Kaiping Chen
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Expert on science and environment communication, social media research, civic engagement, and data science.
Assistant Professor/Life Sciences Communication College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — Home and cell phones available upon request kchen67@wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @Kaiping_Chen
Topics
- How can we effectively engage communities in discussing about science, technology and environment issues?
- How do misinformation spread on social media and what are the strategies to inoculate people against misinformation?
- How can we use technology to build digital crowdsourcing platforms to connect citizens with policymakers?
- How digital media and technologies affect politicians' accountability to public well-being?
- How can social scientists use computational methods to study human behavior on social media?
Achievements
- My current works are supported by three NSF grants to study science communication on social media and deliberative designs
- My works have been published in flagship journals across the disciplines of political science, communication, and general science.
- Kaiping is also a civic engagement practitioner and helped various local governments in US and China implement and analyze innovative civic engagement practices.