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Public Opinion on AI Technology
How do people feel about AI technology? What topics do people discuss regarding the technology? With my collaborators in US, Singapore, and South Korea, I investigated these questions based on a large-scale dataset collected from Twitter and computational text analysis methods. Here is our preprint.
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Stanford Cyber Policy Center talk – October 12
Here is supplementary information
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Racial justice movement in the digital era
How prevalent are racist groups on Facebook? How could the Black Lives Matter movement connect and mobilize a huge number of actors and spread their messages throughout the digital space? In a project with my amazing collaborator, Ashely Lee at Stanford, I’m investigating the social dynamics of the BLM movement and its counter-movements, such as…
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Global expansion of U.S. social networks: The case of Facebook’s Freebasic service
In the Global South, Facebook is the internet
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Anti-vaccine on Facebook: who, what, how?
How serious is the status of vaccine hesitancy and denialism on social media? Who’s promoting anti-vaccine content? How? What is spreading? In this research project, my coauthor and I are investigating anti-vaccine and pro-vaccine pages on Facebook. Based on a large-scale Facebook data collected with a novel data collection method we have developed, we are…
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Social media and the pandemic: How people discuss COVID-19 on Twitter?
In this new working paper, we examined how media presented COVID-19 cognitively and emotionally in its initial stageusing computational methods.
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Conspiracy theory on Facebook: How QAnon spread on the world’s largest social media?
We found significant “platform-level balkanization” among QAnon groups on Facebook
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Dissertation – Intergroup Dynamics of Information Processing in Social Networks
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Social segregation and misinformation
Do network structures affect the way we interpret and share information?