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 Python, data visualization, communication studies.

My research interests lie in computational social science, particularly hate speech, textual and multimodal analysis, causal inference, and AI and machine learning applications. Currently, I use causal inference and natural language processing methods to analyze hate narratives and negative sentiments toward specific groups, drawing on large-scale datasets from historical newspapers, books, and online platforms. In addition, I have a background in media psychology and am familiar with survey research and scale analysis.