Com.Comm. Lab

Computational Communication Lab 


「計算傳播研究室」是一個致力於運用資料科學方法來探究社會科學議題的研究團隊。團隊主持人擁有交大資訊工程博士學位，多年來一直運用計算機方法，例如社會網絡分析、社會模擬和自然語言處理等技術，來研究各種社會科學與傳播議題。我們的研究範疇包括但不限於輿情分析、流行病傳播、訊息傳播、數位外交、線上社群、意識形態極化以及刻板印象等議題。此外，我們也關注新聞傳播領域的議題，例如假訊息的認知、影響力以及新聞標題的研究。
The Computational Communication Research Lab is a research team dedicated to exploring social science issues through the application of data science methods. The lab's principal investigator holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University and has been utilizing computer-based techniques such as social network analysis, social simulation, and natural language processing to study various topics in social science and communication. Our research scope includes but is not limited to opinion analysis, epidemic propagation, information dissemination, digital diplomacy, online communities, ideological polarization, and stereotypes. Additionally, we also focus on issues in the field of news communication, such as the perception and impact of fake news, as well as research on news headlines.

Recruiting 


近期我們正招募對Youtube、Twitter社群輿論分析有興趣的大學生與碩士生，無論是擔任兼任助理、撰寫大學生研究計畫、或碩士論文。我們每週定期聚會討論相關領域發展，以及實務技能。若有興趣，請直接寄信給謝吉隆老師（Updated 2023/01/18）。 

Interested researches


  • Platforms: Twitter and Youtube
  • Computational methods on (political) communication/social science, e.g., ideology polarization, netizen behaviors, election and advertisement, user interaction networks.
  • Also news headlines and media representation
  • Human dynamic": Mobility and Time & Society, e.g., lifelogging, and quantified self
學生獲獎紀錄（多媒體作品）
  • 第六屆全球華文永續融媒體組學生組首獎-
  • 第六屆全球華文永續融媒體組學生組優等
  • 第六屆全球華文永續融媒體組學生組社會價值獎
  • 第五屆全球華文永續融媒體組學生組優等
  • 第四屆全球華文永續融媒體組學生組首獎
法律黑客松獲獎紀錄
This is our third time participating in the legal tech hackathon. We won third place last year and second place this year.  We co-worked with the best computational Linguistics team (Prof. Shu-Kai's team) in Taiwan and really learned a lot from them. 

2021法律黑客松銀牌獎

2020法律黑客松銅牌獎

Digital Journalism 數位新聞學
Focusing on data-driven news and digital storytelling especially "scrollytelling".  With courses teaching R, Python, frontend techniques along with concepts of data visualization and storytelling as well, we are trying to contact and collaborate with several Taiwanese news media to produce data-driven news reports. News media includes READr of Mirror Media, CommonWealth Magazine, and theReporter.

2021 暑假 / 資料新聞讀書會
台大新聞所、政大傳碩共 14 人

2020 全球華文永續報導獎
學生組融媒體首獎

Recent projects and activities

 Due to Prof. Hsieh's computer science background, we participated in many hackathons and programs/projects related to teaching programming for social scientists. 
In 2021 Autumn, Prof. Hsieh along with several scholars interested in using computational methods to deal with social science problems, host the "Computational Communication Conference 2021"  In 2019 Autumn, Prof. Hsieh participated a legal hackathon with a legal-background lab member and two students from political science. We implemented a chat bot to help the general public to know the feature of legal text.










Computational Communication Conference 2021 / 計算傳播研討會

Prof. Hsieh in a group discussion in the UFO project of Taiwan MOE



Prof. Hsieh participated to 2019 Legal Hackathon with Mao-Wang and Alan



Prof. Hsieh introduced the cross-discipline program of our institute

Recent lab activities.


In Nov. 2019, our Lab members organized a hands-on workshop on data driven news report. Using distracted accounts and behaviors as data,  participants were introduced how to detect coordinated and collaborative behaviors by network analysis. We also introduce basic R programming for participants without programming experience. Many participants come from Taiwanese news media.
Instructors and tutors consist lab members
Prof. Hsieh introduced the concept of network analysis
Chia-Yu introduced how to use R for exploratory data analysis