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2026 — Policy impact: Sage Policy Profiles records 6 citations across 6 policy documents, including Missing Voices cited in Australia's Chief Scientist and National Science and Technology Council reports on misinformation resilience (1 Apr 2026).
2025 — Editorial board: Joined the editorial board of Digital Journalism as one of 10 incoming members in the 2025 renewal.
2025 — Awards: Best Faculty Paper, AEJMC Mass Communication and Society Division; Top Faculty Paper, ICA Communication Law and Policy Division.
2025 — New articles: Platform governance in the generative AI era; climate moral values on X and Weibo; digital nationalistic activism, U.S. vs China; platform values on X and Weibo 2009-2024; protecting children of the TikTok era.
2024 — Awards: Best Faculty Paper (1st), AEJMC International Communication Division; Top Poster (1st), ICA Environmental Communication Division.
2024 — Invited talks: Science Foo Camp, University of Cambridge, 26-28 July 2024 — invited participation. Also SICSS National University of Singapore keynote on computational approaches to platform governance; invited talks at Peking University HSBC Business School, CUHK, and Fudan University.
2024 — Media: Boston Globe, 7 June 2024 — BU survey says people want social networks, not government, to remove fake news (BU COM Media and Technology Survey: 63% wanted platforms to take down false information, 57% wanted limited access, 28% favored government regulation, 46% opposed it).
2024 — ICA preconference co-organizer: Reimagining Digital Activism, Gold Coast, 20 June 2024.
2023 — Awards: Top Faculty Paper (2nd), AEJMC Political Communication Division; Top Faculty Paper, ICA Public Relations Division.
2023 — Colloquium: Decoding the Dynamics of Media Platforms: Two Computational Approaches, BU CRC, 27 Feb 2023.
2021 — Awards and appointment: Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award, NCA; Top Faculty Paper, Chinese Communication Association, ICA; East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship (announced Sep 2021).