Zhenfeng Zhou

I am a third-year graduate student at the School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University, under the supervision of Professor Cheng-Jun Wang. I am also a member of the Computational Communication Collaboratory, Nanjing University. I completed my undergraduate studies at Lanzhou University, where I took courses in journalism and communication studies, Python, data analysis.

My research interests lie in computational social science, particularly computational communication, narrative analysis of text, hate speech, textual and multimodal analysis, causal inference. Currently, I use causal inference and natural language processing methods to analyze hate narratives and negative sentiments toward specific groups using large-scale datasets from news coverage, books, and online platforms. In addition, I have a background in media psychology and am familiar with survey research and psychometric scale analysis.