Publications

Zhang, Han. 2026. "Two-Layer Panopticon: How the Chinese Government Uses Digital Surveillance to Prevent Collective Action." Social Forces .
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Zhang, Han and Ryan Leung. 2025. "Joint Text-and-Image Clustering for Social Science Research." Sociological Methodology .
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Hong, Jean, Yong Kim, Han Zhang, and Tianzhu Qin. 2025. "Hug Fans or Follow Celebrities? How Nationalism Is Reinforced on Chinese Social Media." Science Advances 11(45): eadu8241.
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Cheng, Linda Hong, Yao Lu, and Han Zhang. 2024. "Patriarchal Erasure and Manufactured Passivity: Asymmetric Government and News Media Attention to Protests in China." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 29(3): 309-331.
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Zhang, Han, Yao Lu, and Rui Bai. 2024. "Underrepresentation and Misrepresentation: Selection and Description Bias in Protest Reporting by Government and News Media on Weibo." The China Quarterly 257: 75-99.
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Zhang, Han. 2023. "Analyzing Image Data with Machine Learning." in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning .
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Liu, Larry and Han Zhang. 2023. "Robots and Protest: Does Increased Protest Among Chinese Workers Result in More Automation?." Socio-Economic Review 21(3): 1751–1772.
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Zhang, Han and Yilang Peng. 2022. "Image Clustering: An Unsupervised Approach to Categorize Visual Data in Social Science Research." Sociological Methods and Research 53(3): 1534–1587.
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Zhang, Han. 2021. "How Using Machine Learning Classification as a Variable in Regression Leads to Attenuation Bias and What to Do About It." SocArXiv .
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Wei, Lai, Elaine Yao, and Han Zhang. 2021. "Authoritarian Responsiveness and Political Attitudes during COVID-19: Evidence from Weibo and a Survey Experiment." Chinese Sociological Review 55(1): 1-37.
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Zhang, Han and Jennifer Pan. 2019. "CASM: A Deep Learning Approach for Identifying Collective Action Events with Text and Image Data from Social Media." Sociological Methodology 49(1): 1-57.
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Zhang, Han, Shawndra Hill, and David Rothschild. 2018. "Addressing Selection Bias in Event Studies with General-Purpose Social Media Panels." Journal of Data and Information Quality 10(1): 4:1-4:24.
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Zhang, Han. 2016. "Causal Effect of Witnessing Political Protest on Civic Engagement." .
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