Shunyuan Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shunyuan Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shunyuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5604-9522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visual Uniqueness in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces
Peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces have seen exponential growth in recent years, featuring unique offerings from individual providers. However, scalable quantification of visual uniqueness and their impacts on platforms like Airbnb remain largely unexplored. We address this gap by developing, validating, and applying an unsupervised machine learning model to automatically extract uniqueness from images and quantify its impact on demand. We first con…
Serving with a Smile on Airbnb
Non-informational cues, such as facial expressions, can significantly influence judgments and interpersonal impressions. While past research has explored how smiling affects business outcomes in offline or in-store contexts, relatively less is known about how smiling influences consumer choice in e-commerce settings when there is no face-to-face interaction. In this article, we use a longitudinal Airbnb dataset and a facial attribute classifier t…
Debris and Desire
This article examines transgender practices in Southwest China through the analytic lens of assemblage. Through ethnographically contextualizing transgender sex workers' daily navigation of the rapidly shifting urban space in Kunming, this article reconceptualizes transgender as constitutive to the dynamic urban assemblage instead of carving out a space and time external to it. It argues that the critical lens of assemblage in the analysis of tra…
Evolutionary Fantasy
Book Review| April 01 2021 Evolutionary Fantasy: The Sciences of Society and the Concept of the Prostitute Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, Mitra, Durba, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 296 pp. Shunyuan Zhang Shunyuan Zhang Shunyuan Zhang is assistant professor of international studies and women, gender, and sexuality at Trinity College. Search for other works by this author on: This S…
Serving with a Smile on Airbnb
Non-informational cues, such as facial expressions, can significantly influence judgments and interpersonal impressions. While past research has explored how smiling affects business outcomes in offline or in-store contexts, relatively less is known about how smiling influences consumer choice in e-commerce settings when there is no face-to-face interaction. In this article, we use a longitudinal Airbnb dataset and a facial attribute classifier t…
Debris and Desire
This article examines transgender practices in Southwest China through the analytic lens of assemblage. Through ethnographically contextualizing transgender sex workers' daily navigation of the rapidly shifting urban space in Kunming, this article reconceptualizes transgender as constitutive to the dynamic urban assemblage instead of carving out a space and time external to it. It argues that the critical lens of assemblage in the analysis of tra…
Evolutionary Fantasy
Book Review| April 01 2021 Evolutionary Fantasy: The Sciences of Society and the Concept of the Prostitute Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, Mitra, Durba, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 296 pp. Shunyuan Zhang Shunyuan Zhang Shunyuan Zhang is assistant professor of international studies and women, gender, and sexuality at Trinity College. Search for other works by this author on: This S…
Visual Uniqueness in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces
Peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces have seen exponential growth in recent years, featuring unique offerings from individual providers. However, scalable quantification of visual uniqueness and their impacts on platforms like Airbnb remain largely unexplored. We address this gap by developing, validating, and applying an unsupervised machine learning model to automatically extract uniqueness from images and quantify its impact on demand. We first con…
Serving with a Smile on Airbnb
Non-informational cues, such as facial expressions, can significantly influence judgments and interpersonal impressions. While past research has explored how smiling affects business outcomes in offline or in-store contexts, relatively less is known about how smiling influences consumer choice in e-commerce settings when there is no face-to-face interaction. In this article, we use a longitudinal Airbnb dataset and a facial attribute classifier t…
Computer Science (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · World Wide Web (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Assemblage (archaeology (1 work)