Chau Tong
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication

Chau Tong is Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her research seeks to understand and tackle information disparities created and facilitated by communication technology and communication processes in the intersections of health and politics.
At Cornell, one of her research projects focuses on using computational methods to understand the potentials for misinformation and racial disparities in the public information environment about colorectal cancer and colorectal cancer screening.
Education
Ph.D., Mass Communications, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. Minor: Educational Psychology)
M.A., Communication, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
B.A., English, Hanoi University, Vietnam
Contact Information
494 Mann Library Building
Ithaca, NY 14853
ctt39 [at] cornell.edu
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Publications
Tong, C., Margolin, D., Chunara, R., Niederdeppe, J., Taylor, T., Dunbar, N. & King, A. (2022). Search Term Identification Methods for Computational Health Communication: A Word Embedding and Network Approach for Health Content on YouTube. JMIR Medical Informatics. doi:10.2196/37862.
Suk, J., Lukito J., Su, M., Kim, S.J., Tong, C., Sun, Z., & Sarma, P. (2022). Do I sound American? How message attributes of foreign disinformation relate to Twitter engagement. Computational Communication Research.
Tong, C., Winckler, H., & Rojas, H. (2021). The Connection Between Perceptions of Media Bias and Influence and Affective Polarization - An Examination in Brazil and Mexico and the United States. Revista de Comunicación Política (Political Communication Magazine), 3, e1.https://doi.org/10.29105/rcp3-1
Lukito, J., Loya, L., Davalos, C., Li, J., Tong, C, & McLeod, D. (2021). Chiming in: A computer-assisted analysis of popular musicians’ political engagement on Twitter. Social Media and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211019013
Tong C., Gill, H., Li, J., Valenzuela, S., Rojas, H. (2020). “Fake News is Anything They Say!” – Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News among the American Public. Mass Communication and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2020.1789661
Ghosh, S., Su, M., Abhishek, A., Suk, J., Tong, C., Kamath, K., Hills, O., Correa, T., Garlough, C., Borah, P. & Shah, D. (2020). Covering #MeToo Across the News Spectrum: Political Accusation and Public Events as Drivers of Press Attention. International Journal of Press & Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161220968081
Xia, Y., Lukito, J., Zhang, Y., Wells, C., Kim, S. J., Tong, C. (2019). Disinformation performed: Self-presentation of a Russian IRA account on Twitter. Information, Communication and Society.https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1621921
Chau in the news

News
A Cornell-led group of researchers has developed an online search method that employs natural language processing to identify terms that are semantically similar to those for cancer screening tests, but in colloquial language.
- Department of Communication
- Communication
- Health + Nutrition