chinese Dreams of AI? Public discourse about Artificial intelligence on WeChat and People’s Daily Online. Information, Communication & Society, 25, issue 3, pp. 319-340. more
Chan, Chung-hong, and Jing Zeng (2021): A cross-national diagnosis of infodemics: comparing the topical and temporal features of misinformation around COVID-19 in China, India, the US, Germany and France. Online Information Review, 45, issue 4, pp. 709-728. more
Chan, Chung-hong, Joseph Bajjalieh, Loretta Auvil, Hartmut Wessler, Scott Althaus, Kasper Welbers, Wouter van Atteveldt and Marc Jungblut (2021): Four best practices for measuring news sentiment using ‘off-the-shelf’ dictionaries: a large-scale p-hacking experiment. Computational Communication Research, 3, issue 1, pp. 1-27. more
Wozniak, Antal, Hartmut Wessler, Chung-hong Chan and Julia Lück (2021): The Event-Centered Nature of Global Public Spheres: The UN Climate Change Conferences, Fridays for Future, and the (Limited) Transnationalization of Media Debates. International Journal of Communication, 15, pp. 688–714. more
Chan, Chung-hong, Hartmut Wessler, Eike Mark Rinke, Kasper Welbers, Wouter van Atteveldt and Scott Althaus (2020): How Combining Terrorism, Muslim, and Refugee Topics Drives Emotional Tone in Online News: A Six-Country Cross-Cultural Sentiment Analysis. International Journal of Communication, 14, pp. 3569–3594. more
Chan, Chung-hong, and Marius Sältzer (2020): oolong: An R package for validating automated content analysis tools. Journal of Open Source Software, 5, issue 55, (article no. 2461). more
Chan, Chung-hong, Jing Zeng, Hartmut Wessler, Marc Jungblut, Kasper Welbers, Joseph Bajjalieh, Wouter van Atteveldt and Scott Althaus (2020): Reproducible Extraction of Cross-lingual Topics (rectr). Communication Methods and Measures, 14, issue 4, pp. 285-305. more
Chan, Chung-hong, Cassius Siu-lun Chow and King-Wa Fu (2019): Echoslamming: how incivility interacts with cyberbalkanization on the social media in Hong Kong. Asian Journal of Communication, 29, issue 4, pp. 307-327. more
Chan, Chung-hong, Junior Yuner Zhu, Cassius Siu-lun Chow and King-Wa Fu (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, 2, issue 2, pp. 183–205. more
Liang, Hai, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Chung-hong Chan, Laura E. Pechta, Belinda J. Smith, Rossmary D. Marquez-Lameda, Martin I. Meltzer and King-Wa Fu (2019): How did Ebola information spread on Twitter: broadcasting or viral spreading?. BMC Public Health, 19, (Article number: 438 (2019)). more
Chan, Chung-hong, and King-Wa Fu (2018): The “Mutual Ignoring” Mechanism of Cyberbalkanization: Triangulating Big Data Analysis and Agent-Based Modeling. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 15, issue 4, pp. 378-387. more
Fung, Isaac Chun-Hai, Jing Zeng, Chung-hong Chan, Hai Liang, Jingjing Yin, Zhaochong Liu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse and King-Wa Fu (2018): Twitter and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, South Korea, 2015: a Multi-lingual Study. Infection, Health and Disease, 23, issue 1, pp. 10-16. more
Chan, Chung-hong, and King-Wa Fu (2017): The Relationship Between Cyberbalkanization and Opinion Polarization: Time-Series Analysis on Facebook Pages and Opinion Polls During the Hong Kong Occupy Movement and the Associated Debate on Political Reform. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 22, issue 5, pp. 266–283. more
Zeng, Jing, Chung-hong Chan and King-Wa Fu (2017): How Social Media Construct “Truth” Around Crisis Events: Weibo's Rumor Management Strategies After the 2015 Tianjin Blasts. Policy & Internet, 9, issue 3, pp. 297–320. more

Conference Presentations

Chan, Chung-hong (2022): An R Package for Detecting Biases in Word Embeddings. [72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, May 26th to May 30th, 2022] more
Chan, Chung-hong (2022): Bayesian (Comparative) Journalism Studies. [72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, May 26th to May 30th, 2022] more
Müller, Philipp, Chung-hong Chan, Katharina Ludwig, Rainer Freudenthaler and Hartmut Wessler (2022): Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Coverage. [72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, May 26th to May 30th, 2022] more
Müller, Philipp, Katharina Ludwig, Chung-hong Chan, Rainer Freudenthaler and Hartmut Wessler (2022): Gruppenbezogener Rassismus im politischen Journalismus? Eine automatisierte Analyse expliziter und impliziter Stigmatisierungen ethnischer und religiöser Gruppen in der medialen Öffentlichkeit Deutschlands. [Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppen "Journalistik/Journalismusforschung" und "Kommunikation und Politik", Trier, September 29th to September 30th, 2022] more
Chan, Chung-hong, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Hartmut Wessler, Pilipp Müller and Katharina Ludwig (2021): Estimation of differential implicit media bias. [71st Annual International Communication Association Conference, (virtual conference), May 27th to May 31st, 2021] more
Chan, Chung-hong, Hartmut Wessler, Wouter van Atteveldt and Scott Althaus (2020): Are Right-Wing Attackers Also Terrorists? An Automated Content Analysis on How Perpetrator Identity Shapes Worldwide English-Language News Coverage of Islamist and Right-Wing Attacks. [70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, (virtual conference), May 20th to May 26th, 2020] more
Chan, Chung-hong, Jing Zeng, Hartmut Wessler, Marc Jungblut, Kasper Welbers, Joseph Bajjalieh, Wouter van Atteveldt and Scott Althaus (2020): Reproducible Extraction of Cross-Lingual Topics Using R. [70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, (virtual conference), May 20th to May 26th, 2020] more
Welbers, Kasper, Wouter van Atteveldt, Scott Althaus, Hartmut Wessler, Joseph Bajjalieh, Chung-hong Chan and Marc Jungblut (2020): Media Portrayal of Terrorist Events: Using Computational Text Analysis to Link News Items to the Global Terrorism Database. [70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, (virtual conference), May 20th to May 26th, 2020] more
Welbers, Kasper, Wouter van Atteveldt, Chung-hong Chan, Hartmut Wessler and Scott Althaus (2020): Suspect by Association: Untangling Semantic Relations Between Muslim Communities and Terrorism in the News. [70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, (virtual conference), May 20th to May 26th, 2020] more
Chan, Chung-hong, and Christiane Grill (2019): Understanding Supply and Demand in Communication Research: A Computational Approach. [69th Annual ICA Conference, Washington DC, May 24th to May 28th, 2019] more
Chan, Chung-hong, Joseph Bajjalieh, L. Auvil, Hartmut Wessler, Scott Althaus, K. Welbers and W. van Atteveldt (2019): Using ‘off-the-shelf’ sentiment dictionaries without revalidation: a p-hacking experiment. [5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Amsterdam, July 17th to July 20th, 2019] more
Yen, Chia-Yi, Mia Huai-Wen Chang and Chung-hong Chan (2019): A Computational Analysis of the Dynamics of R Style Based on 94 Million Lines of Code from All CRAN Packages in the Past 20 Years. [useR! 2019 conference, Toulouse, July 09th to July 12th, 2019] more
Chan, Chung-hong, Yuner Zhu, Cassius Siu-lun Chow and King-Wa Fu (2018): Building a dual-layer theory of cyberbalkanization: an analysis of Facebook pages and their audience during the 2014 Hong Kong Occupy Movement. [68th Annual ICA Conference, Prague, May 24th to May 28th, 2018] more
Chan, Chung-hong, Cassius Siu-lun Chow and King-Wa Fu (2018): Echoslamming: how incivility interacts with cyberbalkanization on the social media. [68th Annual ICA Conference, Prague, May 24th to May 28th, 2018] more
Grill, Christiane, Anne Schäfer, Charlotte Löb and Chung-hong Chan (2018): Citizens, Media and Politics in Challenging Times: Perspectives on the Deliberative Quality of Communication. [The Deliberative Quality of Communication Conference 2018, MZES, Mannheim, November 08th to November 09th, 2018] more
Wessler, Hartmut, and Chung-hong Chan (2018): Using Text Analytics Methods to Provide New Insights for Research on Contentious Processes. [Text Analytics Applications for Monitoring and Understanding Contentious Processes, Urbana, IL, January 31st to February 04th, 2018] more