Rubing Shen
PhD Candidate in Sociology
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I am a PhD candidate in sociology at the Sciences Po’s Médialab and at the CREST (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), under the supervision of Jean-Philippe Cointet and Étienne Ollion.
My research focuses on the transformations of political journalism in France over the last decades, with a special focus on the changing framing of politics-related events in French print media. By combining machine learning (especially natural language processing) and econometric methods, I aim to identify the driving forces accounting for changes in journalistic norms.
I also have a methodological interest in computational social science. Based on examples from my empirical research, I attempt to illustrate how machine learning can provide new insights into some classic research questions in social sciences.
Research Interests
Sociology of Journalism. Cultural Sociology. Computational Social Sciences. Natural Language Processing. Causal Inference.
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