AImpact

Ng (Ph.D., UT Austin) is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with appointments in the Department of Journalism and the Institute of Communications Research. She employs computational methods to analyze large-scale unstructured data, studying social media, technology use, and information diffusion. Her work focuses on three distinctive yet interrelated areas: user behavior, embedded structures, and content framing. Her current research investigates the lifecycle of social media platforms and the causes and consequences of user migration.