Shengchun Huang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Media and the Knight Faculty Fellow affiliated with the Center for Media Engagement at Moody College of Communication, UT Austin. Check the recent news about Dr. Huang.

Dr. Huang's research area is at the intersection of Political Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computational Social Science. Specifically, Dr. Huang's work examines how AI and algorithms shape users' news behaviors and perceptions in digital media environments, as well as the societal and civic consequences. To answer these questions, Dr. Huang employs computational, quantitative, and qualitative social science approaches. Check Dr. Huang's research here.

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Dr. Huang received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Annenberg, she obtained an M.A. in Journalism and Communication from Tsinghua University and a B.A. in Communication from Renmin University of China. She had previously engaged in various journalistic practices before embarking on her academic career.