Qin Li

Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. My research lies at the intersection of political communication and computational methods.

My primary research focuses on the impact of the information and social environment on factual beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. In my research, I frequently use and combine various data and methods, including panel surveys, digital trace data, network data, behavioral experiments, geographic data, and text data, to provide compelling evidence. In my dissertation, I develop dyadic and triadic online experiments to examine how dyadic trust and network closure impact factual beliefs and (mis)information sharing, providing novel insights on the social contexts of (mis)information exposure.

My work has been published in Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, PLOS ONE, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. Check out this page for more info.

I am affiliated with Computational and Statistical Models group (COSMOS), Communication and Politics group, and Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk (ComSHER) at OSU.

I obtained my M.A. degree in Communication at Washington State University and a B.A. degree in Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Prior to the graduate program, I interned as a reporter and a data journalist.

Below you will find my email address and social media accounts. Please reach out to me if you are interested in my work or wanted to chat :) You can also find my CV here.