Ongoing work

News Finds Me phenomenon: political messaging and its influence (tentative title)

This project is guided by two aims of explorations. First, by leveraging computational content analysis to study political email messages, it is the hope that this study could bridge these content that are delivered to each individuals and some of the more macro political messages. Second, how common languages of political information communication translate or equate to more common languages that are used in the field of information science.

Surveillance and information behavior: self-censorship as a short-term effects and the unclear long-term effects (tentative title)

This project aims to explore the effect of information censorship from the perspective of its short term and long term psychological and cognitive impact on individuals.

Information reality and its aesthetics: what can we learn from real Zen (tentative title)

Information understanding and information design has a lot to learn from Eastern aesthetics. This paper suggests that the implication of Eastern aesthetics for information is in general yet to be mapped out. This writing explores the following questions: what are some of the basic principles of aesthetics of Eastern cultures? How do they differ from current aesthetics principles that are in use for information understanding and information design? What might be the understanding of information and information design under the aesthetics principle of the East?

Baihuawen and the Westernization of the Chinese language: a discussion of implications for studying intercultural information ethics (tentative title)

Information classification ontology and its correspondence to philosophical traditions (tentative title)