Contact Information
702 S Wright St. 3001 Lincoln Hall Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Victor (Syuan-Li) Renn is a 4th-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He focuses on using computational methods to extract meaningful information from digitalized news articles, including but not limited to news events, news sources, and news locations. In terms of substantive research questions, he explores how the production of foreign news is influenced by authoritarian countries and the temporal changes in the coverage and content of local news, with a geographical focus in the US.
Research Interests
Digital Journalism
Computational Text Analysis
Foreign News
Local News
Education
M.S. in Sociology, National Sun Yat-sen University
B.A. in Computer Science, National Taiwan University