Ziwen Chen

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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 process through which culture and meaning are collectively constructed, reproduced, and evolved. I study the historical process of how market logic has spilled over into private life and reconfigured the way we perceive ourselves and others. I am also curious about how modern technologies like AI and large language models shape contemporary meaning production. In my research, I use both computational methods (e.g., network analysis, natural language processing) and digital experiments.

My research interest focuses on Culture and Cognition, Human & Machine, Social Network, and Computational Social Science.