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Hi, I'm Morley

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Résumé

Work Experience

Doctoral candidate, lecturer
University of Zurich
2021 - 2025
Built out app, website, and data pipeline to track study participants’ mobile phone use for a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) project. Performed Bayesian statistical analysis and built data visualizations, published five articles in international Q1 journals. Developed multilingual text geoparsing tool which is currently used for consulting with cantons Zürich and Aargau.
Research assistant
National Taiwan University
2019 - 2021
Built and deployed web scrapers written in the Python and Go programming languages, Performed sentiment analysis, topic modeling and geoparsing on this data, resulting in one academic paper and one conference presentation.
International news editor, data journalist
The News Lens International
2016 - 2018
Produced data-driven stories, created maps and visualizations for digital publication, reported investigative news articles focusing on Taiwan affairs, and managed a network of freelance contributors.
Deputy editor
Myanmar Business Today
2014 - 2016
Led end-to-end production of investigative and explanatory news articles, and coordinated team of seven reporters in conjunction with editor-in-chief.

Education

Ph.D. Communication Science and Media Research
University of Zurich
2021 - present
M.Sc. Geography
National Taiwan University
2018 - 2021
B.A. Cultural Anthropology
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
2007 - 2011

Courses taught

Data Analysis and Visualization
University of Zurich
2024 - 2025
Multilingual Computational Methods for Text-based Media
University of Zurich
2023 - 2023
Culture, Nature and Society (Assistant instructor)
National Taiwan University
2019 - 2020

Skills

Python
R
Linux
SQL
Statistical analysis

Languages

English
(C2)
Mandarin Chinese
(B2 / C1)
German
(A2 / B1)

Academic Publications

  • Weston, M, Vogler, D., Jürgens, P., Rauchfleisch, A., & Eisenegger, M. (2025). Days, schedules, and attention: How time affects mobile news consumption among young Swiss people. Mobile Media and Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579251376418
  • Weston, M, Vogler, D., Jürgens, P., Rauchfleisch, A., & Eisenegger, M. (2025). Tracking the roots of low news usage on smartphones: Do individual interests, political attitudes, and media consumption habits affect the mobile news use of young adults? Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2025.2535389
  • Udris, L., Vogler, D., Weston, M, & Eisenegger, M. (2023). Sourcing practices of online news media in Switzerland during the war in Ukraine. Frontiers in Political Science, 5(1089994). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1089994
  • Vogler, D., & Weston, M. (2023). Investigating news deserts on the content level: Geographical diversity in Swiss news media. Media and Communication, 11(3), 343–354. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i3.6794 https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2025.2535389
  • Vogler, D., Weston, M, Ryffel, Q., Rauchfleisch, A., Jürgens, P., Eisenegger, M., Schwaiger, L., & Christen, U. (2023). Mobile news consumption and its relation to young adults’ knowledge about and participation in referendums. Media and Communication, 11(1), 6–18. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6029
  • Weston, M, & Rauchfleisch, A. (2021). Close to Beijing: Geographic biases in People’s Daily. Media and Communication, 9(3), 59–73. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i3.3966

Presentations

  • Weston, M, Vogler, D., Rauchfleisch, A., Jürgens, P., & Eisenegger, M. (2025, June 12–16). Tracking the roots of low news usage on smartphones: Do individual interests, political attitudes, and media consumption habits affect mobile news use of young adults?. The 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, United States.
  • Weston, M, & Mpadanes, M. (2024, May 2–4). Real-time tracking of the influence of press releases on news media. 6th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Weston, M, Eisenegger, M., Jürgens, P., Rauchfleisch, A., Ryffel, Q., & Vogler, D. (2023, May 25). Situational and temporal media use and avoidance as seen through mobile tracking data. The 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference: News avoidance, Resistance, and Related Audience Practices, Toronto, Canada.
  • Eisenegger, M., Siegen, D., Udris, L., Vogler, D., & Weston, M. (2022, May 26–30). International news from two perspectives: An explorative analysis on the quality of media coverage of world regions and countries in different media types in Switzerland. The 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.
  • Rauchfleisch, A., Weston, M, Sie, L. (2022, May 26–30). Engagement and Changes in Taiwan’s Diverse Fact-Checking Operations. The 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.
  • Weston, M. (2019, August 27–30). Online news media and rural Indonesia: A quantitative look at media’s coverage of rural regions. Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London, United Kingdom.
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