kevin zheng
(he/they)
social media researcher • public interest technologist • fan of maude latour
phd student at the university of michigan school of information
connect 🗣️
connect
contact: hi@ze.vin • schedule a meeting
elsewhere: instagram • bluesky • linkedin • github
music: last.fm • concert archives • record collection
research 🧑💻🏘️💬
research
in the media! ↓
- Jiselle Lee. YouTube is full of old, unseen home videos. Now you can watch them at random. The Washington Post, November 29 2024.
- Ryan McGrady. What We Discovered on ‘Deep YouTube.’ The Atlantic, January 26 2024.
- Mike Sugarman and Ethan Zuckerman. 97. There are 14 billion videos on YouTube. Mr. Beast, we hereby challenge you to watch them all. Reimagining the Internet, January 31 2024.
projects
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developing research methods to collect + analyze large, random, and representative samples of the youtube and tiktok platforms
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creating public software tools for sharing independent platform transparency data on youtube (tubestats.org) and tiktok (in development!)
affiliations
- advised by eric gilbert (professor of information) and christian sandvig (professor of digital media)
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research affiliate, initiative for digital public infrastructure at the manning college of information and computer sciences, umass amherst
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researcher at media cloud