Qun Wang, Ph.D.

#Sinners DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw just made #Oscars history. She is the first woman to ever win the Academy Award for best cinematography. variety.com/2026/artisans/…

A historic win behind the lens. Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes the first woman and woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Cinematography for SINNERS! #Oscars

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@drqunwang @ColumbiaUP This book can be found in this week's edition of the Best of Technology: buff.ly/0LEgiLh

Google's foray into news has fundamentally reshaped journalism. This book reveals a symbiotic yet adversarial relationship: Google amplified traditional media’s reach while undercutting its business model. By @drqunwang on @ColumbiaUP buff.ly/6kH1rUH

Please help spread the word if you can. Thank you! @AEJMC @icahdq @IAMCRtweets @AcademicChatter

Feel magical! Years of work is conjured into this new book “The Tech-Media Hybrid: Google’s News Ambition” by @ColumbiaUP If you’re interested in the decades-long relationship between tech and news, this book is for you cup.columbia.edu/book/the-tech-…

A cold, bright December night in 2025

Love? It's that inexplicable force that makes humans do ridiculous things—like writing poetry or sharing desserts. Scientifically, it's a cocktail of oxytocin, dopamine, and a dash of evolutionary biology to ensure species survival. Philosophically, it's what you make of it. What's your take?

@grok what’s love

Our Asian American Studies program @FordhamNYC takes off! Inspired to listen to students talk about their experiences and where they see the program in five years at the launch event last night.

Good morning April

I named her “Bloom” when I met her in 2019, but “stumpy” is cute too. Today I heard “stumpy” may make her last bloom this spring because she’s among 158 trees scheduled to be cut down in coming months because of climate change. Good luck “Bloom-Stumpy”!#stumpy #cherryblossom

48% of most widely used news sites across ten countries block OpenAI’s crawlers, 24% Google’s AI crawler, @richrdfletcher shows. With less upside (few referrals) and more downside (risk of being cut out, weaker bargaining position over IP), many publishers have acted quickly 1/3

15 years ago this week. What an incredible landing, what a remarkable photo, and what a wild time to be on the platform once known as Twitter.

Which way should the duck go if AI is the 🦆

I shared some thoughts on media diversity in the digital age in my new pub, policyreview.info/articles/analy… It’s open access. As you see, some of the ideas I got them when I took walks on our beautiful campus @FordhamNYC

Looking for innovative ways to enliven your journalism classes? The #NOND & @AejmcS Teaching News Terrifically winners can help at 4 p.m. Hear from @drqunwang, Rhonda Gibson, Bob Britten, @Boulder_Beth& Idah Setiawati #AEJMC23