Justin Chun-ting Ho

- Name
- Justin Chun-ting Ho
- Title
- Organisation
- Sociology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Github: justinchuntingho
- Telephone
- Justin.Ho@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Nationalism and National Identity, Hong Kong, China, Social media, text and data analytics, Computational Social Science, Discourse Analysis, Big data, Big Data Analytics, Big data applied to social sciences, Social network analysis
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/sociology/justin_chun-ting_ho
PhD Title
The Rise of Hong Kong Nationalism on the Edge of Empires
Supervisors
Publications
Ho, J.C. (2020) How biased is the sample? Reverse engineering the ranking algorithm of Facebook’s Graph application programming interface. Big Data & Society 7(1).
Ho, J.C. (2019) Assessing the Bias of Facebook's Graph API. ACM Hypertext and Social Media 2019.
Soldner, F., Ho, J.C., Makhortykh, M., Van der Vegt, I.W.J., Mozes, M. & Kleinberg, B. (2019) Uphill from here: Sentiment patterns in videos from left- and right-wing YouTube news channels. NLP+CSS at NAACL 2019.
Davidson, E., Ho, J.C. & Jamieson, L. (2019) Computational text analysis using R in Big Qual data: lessons from a feasibility study looking at care and intimacy. In: Weller, S. and Edwards, R. and Jamieson, L. & Davidson, E. (eds). Analysing large volumes of complex qualitative data - Reflections from a group of international experts. NCRM Working Paper.
Ho, J.C. (2017) Quebec nationalism: the lesson for Hong Kong. In: Fong, C. (ed). Hong Kong Reformation Theory II. Hong Kong: Chapter One Publishing. (In Chinese)
Ho, J.C. (2015) Localized liberal values: Past and present of the Hong Kong identity. In: Fong, C. (ed). Hong Kong Reformation Theory. Taipei: Azoth Books. (In Chinese)
Kwong, K. & Ho, J.C. (2015) On Hong Kong self-governing political community: A response to the liberalist. In: Fong, C. (ed). Hong Kong Reformation Theory. Taipei: Azoth Books. (In Chinese)
Wong, H, Zhang, Y., Ho, J.C. & Ng, S.L. (2016) Understanding the change in youth’s quality of life in light of the Youth Quality of Life Index. In: Chiu, S.W., Ip, J.C. & Li, H. (eds). Restless youth: Observation on Hong Kong’s new generation. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co. (In Chinese)
Book Reviews
Ho, J.C. (2017) Book review: Dynamics of National Identity: Media and Societal Factors of What We Are. Nations and Nationalism 23(4), pp. 1004–1006.
Ho, J.C. (2016) Book review: Nationalism and Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations: Nation-state, Frontier, and Knowledge of History. China Information 30(3), pp. 391-393.
Conference Presentations
Ho, J.C. (2020, July) Moving Beyond Count-based Approach: Understanding Hong Kong Nationalism with Topic Network. Presented at Political Studies Association Early Career Network Conference. Online.
Ho, J.C. & Or, N.H.K. (2020, April) The Rise and Fall of Internet-based Mobilisation during Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Bill Protests: Evidence from LIHKG Discussion Forum. Accepted for oral presentation at PSA Annual International Conference 2020. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Ho, J.C. (2019, July) A Bootstrapping Approach to Assessing the Bias of Facebook’s Graph API. Presented at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ho, J.C. (2018, December) Assessing the Bias of the New Facebook API. Poster presented at European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. Cologne, Germany.
Ho, J.C. (2018, August) Facebooking Nationalism: the Construction of Hong Kong Nationalism on Facebook. Presented at the Symposium on Digital Research into Media and Politics. Hong Kong.
Ho, J.C. (2018, March) One Kingdom, Two Nations: Social Media Analysis of Scottish National Party and UK Independence Party. Presented at The 28th Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. London, UK.
Ho, J.C. (2017, April) Facebooking Nationalism: the Construction of Hong Kong Nationalism on Facebook. Presented at the New Direction Conference. Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Ho, J.C. (2017, March) Hong Kong nationalism: “New nationalism” with “old roots”. Presented at The 27th Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. London, UK.
Ho, J.C. (2017, March) “Like of the same”: Facebook like-network of the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election. Presented at General Online Research 2017. Berlin, Germany.
Ho, J.C. (2016, June) Constructing the Hong Kong Nation: Cultural Nationalism and Civic Nationalism. Presented at The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2016. Kobe, Japan.
Awards
2019: Gray Scholarship Award, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2018: Best Poster Presentation, European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
2018: Honourable Mention, Summer School Series on Methods for Computational Social Science
Grants
2020: Early Career Access Fund, Political Studies Association
2019: Travel Grant, 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science
2018: Travel Grant, European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, GESIS
2018: Travel Grant, Summer School Series on Methods for Computational Social Science, GESIS
2018: PhD Research Support Fund, University of Edinburgh
2017: Travel Grant, International Political Science Association
2017: Digital Scholarship Training Bursaries, University of Edinburgh
2017: PhD Research Support Fund, University of Edinburgh
Research Experience
03/2019 - 06/2019: Research Assistant, University of Leicester
Project involved: Big Data Analysis of Mental Health Discussion on Chinese Microblogging site Weibo
07/2018 - 07/2018: Research Assistant, University of Winchester
Project involved: Nostalgia in the Social Media
08/2017 - 01/2018: Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh
Project involved: Working Across Qualitative Longitudinal Studies: a feasibility study looking at care and intimacy, Empathy and Trust In Communicating Online (EMoTICON)
02/2015 - 09/2016: Research Assistant, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Projects involved: Using Wellbeing Data in the Valuation of Non-Market Goods: Exploring its Applicability for Use in Hong Kong and China, Hong Kong Quality of Life Index and Youth Quality of Life Index.
02/2014 - 02/2015: Research Assistant, Policy 21 Ltd., Hong Kong
09/2014 - Present: Research Fellow, SynergyNet, Hong Kong
Lecturing Experience
2019: Guest Lecturer (Using pre-existing data for your own research)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2018: Guest Lecturer (Researching Digital Life)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2017: Visiting Lecturer (Introduction to Text Analysis and Digital Research),
Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Teaching Experience (Workshops)
05/2020: Data Carpentry
Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh
04/2020: Collecting Social Media Data
Centre for Data, Culture & Society, University of Edinburgh
02/2020: CDCS Peer Learning Cohorts (Python for Everyone)
Centre for Data, Culture & Society, University of Edinburgh
02/2020: CDCS Peer Learning Cohorts (Python for Everyone)
Centre for Data, Culture & Society, University of Edinburgh
11/2019: CDCS Peer Learning Cohorts (Python for Everyone)
Centre for Data, Culture & Society, University of Edinburgh
05/2019: Basic Text Analysis using R
Digital Scholarship, University of Edinburgh
05/2019: R for Data Visualisation and Statistical Analysis
Q-Step, University of Edinburgh
05/2019: Data Carpentry
Digital Scholarship, University of Edinburgh
02/2019: Data Carpentry
Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh
11/2018: Introduction to R for Absolute Beginners
Digital Scholarship, University of Edinburgh
09/2018: Data Carpentry
Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh
04/2018: Basic Text Analysis using R
Q-Step, University of Edinburgh
10/2017: Basic Text Analysis using R
Digital Scholarship, University of Edinburgh
Tutoring Experience
2019: Tutor (Doing Social Research with Statistics)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2019: Tutor (Researching Social Life)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2018: Tutor (Statistical Modelling)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2018: Tutor (Core Quantitative Data Analysis 1 and 2)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2018: Tutor (Doing Social Research with Statistics)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2018: Tutor (Researching Social Life)
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
2014 - 2015: Teaching Assistant (Work and Productive Life)
S.H. Ho College, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Professional Affliations
Founder and Convenor, Edinburgh Text Analysis Research Group
Carpentries Instructor, The Carpentries.
Associate Fellowship, AdvanceHE (previously Higher Education Academy)
Conference Co-Chair, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
Member, ASEN Edinburgh
University Service
2017 - 2018: Postgraduate Representative
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Academic Qualifications
MSc in Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
BSocSc in Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.