Professor and Associate Dean
Director of new media communication program
Founding director of Computational and AI Communication Research Center
Journalism School at Fudan University
Contact
Address:
Journalism School at Fudan University
400 Guoding Rd., Shanghai, 200433, China
Phone: 86-21-65642815
Email: zhoubaohua@yeah.net
X: @terryzhou1979
https://xwxy.fudan.edu.cn/NewsEn/d6/0b/c43712a644619/page.htm
Research Interests
New Media Communication
Computational and AI Communication
Audience and Media Effects
Public Opinion
Current Research:
Generative AI in Journalism and Communication
LLMs and public opinion
Computational Social Science
Chinese audience in mobile Internet era
Books
Effect Studies: Evolution of Human Perception and Behavior (Fudan University Press, 2008)
Computational Public Opinion Studies in the Era of Big Data: Theories, Methods, and Cases (Fudan University Press, 2022)
Data Journalism and Information Visualization (Higher Education Press, 2023), etc.
Selected Recent Papers
Network matters: an examination of the direct and mediated influences of network size and heterogeneity on WeChat fatigue. Computers in Human Behavior, 2023, 139, 107489. (SSCI)
Can people hear others’ crying?: a computational analysis of help-seeking on Weibo during the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Information Processing & Management, 2022, 59(5), 102997. (SSCI & SCI)
Multimodal connectedness and communication patterns: A comparative study across Europe, the United States, and China. New Media & Society, 2021, 23(7), 1773-1797. (SSCI)
Two levels of digitalization and internet use across Europe, China, and the US. International Journal of Communication, 2020, 14, 22. (SSCI)
Fear of missing out, feeling of acceleration, and being permanently online: a survey study of university students’ use of mobile apps in China. Chinese Journal of Communication, 2019/12(1), 66-83. (SSCI)
New media use and subjective social status. Asian Journal of Communication, 2011/21(2), 133-149. (SSCI)
Expressive behaviors across discursive spaces and issue types. Asian Journal of Communication, 2011/21(2), 150-166. (SSCI)
Research Projects
Principal investigator for over ten projects including major projects funded by the National Social Science Fund, key research projects of the Ministry of Education, projects supported by the National Social Science Fund, and projects from the Ministry of Education, among others.
Honors and Awards
Recipient of several awards including selection for important national talent programs (Chang Jiang Scholar), national teaching achievement awards, outstanding research award in humanities and social sciences by the Ministry of Education, first prize of outstanding research awards in philosophy and social sciences in Shanghai, Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award, National outstanding young teacher award from the Yingdong Education Foundation, Outstanding Youth Award from the National Association of Journalism and Communication, national excellent paper award in journalism and communication, and more.
