Ziwen Chen

Hi! I am a Ph.D. student in Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. I am a member of the Computational Culture Lab working with Prof. Amir Goldberg and Prof. Douglas Guilbeault. Before starting my Ph.D., I received an M.A. in Computational Social Science from the University of Chicago, where I was advised by Prof. James Evans in the Knowledge Lab.

I am interested in the interplay between market and culture, specifically how market logic reconfigured the way we perceive ourselves and others. In my research, I study the historical diffusion of economic metaphors in public discourse. I’m also interested in topics about consumerism and cultural consumption. Methodologically, I use both data science methods (e.g., network analysis, natural language processing) and digital experiments.

My research interest focuses on Culture and Cognition, Cultural Evolution, Economic Sociology, and Computational Social Science.

You can download my CV here.