Ryan Yang Wang

Ryan Y. Wang is a Ph. D. student majoring in Mass Communications and minoring in Social Data Analytics. His main research interests are two-folded: (1) how digital infrastructure influences political polarization within the U.S. context; (2) how social media facilitates the formation and dissemination of public opinion, and how digital trace data could be utilized to better understand today’s political behavior. Additionally, I am interested in incorporating computational methods in my own research, including (geo)spatial analysis, natural language processing, network analysis, and agent-based modeling. In his spare time, he is a hip-hop beat-maker and producer.

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