Peer-reviewed publications by topic
Science Communication, (Social) Media, and Public Deliberation
Chen, K., Jeon, J., & Zhou, Y. (2021). A critical appraisal of diversity in digital knowledge production: Segregated inclusion on YouTube. New Media & Society. Ungated, Media Coverage, OnlineFirst.
Chen, K., & Tomblin, D. (2021). Using data from Reddit, Public Deliberation, and Surveys to measure public opinion about autonomous vehicles. Public Opinion Quarterly. OnlineFirst.
Freiling, I., Krause, N.M., Scheufele, D.A. & Chen, K. (2021). The science of open (communication) science: Toward an evidence-driven understanding of quality criteria in communication research. Journal of Communication. OnlineFirst.
Chen, K. (2021). How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s Deliberative Poll on agriculture and the environment. Public Understanding of Science, 30(2), 179-195. PDF preprint, video, supplementary
Burgess, M., & Chen, K. (2021). Narratives in public deliberation: Empowering gene-editing debate with storytelling (forthcoming). The Hastings Center Report.
Chen, K., & Shaw, B. (2021). Public communication of soil conservation practice: A large-scale content analysis of Wisconsin's agricultural trade publications (forthcoming). Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.
Wirz, C.D., Shao, A., Bao, L., Monroe, H., Howell, E., & Chen, K. (2021). Media systems and attention cycles: Trends and topics in news coverage of COVID-19 in the U.S. and China (forthcoming). Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Molder, A.L., Lakind, A., Clemmons, Z.E., & Chen, K. (2021). Framing the global youth climate movement: A qualitative content analysis of Greta Thunberg's moral, hopeful and motivational framing on Instagram (forthcoming). The International Journal of Press/Politics.
Chen, K., Chen, A., Zhang, J., Meng, J., & Shen, C. (2020). Conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origin on Chinese social media: How it started and who is to blame. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. PDF, op-ed in Conversation
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, 19(5). PDF, News Coverage
Lin, M., & Chen, K. (2020). Participation effectiveness of citizen participatory budgeting: The case of Yanjin county in China. Chinese Public Administration Review, 11(1), 6-24. PDF
Boulianne, S., Chen, K., & Kahane, D. (2020). Mobilizing mini-publics: The causal impact of deliberation on civic engagement using panel data. Politics, 40(4), 460-476. PDF
Computational Communication and Digital Crowdsourcing
Chen, K., Kim, S.J., Gao, Q., & Raschka, S. (2021). Visual framing of science conspiracy videos: Integrating machine learning with communication theories to study the use of color and brightness (accepted). Computational Communication Research. Preprint
Chen, K., Duan, Z, & Yang, S. (2021). Twitter as research data: Tools, costs, skillsets and lessons learnt. Politics and the Life Sciences. OnlineFirst. Chinese Translated Version
Hou, X., Gao, S., Li, Q., Kang, Y., Chen, N., Chen, K., Rao, J., Ellenberg, J., & Patz, J. (2021). Intra-county modeling of COVID-19 infection with human mobility: Assessing spatial heterogeneity with business traffic, age and race. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 118(24). NSF Award Description, News Coverage.
Ho, P., Chen, K., Shao, A., Bao, L., Ai, A., Tarfa, A., Brauer, K., Brossard, D., & Brown, L.D. (2021). A mixed methods study of public perception about social distancing: Integrating qualitative and computational analyses for text data. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 15(3), 374-397. [co-first author]
Hiaeshutter-Rice, D., Chinn, S., & Chen, K. (2021). Platform effects on alternative influencer content: Understanding how features and affordances shape misinformation online. Frontiers in Political Science, May 31st, 2021.
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 Polity, 25(3), 243-274. 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, Translated Chinese Version
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
Pan, J., & Chen, K. (2018). Concealing corruption: How Chinese officials distort upward reporting of online grievances. American Political Science Review, 112(3), 602-620. [co-first author] 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
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, 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, 1118-1124.
Public Engagement with AI and Immersive Technologies (Human-Computer Interaction)
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, 153-171. Springer, Cham. PDF
Chen, K., Jeon, J., & Zhou, Y. (2021). A critical appraisal of diversity in digital knowledge production: Segregated inclusion on YouTube. New Media & Society. Ungated, Media Coverage, OnlineFirst.
Chen, K., & Tomblin, D. (2021). Using data from Reddit, Public Deliberation, and Surveys to measure public opinion about autonomous vehicles. Public Opinion Quarterly. OnlineFirst.
Freiling, I., Krause, N.M., Scheufele, D.A. & Chen, K. (2021). The science of open (communication) science: Toward an evidence-driven understanding of quality criteria in communication research. Journal of Communication. OnlineFirst.
Chen, K. (2021). How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s Deliberative Poll on agriculture and the environment. Public Understanding of Science, 30(2), 179-195. PDF preprint, video, supplementary
Burgess, M., & Chen, K. (2021). Narratives in public deliberation: Empowering gene-editing debate with storytelling (forthcoming). The Hastings Center Report.
Chen, K., & Shaw, B. (2021). Public communication of soil conservation practice: A large-scale content analysis of Wisconsin's agricultural trade publications (forthcoming). Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.
Wirz, C.D., Shao, A., Bao, L., Monroe, H., Howell, E., & Chen, K. (2021). Media systems and attention cycles: Trends and topics in news coverage of COVID-19 in the U.S. and China (forthcoming). Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Molder, A.L., Lakind, A., Clemmons, Z.E., & Chen, K. (2021). Framing the global youth climate movement: A qualitative content analysis of Greta Thunberg's moral, hopeful and motivational framing on Instagram (forthcoming). The International Journal of Press/Politics.
Chen, K., Chen, A., Zhang, J., Meng, J., & Shen, C. (2020). Conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origin on Chinese social media: How it started and who is to blame. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. PDF, op-ed in Conversation
- Covered by Nieman Journalism Lab, Channel News Asia, Snopes, Fast Company
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, 19(5). PDF, News Coverage
Lin, M., & Chen, K. (2020). Participation effectiveness of citizen participatory budgeting: The case of Yanjin county in China. Chinese Public Administration Review, 11(1), 6-24. PDF
Boulianne, S., Chen, K., & Kahane, D. (2020). Mobilizing mini-publics: The causal impact of deliberation on civic engagement using panel data. Politics, 40(4), 460-476. PDF
Computational Communication and Digital Crowdsourcing
Chen, K., Kim, S.J., Gao, Q., & Raschka, S. (2021). Visual framing of science conspiracy videos: Integrating machine learning with communication theories to study the use of color and brightness (accepted). Computational Communication Research. Preprint
Chen, K., Duan, Z, & Yang, S. (2021). Twitter as research data: Tools, costs, skillsets and lessons learnt. Politics and the Life Sciences. OnlineFirst. Chinese Translated Version
Hou, X., Gao, S., Li, Q., Kang, Y., Chen, N., Chen, K., Rao, J., Ellenberg, J., & Patz, J. (2021). Intra-county modeling of COVID-19 infection with human mobility: Assessing spatial heterogeneity with business traffic, age and race. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 118(24). NSF Award Description, News Coverage.
Ho, P., Chen, K., Shao, A., Bao, L., Ai, A., Tarfa, A., Brauer, K., Brossard, D., & Brown, L.D. (2021). A mixed methods study of public perception about social distancing: Integrating qualitative and computational analyses for text data. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 15(3), 374-397. [co-first author]
Hiaeshutter-Rice, D., Chinn, S., & Chen, K. (2021). Platform effects on alternative influencer content: Understanding how features and affordances shape misinformation online. Frontiers in Political Science, May 31st, 2021.
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 Polity, 25(3), 243-274. 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, Translated Chinese Version
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
Pan, J., & Chen, K. (2018). Concealing corruption: How Chinese officials distort upward reporting of online grievances. American Political Science Review, 112(3), 602-620. [co-first author] 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
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, 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, 1118-1124.
Public Engagement with AI and Immersive Technologies (Human-Computer Interaction)
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, 153-171. Springer, Cham. PDF
Under Review
Chen, K., Jin., Y., & Shao, A. (2021). Science factionalism: How group identity language affects public engagement with controversial science on a popular digital Q&A platform in China (revised and resubmitted). Social Media + Society.
Chang, S., & Chen, K. (2021). Authoritarian deliberation? Examining deliberative reasoning in Macau’s Deliberative Poll (revise and resubmit). Journal of Deliberative Democracy.
Wirz, C.D., Cate, A., Brauer, M., Brossard, D., Brown, L.D., Chen, K., Ho, P., Luter, D.G., Madden, H., Schoenborn, S., Shaw, B., Sprinkel, C., Stanley, D., & Sumi, G. (2021). Science Communication during COVID-19: When theory meets best practices and best practices meet reality (revise and resubmit). Journal of Science Communication.
Chen, H., Eckart, C., Mallari, P., Molder, A., Chen, K. & Yang, D. (2021). Modeling the discourse and issue evolution of the climate change movement on social media (revise and resubmit). ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2022).
Chen, K., & Jin, Y. (2021). How issue entrepreneurs shape public discourse of controversial science on social media: A case study of GMO discussion on a popular Chinese Q&A platform (under review). talk link
Chen, K., & Kim, S. (2021). How conspiracy and debunking videos use emotions to engage publics on YouTube (under review).
Chen, K., Jee, H., & Pan, J. (2021). Authoritarian responsiveness and competition over the spoils of patronage (under review).
Chen, K., Molder, A., Boulianne, S., Eckart, C., Mallari, P., & Yang, D. (2021). How youth activists and news media frame climate change and strike: Evidence from analyzing Twitter and Newspaper Discourse (under review).
Chen, K., Cate, A., & Cheren, H. (2021). Communicating agriculture AI technology: Lessons from empirical examination into American farmers' trust, risk perception, and the likelihood of adopting artificial intelligence in food systems (under review).
Chen, A., Lu, Y., Chen, K., & Ng, A. (2021). Pandemic nationalism: How exposure to government social media affects people's belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories in China (under review).
Chang, S., & Chen, K. (2021). Authoritarian deliberation? Examining deliberative reasoning in Macau’s Deliberative Poll (revise and resubmit). Journal of Deliberative Democracy.
Wirz, C.D., Cate, A., Brauer, M., Brossard, D., Brown, L.D., Chen, K., Ho, P., Luter, D.G., Madden, H., Schoenborn, S., Shaw, B., Sprinkel, C., Stanley, D., & Sumi, G. (2021). Science Communication during COVID-19: When theory meets best practices and best practices meet reality (revise and resubmit). Journal of Science Communication.
Chen, H., Eckart, C., Mallari, P., Molder, A., Chen, K. & Yang, D. (2021). Modeling the discourse and issue evolution of the climate change movement on social media (revise and resubmit). ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2022).
Chen, K., & Jin, Y. (2021). How issue entrepreneurs shape public discourse of controversial science on social media: A case study of GMO discussion on a popular Chinese Q&A platform (under review). talk link
Chen, K., & Kim, S. (2021). How conspiracy and debunking videos use emotions to engage publics on YouTube (under review).
Chen, K., Jee, H., & Pan, J. (2021). Authoritarian responsiveness and competition over the spoils of patronage (under review).
Chen, K., Molder, A., Boulianne, S., Eckart, C., Mallari, P., & Yang, D. (2021). How youth activists and news media frame climate change and strike: Evidence from analyzing Twitter and Newspaper Discourse (under review).
Chen, K., Cate, A., & Cheren, H. (2021). Communicating agriculture AI technology: Lessons from empirical examination into American farmers' trust, risk perception, and the likelihood of adopting artificial intelligence in food systems (under review).
Chen, A., Lu, Y., Chen, K., & Ng, A. (2021). Pandemic nationalism: How exposure to government social media affects people's belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories in China (under review).
Working Papers
Chen, K., Shao, A., & Jin, Y. (2021). I am better than you: How nationalism strengthens science misperception. Preprint, talk link
Chen, K., Newman, T., & Zhou, Y. (2021). Uncovering the role of digital trace data on YouTube: A case study on climate change videos from 2015-2019.
Chen, K., & Sheng, Z. (2021). Making science intersectional through identity performance: Minoritized women as STEM content creators on social media.
Chen, K., Yang, S., & Kancharla, M. (2021). From click to engage on YouTube: Exploring the impact of channel and content factors on science videos.
Chen, K., Lee, N., & Marble, W. (2021). Is social media an effective platform for constituency communication? A conjoint survey experiment with elected officials in the United States. PDF
Chen, K, Wirz, C.D., & Gao, S. (2021). Social media as a tool for engagement and responsible innovation of digital contact tracing apps during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chen, K., Newman, T., & Zhou, Y. (2021). Uncovering the role of digital trace data on YouTube: A case study on climate change videos from 2015-2019.
Chen, K., & Sheng, Z. (2021). Making science intersectional through identity performance: Minoritized women as STEM content creators on social media.
Chen, K., Yang, S., & Kancharla, M. (2021). From click to engage on YouTube: Exploring the impact of channel and content factors on science videos.
Chen, K., Lee, N., & Marble, W. (2021). Is social media an effective platform for constituency communication? A conjoint survey experiment with elected officials in the United States. PDF
Chen, K, Wirz, C.D., & Gao, S. (2021). Social media as a tool for engagement and responsible innovation of digital contact tracing apps during the COVID-19 pandemic.