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 communication studies, Python, data analysis.

My research interests lie in computational social science, political economy, intergroup hostility, 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.