Teaching

I teach courses on emerging media, interactivity, and communication research methods — training students to think critically about digital media and to study it rigorously.

Courses

EM757 User-Producers 2.0: Developing Interactivity — Students design and build interactive media projects, exploring how users become producers.

CM321 Communication Research Methods — Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods in communication.

EM847 Time, Place & Social Data: Advanced Issues in Large Scale Analysis — Doctoral seminar on large-scale spatiotemporal data analysis in communication research.

EM747 Trending Insights: Social Data Analysis and Visualization — Students analyze and visualize social data to surface trending insights.

EM777 Masters Collaboratory Project — Master's research collaboratory guiding students through research design and methods.

EM797 Connecting Humans: Networks, History and Social Media — How human connection works through networks and social media, in historical perspective.

Mentoring

I mentor PhD students in emerging media studies.

  • Caitlyn Chen (2025– )
  • Benita Dederichs (2022– )
  • Sejin Paik (PhD 2024, co-advisor with Lei Guo)
  • Alexis Shore (PhD 2024, interim advisor in 2023)

Recognition

  • Faculty-in-Residence, Boston University (2023–present), working closely with undergraduates in residence.
  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) faculty mentor, Summer 2023 — Yangshuo Teng, project on social media migration and platform governance.
  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) faculty mentor, Fall 2022 — Chengze Zheng, project on the cultural discount of social media platforms' policy changes at a global scale.
  • 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.