Cynthia Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3984386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6414-3228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Refined definition of level-of-detail for tree models in support of microclimate simulation
Urbanisation and global climate change are amplifying urban overheating, posing challenges to livability, health outcomes, and energy consumption in built environment. Increasing trees is a primary heat mitigation strategy, with landscape design assisted by microclimate simulations. However, currently the representation of trees in microclimate models, such as the widely used ENVI-met, often falls short in supporting this task, due to insufficien…
Gist Inference Scores Predict Cloze Comprehension “In Your Own Words” for Native, Not ESL Readers
Three patient education texts from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) were subjected to a Coh-Metrix analysis, then further analyzed to obtain Gist Inference Scores (GIS), a new measure of the likelihood that readers will make appropriate inferences about a text's bottom-line meaning. In the GIS formula, the Coh-Metrix psycholinguistic variables referential cohesion, deep cohesion, and latent semantic analysis (LSA) verb overlap increase GIS bec…
Assessment of Environmental Demands of Age-Friendly Communities from Perspectives of Different Residential Groups
Age-friendly communities (AFCs) are an important measure for fostering active aging. The key to achieving an age-friendly living environment is to construct or renovate it according to the residents' demands. To date, very few studies have attempted to delve into the AFCs' environmental demand from different groups' perspectives. Based on the theory of place attachment, the aim of this paper is to explore the demand diversity of different groups …
Indie Games in the Digital Age
A host of digital affordances, including reduced cost production tools, open distribution platforms, and ubiquitous connectivity, have engendered the growth of indie games among makers and users, forcing critics to reconsider the question of who makes games and why. Taking seriously this new mode of cultural production compels analysts to reconsider the blurred boundaries and relations of makers, users and texts as well as their respective relati…
FeministAntibodies
This article examines the tensions, communal processes, and narrative frameworks behind producing collective racial politics across differences. As digital media objects, the Asian American Feminist Collective's zine Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus and corresponding #FeministAntibodies Tweetchat responds directly to and anticipates a social media and information environment that has racialized COVID-19 in the l…
International Platforms, International Prejudice in the Platformization of Crafting
The platformization of crafting in an unequal world encourages discriminatory attitudes toward ethnic Others. Imagining that the 'magic circle' of a subcultural platform can insulate users from racism is deeply misguided. We examine this thesis through a mixed-methods approach combining an online survey assessing perceived experiences of racism online and willingness to communicate with people of different ethnicities, discourse analysis of craft…
Temporal dynamics in the daily lives of health practitioners
The working days of health practitioners are long and often hectic. This paper examines the minutiae of how health practitioners, particularly physicians and nurses, organize their time throughout the day. Through in-depth interviews of attending physicians, medical residents, and nursing staff at a major urban teaching hospital in California, I explore the daily dynamics of temporality within the lives of health practitioners, from the point of …
Victimhood in the Face of Media Ideological Battle
This article intends to reveal the power dimensions and ideological positions embedded in dominant media discourses. Informed by theories of media representation as well as those of colonialism and Orientalism, this article analyses eight articles from two British daily online news media sources, namely, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The methodological framework adopted draws on Fairclough's (1995) conception of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA…
Empirical analysis of tenants’ intention to exit public rental housing units based on the Theory of Planned Behavior – The case of Wuhan, China
The Promise of Kickstarter
Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter, a crowdsourced funding site, has been a platform for independent creative projects to get funding, ostensibly providing alternate routes of economic viability outside of a traditional framework of creative production and distribution. Kickstarter comes onto the scene after the proliferation of online social networking sites, through which bridging social capital ties are more easily maintained. This artic…
Causing Ripples in Local Power Relations
Hyperlocal news operations have been considered a promising alternative to the shrinking legacy media for sustaining civic discourse and engagement in local communities. However, these operations’ meso-level influence on civic engagement has not been widely investigated. Building upon the Media System Dependency theory, this article proposed an analytical framework for assessing such influence. This framework was applied to an ethnically diverse …
Substance Use and Dependence Among Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asian Ethnic Groups in the United States
The percentage of multiracial youth appears to be increasing in the United States. However, little has been disseminated about problem behaviors among multiracial Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asians on a national level. Using the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the authors compared multiple-race Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asians, while disaggregating by ethnic subgroups, with single-race individuals w…
Causing Ripples in Local Power Relations
Hyperlocal news operations have been considered a promising alternative to the shrinking legacy media for sustaining civic discourse and engagement in local communities. However, these operations’ meso-level influence on civic engagement has not been widely investigated. Building upon the Media System Dependency theory, this article proposed an analytical framework for assessing such influence. This framework was applied to an ethnically diverse …
FeministAntibodies
This article examines the tensions, communal processes, and narrative frameworks behind producing collective racial politics across differences. As digital media objects, the Asian American Feminist Collective's zine Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus and corresponding #FeministAntibodies Tweetchat responds directly to and anticipates a social media and information environment that has racialized COVID-19 in the l…
Empirical analysis of tenants’ intention to exit public rental housing units based on the Theory of Planned Behavior – The case of Wuhan, China
Temporal dynamics in the daily lives of health practitioners
The working days of health practitioners are long and often hectic. This paper examines the minutiae of how health practitioners, particularly physicians and nurses, organize their time throughout the day. Through in-depth interviews of attending physicians, medical residents, and nursing staff at a major urban teaching hospital in California, I explore the daily dynamics of temporality within the lives of health practitioners, from the point of …
International Platforms, International Prejudice in the Platformization of Crafting
The platformization of crafting in an unequal world encourages discriminatory attitudes toward ethnic Others. Imagining that the 'magic circle' of a subcultural platform can insulate users from racism is deeply misguided. We examine this thesis through a mixed-methods approach combining an online survey assessing perceived experiences of racism online and willingness to communicate with people of different ethnicities, discourse analysis of craft…
Substance Use and Dependence Among Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asian Ethnic Groups in the United States
The percentage of multiracial youth appears to be increasing in the United States. However, little has been disseminated about problem behaviors among multiracial Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asians on a national level. Using the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the authors compared multiple-race Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asians, while disaggregating by ethnic subgroups, with single-race individuals w…
The Promise of Kickstarter
Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter, a crowdsourced funding site, has been a platform for independent creative projects to get funding, ostensibly providing alternate routes of economic viability outside of a traditional framework of creative production and distribution. Kickstarter comes onto the scene after the proliferation of online social networking sites, through which bridging social capital ties are more easily maintained. This artic…
Substance Use and Dependence Among Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asian Ethnic Groups in the United States
The percentage of multiracial youth appears to be increasing in the United States. However, little has been disseminated about problem behaviors among multiracial Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asians on a national level. Using the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the authors compared multiple-race Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Asians, while disaggregating by ethnic subgroups, with single-race individuals w…
Causing Ripples in Local Power Relations
Hyperlocal news operations have been considered a promising alternative to the shrinking legacy media for sustaining civic discourse and engagement in local communities. However, these operations’ meso-level influence on civic engagement has not been widely investigated. Building upon the Media System Dependency theory, this article proposed an analytical framework for assessing such influence. This framework was applied to an ethnically diverse …
The Promise of Kickstarter
Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter, a crowdsourced funding site, has been a platform for independent creative projects to get funding, ostensibly providing alternate routes of economic viability outside of a traditional framework of creative production and distribution. Kickstarter comes onto the scene after the proliferation of online social networking sites, through which bridging social capital ties are more easily maintained. This artic…
Victimhood in the Face of Media Ideological Battle
This article intends to reveal the power dimensions and ideological positions embedded in dominant media discourses. Informed by theories of media representation as well as those of colonialism and Orientalism, this article analyses eight articles from two British daily online news media sources, namely, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The methodological framework adopted draws on Fairclough's (1995) conception of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA…
Empirical analysis of tenants’ intention to exit public rental housing units based on the Theory of Planned Behavior – The case of Wuhan, China
Temporal dynamics in the daily lives of health practitioners
The working days of health practitioners are long and often hectic. This paper examines the minutiae of how health practitioners, particularly physicians and nurses, organize their time throughout the day. Through in-depth interviews of attending physicians, medical residents, and nursing staff at a major urban teaching hospital in California, I explore the daily dynamics of temporality within the lives of health practitioners, from the point of …
Indie Games in the Digital Age
A host of digital affordances, including reduced cost production tools, open distribution platforms, and ubiquitous connectivity, have engendered the growth of indie games among makers and users, forcing critics to reconsider the question of who makes games and why. Taking seriously this new mode of cultural production compels analysts to reconsider the blurred boundaries and relations of makers, users and texts as well as their respective relati…
FeministAntibodies
This article examines the tensions, communal processes, and narrative frameworks behind producing collective racial politics across differences. As digital media objects, the Asian American Feminist Collective's zine Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus and corresponding #FeministAntibodies Tweetchat responds directly to and anticipates a social media and information environment that has racialized COVID-19 in the l…
International Platforms, International Prejudice in the Platformization of Crafting
The platformization of crafting in an unequal world encourages discriminatory attitudes toward ethnic Others. Imagining that the 'magic circle' of a subcultural platform can insulate users from racism is deeply misguided. We examine this thesis through a mixed-methods approach combining an online survey assessing perceived experiences of racism online and willingness to communicate with people of different ethnicities, discourse analysis of craft…
Gist Inference Scores Predict Cloze Comprehension “In Your Own Words” for Native, Not ESL Readers
Three patient education texts from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) were subjected to a Coh-Metrix analysis, then further analyzed to obtain Gist Inference Scores (GIS), a new measure of the likelihood that readers will make appropriate inferences about a text's bottom-line meaning. In the GIS formula, the Coh-Metrix psycholinguistic variables referential cohesion, deep cohesion, and latent semantic analysis (LSA) verb overlap increase GIS bec…
Assessment of Environmental Demands of Age-Friendly Communities from Perspectives of Different Residential Groups
Age-friendly communities (AFCs) are an important measure for fostering active aging. The key to achieving an age-friendly living environment is to construct or renovate it according to the residents' demands. To date, very few studies have attempted to delve into the AFCs' environmental demand from different groups' perspectives. Based on the theory of place attachment, the aim of this paper is to explore the demand diversity of different groups …
Refined definition of level-of-detail for tree models in support of microclimate simulation
Urbanisation and global climate change are amplifying urban overheating, posing challenges to livability, health outcomes, and energy consumption in built environment. Increasing trees is a primary heat mitigation strategy, with landscape design assisted by microclimate simulations. However, currently the representation of trees in microclimate models, such as the widely used ENVI-met, often falls short in supporting this task, due to insufficien…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · China (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works)