Weiyue Cynthia Chen

Asst. Professor @ButlerCCom |Ph.D. @MSUComArtSci | M.A. @Tsinghua_Uni | news consumption, audience research, media biz & entrepreneurship

[Weiyue Cynthia Chen @chen_weiyue]

Very thrilled that my research with @ThorsonE was featured by API! There’s a lot more to do on this topic and we’d love to continue the discussion.

[American Press Institute @AmPress]

What makes people willing to pay for news? Turns out, one of the top reasons is because it "helps maintain and promote their social status among peers," according to a recent survey. https://t.co/R8llxYYPCb

[Margaret R. Roller @MargaretRoller]

"#Qualitative Data Analysis: Essential Thinking to Theme Development" - Maintaining the integrity of each case embraces what is said (text) & not said (nonverbal communication) as well as other components of the research engagement such as images. https://t.co/8jO3ze8t3C

[Harvard Business Impact Education @HarvardBizEdu]

Being proactive at work can leave you mentally drained later. New #research from @edhec_BSchool, @essec & @unipotsdam professors explores the cognitive cost of the extra effort in improving your work & what #educators can do to protect their energy: https://t.co/AHTWXrpg2d

[Tim Vos @TPVos]

This open access article was published in December but I hadn't pushed it out yet. If you're using Hierarchy of Influences, I encourage you to have a look at how we revisit the model. (Kudos to Zayeef) Full article: https://t.co/DxttSv0woU

[Nieman Lab @NiemanLab]

Some older nonprofit outlets are struggling to keep up. Newsrooms launched before 2009 were much more likely to report revenue declines than younger outlets. https://t.co/SfV4EGaXNt

[Nieman Lab @NiemanLab]

Newsrooms can try to define impact even at the beginning of the reporting process, impact editors say. https://t.co/JJpC8Zsa6h

[Digital Journalism @djeditorialteam]

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! Finnish news users often see the use of audience data as commercially driven. But is it only about money? @OvaskaLiisa highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of how audience data is used in journalism.
➡️https://t.co/FHDnB1s9WY

[American Press Institute @AmPress]

Let young people lead the conversation https://t.co/kXvUV6CQBk

[Rasmus Kleis Nielsen @rasmus_kleis]

"People who believe the news is not made for them are reaping far fewer benefits from news, despite consuming more of it than their counterparts". New work from Tabor et al on audience alienation (more common among young+less privileged) and consequences https://t.co/JN5fuNHh4J

[Weiyue Cynthia Chen @chen_weiyue]

@marcelobueno Hi Marcelo! I sent you an email.

[Weiyue Cynthia Chen @chen_weiyue]

📢 New Publication Alert 📢 In this monograph, Esther Thorson and I employed three studies to answer one question: What makes people pay for news subscriptions (even when free alternatives are available)? https://t.co/7pwdrJh5Rt

[Marta Hill @martajhill]

A project I reported almost a year ago is finally out! In my last semester at @NUjournalism I wrote a piece about what journalism schools should be doing to better prepare their students for the harassment they might face. It's in @NiemanReports today: https://t.co/DKHvkP8kWD

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

Data science for economists: don't miss out on version control, web scraping, spatial analysis, workflow, project management and other needs.

[Weiyue Cynthia Chen @chen_weiyue]

Special thanks to Drs. @dr_serena , Stephen Lacy, and Johannes M. Bauer, whose comments were instrumental in shaping this work. We also thank JCM editor @DrLindaSteiner for her tremendous support throughout all stages of publication.

[Weiyue Cynthia Chen @chen_weiyue]

Plus, make sure to check out the commentary by @dkiesow who contextualized our theory and proposed integrating more applied business frameworks such as JTBD. https://t.co/K1fcjPbH2s

[Weiyue Cynthia Chen @chen_weiyue]

We identified six fundamental motivations for American news subscribers: supporting journalism, journalism quality, triggering by the paywall, community attachment, affordability, and content utility. More in the article (or invite us for a shorter presentation 😉).

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

How to write a grant?
1. Write it for the reviewer, not you, the applicant.
2. Communicate in stories.
3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps.
4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading.
5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review.
https://t.co/wHZ065DNlm

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

"Understanding LLMs from Scratch Using Middle School Math"

Neural networks learn to predict text by converting words to numbers and finding patterns through attention mechanisms.

So the network turns words into numbers, then use attention to decide what's important for predicting next words

Nice long blog (40 minuted reading time), check the link in comment.

[Yan Holtz @R_Graph_Gallery]

Circular barplot? 🌀

➡️ There are now plenty of tutorials in the R and Python graph galleries!

- Python with @matplotlib :
https://t.co/8BKqLYsRH8

- R with ggplot2:
https://t.co/ot3B7FJK9g

[Joshua Benton (@joshuabenton.com on Bluesky) @jbenton]

I honestly cannot remember the last time I was as shocked by a news-industry number as I was by this one:

***TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND*** @washingtonpost subscribers have canceled over Jeff Bezos' decision to block an endorsement of Kamala Harris.

https://t.co/wvup7c23Wm