PhD student @USCAnnenberg

Zituo WANG 王子托

I research digital technology, social justice, and disadvantaged communities within both health and political contexts. I am interested in the underlying mechanisms that produce public opinion and the social networks that mobilize collective expression, particularly how these dynamics are shaped by politics and artificial intelligence. By employing computational methods like natural language processing and computer vision, I want to address existing challenges in multilingual, multimodal, and multiplatform studies.

Zituo’s

Recent research

To understand social reality from marginalized perspectives, interrogate institutional norms and practices that perpetuate oppression, and deconstruct widely accepted or neutral systems in the larger society (Lather, 1991).

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To live with it or not?

This study conducted a nationwide survey (N = 665) to examine the cultivation effect of state media on the audience’s support for the zero-COVID policy. Results show that the more state media people were exposed to on social media, the more they supported the zero-COVID policy. Both fear of the virus and trust in the government mediated the effect.

Justice for Birdy