Publications by topic
Digital Media and Computational Communication
Meijer, A.J., …Chen, K.,... (2020). The COVID-19-Crisis and the information polity: An overview of responses and discussions in twenty-one countries from six continents. Information Policy. PDF
Meijer, A. J., Lips, M., & Chen, K. (2019). Open governance of cities: A new paradigm for understanding urban collaboration. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 1, 3. PDF
Chen, K., & Aitamurto, T. (2019). Barriers for crowd’s impact in crowdsourced policymaking: Civic data overload and filter hierarchy. International Public Management Journal, 22(1), 99-126. PDF
Chen, K. (2019). How digital contributions from citizens can help U.S. public officials govern effectively. Scholars Strategy Network. PDF
Pan, J., & Chen, K. (2018). Concealing corruption: How Chinese officials distort upward reporting of online grievances. The American Political Science Review, 112(3), 602-620. PDF
Aitamurto, T., & Chen, K. (2017). The value of crowdsourcing in public policymaking: epistemic, democratic and economic value. The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 5(1), 55-72. PDF
Science Communication and Public Deliberation
Chen, K. (2020). How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s Deliberative Poll on agriculture and environment (conditional acceptance, Public Understanding of Science).
Chen, K., Bao, L., Shao, A., Ho, P., Yang, S., Wirz, C.D., Brossard, D., Brauer, M., & Brown, L.D. (2020). How public perceptions of social distancing evolved over a critical time period: Communication lessons learnt from the American State of Wisconsin. Journal of Science Communication (accepted).
Lin, M., & Chen, K. (2020). Participation effectiveness of citizen participatory budgeting: The case of Yanjin county in China. Participatory Budgeting: Direct Democracy in Action, 6. PDF
Boulianne, S., Chen, K., & Kahane, D. (2020). Mobilizing mini-publics: The causal impact of deliberation on civic engagement using panel data. Politics. PDF
Data Science Methods
Chen, K., & Sanchez, L.A. “Conversation Structure and Quality of Political Discourse: Evidence from Reddit". PDF
O’Halloran, S., Maskey, S., McAllister, G., Park, D. K., & Chen, K. (2016). Data science and political economy: application to financial regulatory structure. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(7), 87-109. PDF
Aitamurto, T., Chen, K., Cherif, A., Galli, J. S., & Santana, L. (2016, October). Civic CrowdAnalytics: Making sense of crowdsourced civic input with big data tools. In Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (pp. 86-94). PDF
O'Halloran, S., Maskey, S., McAllister, G., Park, D. K., & Chen, K. (2015, August). Big data and the regulation of financial markets. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining(pp. 1118-1124).
Public Engagement with AI and Immersive Technologies
Aitamurto, T., Boin, J. B., Chen, K., Cherif, A., & Shridhar, S. (2018, July). The impact of augmented reality on art engagement: Liking, impression of learning, and distraction. In International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality (pp. 153-171). Springer, Cham. PDF
Meijer, A.J., …Chen, K.,... (2020). The COVID-19-Crisis and the information polity: An overview of responses and discussions in twenty-one countries from six continents. Information Policy. PDF
Meijer, A. J., Lips, M., & Chen, K. (2019). Open governance of cities: A new paradigm for understanding urban collaboration. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 1, 3. PDF
Chen, K., & Aitamurto, T. (2019). Barriers for crowd’s impact in crowdsourced policymaking: Civic data overload and filter hierarchy. International Public Management Journal, 22(1), 99-126. PDF
Chen, K. (2019). How digital contributions from citizens can help U.S. public officials govern effectively. Scholars Strategy Network. PDF
Pan, J., & Chen, K. (2018). Concealing corruption: How Chinese officials distort upward reporting of online grievances. The American Political Science Review, 112(3), 602-620. PDF
Aitamurto, T., & Chen, K. (2017). The value of crowdsourcing in public policymaking: epistemic, democratic and economic value. The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 5(1), 55-72. PDF
Science Communication and Public Deliberation
Chen, K. (2020). How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s Deliberative Poll on agriculture and environment (conditional acceptance, Public Understanding of Science).
Chen, K., Bao, L., Shao, A., Ho, P., Yang, S., Wirz, C.D., Brossard, D., Brauer, M., & Brown, L.D. (2020). How public perceptions of social distancing evolved over a critical time period: Communication lessons learnt from the American State of Wisconsin. Journal of Science Communication (accepted).
Lin, M., & Chen, K. (2020). Participation effectiveness of citizen participatory budgeting: The case of Yanjin county in China. Participatory Budgeting: Direct Democracy in Action, 6. PDF
Boulianne, S., Chen, K., & Kahane, D. (2020). Mobilizing mini-publics: The causal impact of deliberation on civic engagement using panel data. Politics. PDF
Data Science Methods
Chen, K., & Sanchez, L.A. “Conversation Structure and Quality of Political Discourse: Evidence from Reddit". PDF
O’Halloran, S., Maskey, S., McAllister, G., Park, D. K., & Chen, K. (2016). Data science and political economy: application to financial regulatory structure. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(7), 87-109. PDF
Aitamurto, T., Chen, K., Cherif, A., Galli, J. S., & Santana, L. (2016, October). Civic CrowdAnalytics: Making sense of crowdsourced civic input with big data tools. In Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (pp. 86-94). PDF
O'Halloran, S., Maskey, S., McAllister, G., Park, D. K., & Chen, K. (2015, August). Big data and the regulation of financial markets. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining(pp. 1118-1124).
Public Engagement with AI and Immersive Technologies
Aitamurto, T., Boin, J. B., Chen, K., Cherif, A., & Shridhar, S. (2018, July). The impact of augmented reality on art engagement: Liking, impression of learning, and distraction. In International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality (pp. 153-171). Springer, Cham. PDF
Under Review
Chen, K., & Tomblin, D. (2020). Social media as a new tool to complement surveys for understanding public opinions: An empirical demonstration of public opinions about autonomous vehicles (revised and resubmitted).
Chang, S., & Chen, K. (2020). Authoritarian deliberation? Examining deliberative reasoning in Macau’s Deliberative Poll (revise and resubmit).
Chen, K., Chen, A., Zhang, J., Meng, J., & Shen, C. (2020). Conspiracy narratives and debunking about COVID-19 origination on Chinese social media: How it started and who is to blame (revise and resubmit).
Chen, K., Yang, S., & Kancharla, M. (2020). From click to engage on YouTube: Exploring the impact of channel and content factors on science videos (under review).
Ho, P., Chen, K., Shao, A., Bao, L., Ai, A., Tarfa, A., Brauer, K., Brossard, D., & Brown, L.D. (2020). A mixed-method study of public perception on social distancing: Integrating qualitative and computational analyses for large-scale text data (under review).
Chang, S., & Chen, K. (2020). Authoritarian deliberation? Examining deliberative reasoning in Macau’s Deliberative Poll (revise and resubmit).
Chen, K., Chen, A., Zhang, J., Meng, J., & Shen, C. (2020). Conspiracy narratives and debunking about COVID-19 origination on Chinese social media: How it started and who is to blame (revise and resubmit).
Chen, K., Yang, S., & Kancharla, M. (2020). From click to engage on YouTube: Exploring the impact of channel and content factors on science videos (under review).
Ho, P., Chen, K., Shao, A., Bao, L., Ai, A., Tarfa, A., Brauer, K., Brossard, D., & Brown, L.D. (2020). A mixed-method study of public perception on social distancing: Integrating qualitative and computational analyses for large-scale text data (under review).
Select Works in Progress
Chen, K., Jeon, J., & Zhou, Y. (2020). A critical appraisal of diversity in digital knowledge production: A segregated inclusion of knowledge producers on YouTube.
Chen, K., & Jin, Y. (2020). How issue entrepreneurs shape public discourse on controversial science: A case study of GMO discussion on a Chinese social media platform.
Chen, K., Yang, S., & Duan, Z. (2020). Twitter as research data.
Freiling, I., Chen, K., Krause, N., Scheufele, D.A. (2020). Open communication science: Toward a more nuanced understanding of replicability and reproducibility in our discipline (extended abstract accepted).
Chen, K., Kim, S.J., & Raschka, S. (2020). Visual framing of science conspiracy videos (extended abstract accepted).
Chen, K., Lee, N., & Marble, W. (2020). Is social media an effective platform for constituency communication? A conjoint survey experiment with elected officials in the United States. PDF
Chen, K., Jee, H., & Pan, J. (2020). Authoritarian responsiveness and competition over the spoils of patronage.
Wirz, C.D., Shao, A., Bao, L., Monroe, H., Howell, E., & Chen, K. (2020). Media systems and attention cycles: Trends and topics in news coverage of COVID-19 in the U.S. and China.
Chen, K., & Jin, Y. (2020). How issue entrepreneurs shape public discourse on controversial science: A case study of GMO discussion on a Chinese social media platform.
Chen, K., Yang, S., & Duan, Z. (2020). Twitter as research data.
Freiling, I., Chen, K., Krause, N., Scheufele, D.A. (2020). Open communication science: Toward a more nuanced understanding of replicability and reproducibility in our discipline (extended abstract accepted).
Chen, K., Kim, S.J., & Raschka, S. (2020). Visual framing of science conspiracy videos (extended abstract accepted).
Chen, K., Lee, N., & Marble, W. (2020). Is social media an effective platform for constituency communication? A conjoint survey experiment with elected officials in the United States. PDF
Chen, K., Jee, H., & Pan, J. (2020). Authoritarian responsiveness and competition over the spoils of patronage.
Wirz, C.D., Shao, A., Bao, L., Monroe, H., Howell, E., & Chen, K. (2020). Media systems and attention cycles: Trends and topics in news coverage of COVID-19 in the U.S. and China.