Winson Peng, Ph.D.

Winson Peng, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication

Publications in Chronological Order

Edited Volumes

  1. Peng, T. Q., Liang, H., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2019) (Eds.). Introducing computational social science for Asia-Pacific communication research. Asian Journal of Communication, 9(3).
  2. van Atteveldt, W., & Peng, T. Q. (2018) (Eds.). Computational methods for communication science. Communication Methods and Measures, 12(2-3).

Journal Articles

  1. Lee, S., Choung, H., Peng, T. Q., Lapinski, M. K., Jang, Y., & Turner, M. M. (in press). Believe or not: A network analysis investigating how individuals embrace false and true statements during COVID-19. Communication Monographs.
  2. Heo, R., & Peng, T. Q. (in press). A revisit to the relationship between internet access and civic engagement: A multi-level analysis of between-country differences and within-country change. International Journal of Communication.
  3. Lee, S., Cho, M. S., & Peng, T. Q. (2024). Understanding Sentiment towards Racial Unrest through Temporal and Geographic Lenses: A Multilevel-Analysis across Metropolitan Areas in the United States. Frontiers in Communication.
  4. Yoon, H., Jang, Y., Lapinski, M., Turner, M. M., Peng, T. Q., & Lee, S. (2024). The role of collective group orientation and social norms on physical distancing behaviors for disease prevention. Health Communication.
  5. Zhang, Q., Liang, H., Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2023). The effect of affordance on deliberation when retweeting: From the perspective of expression effect. Computers in Human Behavior.
  6. Lee, S., & Peng, T. Q. (2023). Understanding audience behavior with digital traces: Past, present, and future. Digital Journalism.
  7. Xu, Y., & Peng, T. Q. (2023). Ecological Constraints on Audience Size in the Digital Media System: Evidence From the Longitudinal Tracking Data From 2019 to 2022. Human Communication Research.
  8. Zhou, Y. X., Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2023). Will time matter with cognitive load and retention in online news consumption? Digital Journalism, 11(1), 181-202.
  9. Yang, Y., Lin, C. A., Peng, T. Q., & Pierre, L. (2023). #MeToo: Intersecting gender, race, user identity, social judgment and social support. The Journal of Social Media in Society, 12(1), 348-370.
  10. Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2022). Competition, cooperation, and coexistence: An ecological approach to public agenda dynamics in the United States (1958-2020). Communication Research.
  11. Danowski, J., van Klyton, A., Peng, T. Q., Ma, S. Y., Nkakleu, R., & Biboum, A. D. (2022). ICT development, interorganizational networks, and public sector corruption in Africa. Quality & Quantity.
  12. Tan, Y., Peng. T. Q., & Chiang, Y. S. (2022). The Facebook networking among political candidates and its outcomes: An empirical study of the 2016 legislative election in Taiwan. Journal of Information Society. [in Chinese]
  13. Lee, S., Ma, S. Y., Meng, J., Zhuang, J., & Peng, T. Q. (2022). Detecting sentiment toward emerging infectious disease on social media: A validity evaluation of dictionary-based sentiment analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6759.
  14. Zhang, L., Li, Y. N., Peng, T. Q., & Wu, Y. (2022). Dynamics of the social construction of knowledge: An empirical study of Zhihu in China. EPJ Data Science.
  15. Chung, M., Jang, Y., Lapinski, M., Kerr, J., Zhao, J. H., Shupp, R., & Peng, T. Q. (2022). I do, therefore I think it is normal: The causal effects of behavior on descriptive norm formation and evolution. Social Influence, 17(1), 17-35.
  16. Wang, Y. F., Peng, T. Q., Lu, H. H., Wang, H. R., Xie, X., Qu, H. M., & Wu, Y. C. (2022). Seek for success: A visualization approach for understanding the dynamics of academic careers. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(1), 475-485.
  17. Anderson, J., Lapinski, M., Turner, M., Peng, T. Q., & Schmaelzle, R. (2022). Speaking of values: Value-expressive communication and exercise intentions. Health Communication, 37(10), 1285-1294.
  18. Lee, S., Peng, T. Q., Lapinski, M., Turner, M., Jang, Y., & Schaaf, A. (2021). Too stringent or too lenient: Antecedents and consequences of perceived stringency of COVID-19 policies in the United States. Health Policy OPEN, 2, 100047.
  19. Zhang, L., Zheng, L., & Peng, T. Q. (2021). Examining familial role in mobile news consumption as a sequential process. Telematics and Informatics, 56, 101502.
  20. Peng, T. Q., Zhou, Y. X., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2020). From filled to empty time intervals: Quantifying online behaviors with digital traces. Communication Methods and Measures, 14(4), 219-238.
  21. Zhang, Y., Cao, B. L., Wang, Y. F., Peng, T. Q., & Wang, X. H. (2020). When public health research meets social media: Knowledge mapping from 2000 to 2018. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(8), e17582.
  22. Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2020). Mobile phone use as sequential processes: From discrete behaviors to sessions of behaviors and trajectories of sessions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 25(2), 129-146.
  23. Zhuang, J., Peng, T. Q., Tan, J. L., & Wu, Y. C. (2020). Mixed and blended emotional reactions to 2014 Ebola outbreak. Journal of Global Health, 10, 010304.
  24. Peng, T. Q., Liang, H., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2019). Introducing computational social science for Asia-Pacific communication research. Asian Journal of Communication, 9(3), 205-216.
  25. Hilbert, M., Barnett, G., Blumenstock, J., Contractor, N., Diesner, J., Frey, S., González-Bailón, S., Lamberson, P. J., Pan, J., Peng, T. Q., Shen, C. H., Smaldino, P. E., van Atteveldt, W., Waldherr, A., Zhang, J. W., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2019). Computational communication science: A methodological catalyzer for a maturing discipline. International Journal of Communication, 13, 3912-3934.
  26. Guan, L., Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2019). Who is tracking health on mobile devices: Behavioral logfile analysis in Hong Kong. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 7, e13679.
  27. Robertson, C., Dutton, W., Ackland, R., & Peng, T. Q. (2019). The democratic role of social media in political debates: The use of Twitter in the first televised US presidential debate of 2016.Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 16, 105-118.
  28. Shi, J. Y., Wang, X. H., Peng, T. Q., & Chen, L. (2019). Cancer prevention messages on Chinese social media: A content analysis grounded in the extended parallel process model and attribution theory. International Journal of Communication, 13, 1959-1976.
  29. Zheng, H., Aung, H. H., Erdt, M., Peng, T. Q., Sesagiri Raamkumar, A., & Theng, Y. L. (2019). Social media presence of scholarly journals. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70, 256-270.
  30. Paulus, F. M., Müller-Pinzler, L., Meshi, D., Peng, T. Q., Martinez, M. M., & Krach, S. (2019). The politics of embarrassment: Considerations on how norm-transgressions of political representatives shape nation-wide communication of emotions on social media. Frontiers in Communication, 4, 0. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2019.00011
  31. Wang, X. H., Chen, L., Shi, J. Y., & Peng, T. Q. (2019). What makes cancer information viral on social media? Computers in Human Behavior, 93, 149-156.
  32. Lu, J., Xie, X., Lan, J., Peng, T. Q., Wu, Y., & Chen, W. (2019). BeXplorer: Visual analytics of dynamic interplay between communication and purchase behaviors in MMORPGs. Visual Informatics, 3, 87-101. doi:10.1016/j.visinf.2019.06.002
  33. van Atteveldt, W., & Peng, T. Q. (2018). When communication meets computation: Opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls in computational communication science. Communication Methods & Measures, 12(2-3), 81-92.
  34. Chen, L., Wang, X. H., & Peng, T. Q. (2018). Nature and diffusion of gynecologic cancer-related misinformation on social media. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20, e11515.
  35. Zhu, J. J. H., Chen, H. X., Peng, T. Q., Liu, X. F., & Dai, H. X. (2018). How to measure sessions of mobile device use? Quantification, evaluation, and applications. Mobile Media & Communication, 6, 215-232.
  36. Sun, G. D., Tang, T., Peng, T. Q., Liang, R. H., & Wu, Y. C. (2018). SocialWave: Visual analysis of spatio-temporal diffusion of information on social media. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 9, Article 15.
  37. Zhu, Q. F., Skoric, M., & Peng, T. Q. (2018). Citizens’ use of the Internet and public service delivery: A longitudinal study of the first-level administrative divisions in China (1997-2014). International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), 5, 32-42.
  38. Zhang, L., Zheng, L., & Peng, T. Q. (2017). Structurally embedded news consumption on mobile news applications. Information Processing & Management, 53, 1242-1253.
  39. Xu, X. X., Yang, X. D., Lu, J. H., Lan, J., Peng, T. Q., Wu, Y. C., & Chen, W. (2017). Examining the effects of network externalities, density, and closure on in-game currency price in online games. Internet Research, 27, 924-941.
  40. Peng, T. Q., Sun, G. D., & Wu, Y. C. (2017). Interplay between public attention and public emotion towards multiple social issues on Twitter. PLoS ONE, 12, e0167986.
  41. Shi, J. Y., Wang, X. H., Peng, T. Q., & Chen, L. (2017). Understanding interactions in virtual HIV communities: Using social network analysis approach. AIDS Care, 29, 239-243.
  42. Wang, X. T., Liu, S. X., Chen, Y., Peng, T. Q., Su, J., Yang, J., & Guo, B. N. (2016). How ideas flow across multiple social groups. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST 2016), Baltimore, Maryland. doi: 10.1109/VAST.2016.7883511
  43. Peng, T. Q., Liu, M. C., Wu, Y. C., & Liu, S. X. (2016). Follower-followee network, communication networks and vote agreement of U.S. members of Congress. Communication Research, 43, 996-1024.
  44. Wang, X. H., Shi, J. Y., Chen, L., & Peng, T. Q. (2016). An examination of users’ influence in online HIV/AIDS communities. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 19, 314-320.
  45. Qin, J., & Peng, T. Q. (2016). Googling environmental issues: Web search queries as a measurement of public attention on environmental issues. Internet Research, 26, 57-73.
  46. Peng, T. Q. (2015). Assortative mixing, preferential attachment and triadic closure: A longitudinal study of tie-generative mechanisms in journal citation networks. Journal of Informetrics, 9, 250-262.
  47. Zhang, L., & Peng, T. Q. (2015). Breadth, depth and speed: Diffusion of advertising messages on microblogging sites. Internet Research, 25, 453-470.
  48. Jiang, L. C., Wang, Z. Z., Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2015). The divided communities of shared concerns: Mapping the intellectual structure of e-health research in social science journals. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 84, 24-35.
  49. Sun, G. D., Wu, Y. C., Liu, S. X., Peng, T. Q., Zhu, J. J. H., & Liang, R. F. (2014). EvoRiver: Visual analysis of topic coopetition on social media. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20, 1753-1762.
  50. Zhang, L., Peng, T. Q., Zhang, Y. P., Wang, X. H., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2014). Content or context: Which matters more in information processing on microblogging sites? Computers in Human Behavior, 31, 242-249.
  51. Xu, P. P., Wu, Y. C., Wei, E. X., Peng, T. Q., Liu, S. X., Zhu, J. J. H., & Qu, H. M. (2013). Visual analysis of topic competition on social media. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19, 2012-2021.
  52. Peng, T. Q., & Wang, Z. Z. (2013). Network closure, brokerage, and structural influence of journals: A longitudinal study of journal citation network in Internet research (2000-2010). Scientometrics, 97, 675-693.
  53. Peng, T. Q., Zhang, L., Zhong, Z. J., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2013). Mapping the landscape of Internet studies: Text mining of social science journal articles 2000-2009. New Media & Society, 15, 644-664.
  54. Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2012). Where you publish matters most: A multilevel analysis of factors affecting citations of Internet studies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63, 1789-1803.
  55. Peng, T. Q., Zhu, J. J. H., Tong, J. J., & Jiang, S. J. (2012). Predicting Internet nonusers’ adoption intention and adoption behavior: A panel study of theory of planned behavior. Information, Communication & Society, 15, 1236-1257.
  56. Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2011). A game of win-win or win-lose? —- A revisit to the Internet’s influence on use of traditional media and sociability. New Media & Society, 13, 568-586.
  57. Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2011). Sophistication of Internet Usage (SIU) and its attitudinal antecedents: An empirical study in Hong Kong. Computers in Human Behavior, 27, 421-431.
  58. Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2010). Youth and the Internet in east Asia. Journal of Youth Studies, 13, 13-30.
  59. Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2008). Cohort trends in perceived Internet influence on political, efficacy in Hong Kong. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 11, 75-79.

Book Chapters/Invited Articles

  1. Zhang, L, Peng, T. Q., Wang, C. J., Liang, H., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2021). A natural course from marginality to centrality: What we learned from the development of computational communication research in China. In Francis L. F. Lee, Yu Huang (Eds), Inherit and Inspire: The Past, Present and Future of Chinese Communication Studies (pp. 399-419). Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. [in Chinese]
  2. Zhou, Y. X., Lan, J., & Peng, T. Q. (2021). Big data analysis and visualization. In Xiaohua Wang, Wenliang Guo (Eds), Communication Research Methods (pp. 380-408). Beijing: Higher Education Press. [in Chinese]
  3. Lee, S., & Peng, T. Q. (2021). Big Data, Analysis of. In Jan Van den Bulck (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology. Wiley-Blackwell.
  4. Dearing, J. W., Kee, K. F., & Peng, T. Q. (2018). Historical roots of dissemination and implementation science. In R. C. Brownson, G. A. Colditz, & E. K. Proctor (Eds.), Dissemination and implementation research in health: translating science to practice (2nd ed., pp. 47-61). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  5. Zhu, J. J. H., Peng, T. Q., Liang, H., Wang, C. J., Qin, J., & Chen, H. X. (2014). Computational social science in communication research. e-Science Technology & Application, 5(2), 3-13. [in Chinese]