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Bio

Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the politics of authoritarian (non-democratic) countries in the digital age. How autocrats constrain collective action through online censorship, propaganda, and responsiveness. How information proliferation influences the ability of authoritarian regimes to collect reliable information. How public preferences are arranged and formed. Her work combines experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian regimes to examine these questions.

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Communication
Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Political Science

Program Affiliations

Center for East Asian Studies

Professional Education

BA, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School (2004)
PhD, Harvard University, Government (2015)

Contact

Academic
jp1@stanford.edu
University - Faculty Department: Communication Position: Asst Professor
- 450 Serra Mall Road
- Building 120, Room 110
- Stanford, California 94305

Additional Info

Mail Code: 2050

2019-20 Courses

Communication Colloquium
COMM 390 (Spr)
Independent Studies (8)
- Advanced Individual Work
  COMM 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curriculum Practical Training
  COMM 380 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Honors Thesis
  COMM 195 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Individual Work
  COMM 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Individual Work
  COMM 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Major Research Project
  COMM 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Media Studies M.A. Project
  COMM 290 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Minor Research Project
  COMM 397 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
Prior Year Courses
2018-19 Courses
- Censorship and Propaganda
  COMM 158, COMM 258 (Aut)
- Communication Colloquium
  COMM 390 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Communication Research Methods
  COMM 106, COMM 206 (Win)
- Research Seminar in Computational Social Science
  COMM 382B (Win)
2016-17 Courses
- Big Data and Causal Inference
  COMM 382 (Win)
- Communication Research Methods
  COMM 106, COMM 206 (Win)
- Information Control in Authoritarian Regimes
  COMM 157, COMM 257, COMM 357 (Aut)

Stanford Advisees

Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Samuel Chang, Tongtong Zhang
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Xu Xu
Master's Program Advisor
Yvonne Lee
Doctoral (Program)
Yingdan Lu, Dan Muise
Postdoctoral Research Mentor
Xu Xu

All Publications

Online field experiments ASIAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION Muise, D., Pan, J. 2019; 29 (3): 217–34

View details for DOI 10.1080/01292986.2018.1453850

View details for Web of Science ID 000467880200002
How Chinese Officials Use the Internet to Construct Their Public Image POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND METHODS Pan, J. 2019; 7 (2): 197–213

View details for DOI 10.1017/psrm.2017.15

View details for Web of Science ID 000466762400001
How the Market for Social Media Shapes Strategies of Internet Censorship DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRATIC FUTURES Pan, J., DelliCarpini, M. X. 2019: 196–230

View details for Web of Science ID 000464289800009
Concealing Corruption: How Chinese Officials Distort Upward Reporting of Online Grievances AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW Pan, J., Chen, K. 2018; 112 (3): 602–20

View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055418000205

View details for Web of Science ID 000437428100011
China's Newsmakers: Official Media Coverage and Political Shifts in the Xi Jinping Era CHINA QUARTERLY Jaros, K., Pan, J. 2018; 233: 111–36

View details for DOI 10.1017/S0305741017001679

View details for Web of Science ID 000428650500006
China's Ideological Spectrum JOURNAL OF POLITICS Pan, J., Xu, Y. 2018; 80 (1): 254–73

View details for DOI 10.1086/694255

View details for Web of Science ID 000419487800033
How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW King, G., Pan, J., Roberts, M. E. 2017; 111 (3): 484–501

View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055417000144

View details for Web of Science ID 000406688200004
Conditional Receptivity to Citizen Participation: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in China COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES Meng, T., Pan, J., Yang, P. 2017; 50 (4): 399-433

View details for DOI 10.1177/0010414014556212

View details for Web of Science ID 000394902400001
How Market Dynamics of Domestic and Foreign Social Media Firms Shape Strategies of Internet Censorship PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM Pan, J. 2017; 64 (3-4): 167–88

View details for DOI 10.1080/10758216.2016.1181525

View details for Web of Science ID 000402099100005
Sources of Authoritarian Responsiveness: A Field Experiment in China AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Chen, J., Pan, J., Xu, Y. 2016; 60 (2): 383-400

View details for DOI 10.1111/ajps.12207

View details for Web of Science ID 000374005500007
No! Formal Theory, Causal Inference, and Big Data Are Not Contradictory Trends in Political Science PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS Monroe, B. L., Pan, J., Roberts, M. E., Sen, M., Sinclair, B. 2015; 48 (1): 71-74

View details for DOI 10.1017/S1049096514001760

View details for Web of Science ID 000347159500026
Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation SCIENCE King, G., Pan, J., Roberts, M. E. 2014; 345 (6199): 891-891

View details for DOI 10.1126/science.1251722

View details for Web of Science ID 000340524700035
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW King, G., Pan, J., Roberts, M. E. 2013; 107 (2): 326-343

View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055413000014

View details for Web of Science ID 000318942500007

Jennifer Pan

Assistant Professor of Communication and, by courtesy, of Political Science

Web page: http://jenpan.com

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