Pleased to share a new working paper on propaganda in Chinese newspapers, co-authored by myself, Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts (Molly Roberts), and Brandon Stewart (@b_m_stewart). Comments, questions, and suggestions welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It is exciting to see the published version! Very grateful for the chance to collabrate with my awesome coauthors and work at 21st Century China. Hopefully this study can draw more people's attention to the situation of academics under the increasing tension between two superpowers

Come work with us! We have a two-year postdoc position available in our project on content moderation with Molly Roberts and Yannis Theocharis. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/149….

Want to see how members of Congress in both chambers and parties have tweeted about China? Young Yang in China Data Lab 21st Century China has created an awesome portal for folks to play around. It's open to everyone chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/tweets/

I'm excited to share a new paper with Jennifer Pan and Molly Roberts published in Science Advances: “Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts”: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… (open access) 1/9

How are members of Congress talking about China? Our China Data Lab 21st Century China team led by Molly Roberts, Lei Guang has gathered the data and our awesome data scientist Young Yang put it in a user friendly format for you all to explore chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/tweets/ have fun w it!

To what degree are news websites in autocracies resilient to online censorship? I explore this question in Egypt. A short 🧵 on this study that is now #FirstView and #OpenAccess in the British Journal of Political Science cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New paper with Ruth Appel & Jennifer Pan looking at the sources of partisan disagreement over content moderation. Reps and Dems disagree over not just facts, but the principle of moderation. We find little evidence of content moderation for party promotion. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

CDL ran a survey in China about COVID Zero ~2 weeks before the protests. The findings -- 1. a majority of people preferred changes to COVID Zero 2. people who had experienced lockdown opposed COVID Zero more -- shed some light on current policy chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/viz-blog/how-u…

In The Wire China I call out pitfalls of zero-sum competition for climate action. We need a new model of US-China climate cooperation--facilitating enlightened competition to minimize the material harm of bilateral tensions on emissions reduction efforts. thewirechina.com/2022/11/20/ref…

Excited to post this opportunity to work with our international team, including Nils B. Weidmann and Yannis Theocharis on social media and content moderation. Postdoctoral position at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6fc…

So incredibly excited to be able to work with Yannis Theocharis and Nils B. Weidmann on this project, and very grateful to Max Planck Society and Humboldt-Stiftung for their support!

Just released my interview with Molly Roberts about her book, 'Censored: Distraction and Diversion inside China's Great Firewall.' Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

Listen here!
aimingforthemoon.com/episodes/china…

Our Chinese elite data portal has been updated and now include provincial standing committee and Central Committee elites from the 15th PC to the 19th PC. Also, their jobs at the time of congress has been included so you can visualize thousands of subsets chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/elites/

Thank you, ChinaFile! For the great translation and careful editing. My pleasure to review the ups and downs of Chinese NGOs in the past three decades

I wrote a tidyverse R companion to the (awesome) Text as Data book by Justin Grimmer, Brandon Stewart, and Molly Roberts. Includes code for webscraping, OCR, word embeddings, topic models, and more -- you can find it all here joeornstein.github.io/text-as-data/.

Does #Congress come together on China? In the last post of a 4-part series, researchers from @ChinaDataLab1, 21st Century China, GPS UC San Diego, found a remarkable convergence between Democrats’ and Republicans’ negative sentiments toward #China .
Read here: chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/viz-blog/does-…

How do Chinese citizens view Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine ? Harris Doshay, Asst. Director 21st Century China and Molly Roberts, co-director @ChinaDataLab1, GPS UC San Diego share some of the lab’s latest survey work.
Read here: ow.ly/rt8h50JqMaI