Kaiping Chen
@kaipingchen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Communication, Computational Social Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stanford/ Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist www.kaipingchen.com
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/...
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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📣 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!
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:
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3mo ago#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research - https://cup.org/4sVtFLj - @dianamejordan.bsky.social, TRENT OLLERENSHAW & @atrexler.com #FirstView
🌟 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!
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine@nationalacademies.org · 6mo agoTwenty outstanding mid-career STEM professionals have joined our 2026-28 New Voices cohort. These emerging leaders will engage with the National Academies' work and continue building a robust network to address national and global challenges. Learn more: https://ow.ly/LYoG50Yasb7
🚨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!
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:
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick
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🚨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
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.
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
AEJMC ComSHER@comsher.bsky.social · 12mo ago📢 Don't miss our upcoming PFR Panel Session: "Visualize Science Communication for Impactful Journalism" 📢 Time: 11:30 am to 12:45 pm Location: Pacific C #AEJMC25
💫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. 👇
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...
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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✨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-...
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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✨Check our new paper👇
Niels G. Mede@nielsmede.bsky.social · last yr.New paper with #IsabelVillanueva and @kaipingchen.bsky.social ✨ We tested how online users discuss #plagiarism, data #fraud, #replication failure, and (unintentional) errors by scientists – based on 19,462 X posts by @retractionwatch.com and 22,936 user replies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✨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...
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
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...
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
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...
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.
“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. ...
Department of Life Sciences Communication launches renamed Science Communication PhD program
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✨Excited to get the best article award with my amazing coauthors. This is our article link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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@sangjung-kim.bsky.social · 2y agopoliticalcommunication.org/article/awar... Check out our interview with @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Isabel Villanueva in @polcomm.bsky.social report! Grateful to collaborate with this amazing team and deeply appreciate @curdknupfer.bsky.social for putting this interview together! #multimodal
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...
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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Submit your abstracts until January 15 🔆 Would be great to see you at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna 🤩
Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · 2y ago🎉 Happy New Year! Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna! ⏳Submission deadline: January 15 More here: shorturl.at/AmocX #css #commsky #polisky
🚨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....
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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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)
🥰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!
UW-Madison LSC@uw-lsc.bsky.social · 2y ago🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉 #OnWisconsin #scicomm
🥰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!
UW-Madison LSC@uw-lsc.bsky.social · 2y ago🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉 #OnWisconsin #scicomm
🚨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/...
✨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! 🥰
UW-Madison LSC@uw-lsc.bsky.social · 2y agoCongratulations to LSC Assistant Professor @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Professor Mike Xenos for receiving Vilas Faculty Investigator Awards for teaching and research excellence! 🎉 #OnWisconsin #scicomm Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2024/12/12/l...