Publications by topic
Digital Media and Computational Communication
"Open Governance of Cities: A New Paradigm for Understanding Urban Collaboration” with Albert Meijer and Miriam Lips in Frontiers In Sustainable Cities, 1, 3, 2019. PDF
"Barriers for Crowd’s Impact in Crowdsourced Policymaking: Civic Data Overload and Filter Hierarchy" with Tanja Aitamurto, in International Public Management Journal, 22:1, 99-126, 2019. PDF
“Concealing Corruption: How Chinese Officials Distort Upward Reporting of Online Grievances” with Jennifer Pan in American Political Science Review, 112(3), 602-620, 2018. PDF
“The Value of Crowdsourcing in Public Policymaking: Epistemic, Democratic and Economic Value” with Tanja Aitamurto in The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 5(1), 55-72, 2017. PDF
Public Deliberation on Complex Policy Issues
“Mobilizing the Mini-Publics: The Causal Impact of Deliberation on Civic Participation Using Panel Data” with Shelley Boulianne and David Kahane in Politics, 2020. PDF
“Participation Effectiveness of Citizen Participatory Budgeting: The Case of Yanjin County in Local China" with Muhua Lin in Chinese Public Administration Review, 11(1), 6-24, 2020. PDF
Data Science Methods
“Data Science and Political Economy: Application to Financial Regulatory Structure” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(7), 87-109, 2016. PDF
“Civic CrowdAnalytics: Making Sense of Crowdsourced Civic Input with Big Data Tools.” with Tanja Aitamurto, Jorge Galli, Luis Santana and Ahmed Cherif in Academic MindTrek Proceedings, 86-94, Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. PDF
“Data Science and Political Economy: Application to Financial Regulatory Structure” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in Big Data and Political Economy. Edited by Howard Rosenthal, New York: Russell Sage Press, 2015.
“Big Data and the Regulation of Financial Markets” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining Proceedings: 1118-1124. Editors: Jian Pei, Fabrizio Silvestri, Jie Tang. Paris, France, 2015.
Public Engagement with AI and Immersive Technologies
“The Impact of Augmented Reality on Art Engagement: Liking, Impression of Learning, and Distraction” with Tanja Aitamurto et al. in Chen JYC, Fragomeni G. (Eds.) in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, LNCS, vol. 10910, 1-19. Springer, Heidelberg, 2018. PDF
Other coverage
"How Digital Contributions from citizens can help U.S. Public Officials Govern Effectively", in Scholars Strategy Network, 2019.
“Conversation Structure and Quality of Political Discourse: Evidence from Reddit" with Lucas Alexander DiSanto Sanchez. PDF
"Open Governance of Cities: A New Paradigm for Understanding Urban Collaboration” with Albert Meijer and Miriam Lips in Frontiers In Sustainable Cities, 1, 3, 2019. PDF
"Barriers for Crowd’s Impact in Crowdsourced Policymaking: Civic Data Overload and Filter Hierarchy" with Tanja Aitamurto, in International Public Management Journal, 22:1, 99-126, 2019. PDF
“Concealing Corruption: How Chinese Officials Distort Upward Reporting of Online Grievances” with Jennifer Pan in American Political Science Review, 112(3), 602-620, 2018. PDF
“The Value of Crowdsourcing in Public Policymaking: Epistemic, Democratic and Economic Value” with Tanja Aitamurto in The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 5(1), 55-72, 2017. PDF
Public Deliberation on Complex Policy Issues
“Mobilizing the Mini-Publics: The Causal Impact of Deliberation on Civic Participation Using Panel Data” with Shelley Boulianne and David Kahane in Politics, 2020. PDF
“Participation Effectiveness of Citizen Participatory Budgeting: The Case of Yanjin County in Local China" with Muhua Lin in Chinese Public Administration Review, 11(1), 6-24, 2020. PDF
Data Science Methods
“Data Science and Political Economy: Application to Financial Regulatory Structure” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(7), 87-109, 2016. PDF
“Civic CrowdAnalytics: Making Sense of Crowdsourced Civic Input with Big Data Tools.” with Tanja Aitamurto, Jorge Galli, Luis Santana and Ahmed Cherif in Academic MindTrek Proceedings, 86-94, Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. PDF
“Data Science and Political Economy: Application to Financial Regulatory Structure” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in Big Data and Political Economy. Edited by Howard Rosenthal, New York: Russell Sage Press, 2015.
“Big Data and the Regulation of Financial Markets” with Sharyn O’Halloran, Sameer Maskey, Geraldine McAllister and David Park in Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining Proceedings: 1118-1124. Editors: Jian Pei, Fabrizio Silvestri, Jie Tang. Paris, France, 2015.
Public Engagement with AI and Immersive Technologies
“The Impact of Augmented Reality on Art Engagement: Liking, Impression of Learning, and Distraction” with Tanja Aitamurto et al. in Chen JYC, Fragomeni G. (Eds.) in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, LNCS, vol. 10910, 1-19. Springer, Heidelberg, 2018. PDF
Other coverage
"How Digital Contributions from citizens can help U.S. Public Officials Govern Effectively", in Scholars Strategy Network, 2019.
“Conversation Structure and Quality of Political Discourse: Evidence from Reddit" with Lucas Alexander DiSanto Sanchez. PDF
Under Review
Chen, Kaiping and Yanxi Zhou. "Science Communication on YouTube: A Critical Appraisal for Diversity"
Chen, Kaiping and Yepeng Jin. "Science Communication of GMO on a Chinese Social Media Platform: How Elite Discourse Shapes Public Discussion"
Chen, Kaiping and David Tomblin."Social Media as a New Tool to Complement Surveys for Understanding Public Opinions: An Empirical Demonstration of Public Opinions about Autonomous Vehicles" (R&R)
Chen, Kaiping. “Who Can Deliberate? Deliberative Reasoning in Ghana’s First Deliberative Poll on Food, Environment and Public Health"
Chang, Samuel and Kaiping Chen. “Authoritarian Deliberation? Examining Reasoning in Macau's Deliberative Poll” (R&R)
Chen, Kaiping, Luye Bao, Pauline Ho, Anqi Shao, Shiyu Yang, Christopher Wirz, Dominique Brossard, Markus Brauer, Lori Brown, "How Public Perceptions of Social Distancing Evolved over a Critical Time Period: Communication Lessons Learnt from the American State of Wisconsin"
Chen, Kaiping and Yepeng Jin. "Science Communication of GMO on a Chinese Social Media Platform: How Elite Discourse Shapes Public Discussion"
Chen, Kaiping and David Tomblin."Social Media as a New Tool to Complement Surveys for Understanding Public Opinions: An Empirical Demonstration of Public Opinions about Autonomous Vehicles" (R&R)
Chen, Kaiping. “Who Can Deliberate? Deliberative Reasoning in Ghana’s First Deliberative Poll on Food, Environment and Public Health"
Chang, Samuel and Kaiping Chen. “Authoritarian Deliberation? Examining Reasoning in Macau's Deliberative Poll” (R&R)
Chen, Kaiping, Luye Bao, Pauline Ho, Anqi Shao, Shiyu Yang, Christopher Wirz, Dominique Brossard, Markus Brauer, Lori Brown, "How Public Perceptions of Social Distancing Evolved over a Critical Time Period: Communication Lessons Learnt from the American State of Wisconsin"
Select Works in Progress
Chen, Kaiping, Manjusha Kancharla, Yang Shiyu "From Click to Engage on YouTube: Exploring the Impact of Channel and Content Factors on Science Videos"
Chen, Kaiping, Nathan Lee and William Marble. “Is Social Media an Effective Platform for Constituency Communication? A Conjoint Survey Experiment with Elected Officials in the United States” PDF
Chen, Kaiping, Haemin Jee and Jennifer Pan."The Role of Authoritarian Responsiveness in Competition over the Spoils of Patronage"
"Computational Communication of Civic Engagement on FCC: Bots Detection" with Daniel E. Ho.
Chen, Kaiping, Nathan Lee and William Marble. “Is Social Media an Effective Platform for Constituency Communication? A Conjoint Survey Experiment with Elected Officials in the United States” PDF
Chen, Kaiping, Haemin Jee and Jennifer Pan."The Role of Authoritarian Responsiveness in Competition over the Spoils of Patronage"
"Computational Communication of Civic Engagement on FCC: Bots Detection" with Daniel E. Ho.