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Algorithmic Bias and Racial Identity
In a project with my brilliant collaborator, Joomi Lee at University of Georgia, I’m investigating how social identities affect the perception of algorithms, algorithmic decision making, and algorithmic bias. Please check out our new preprint below
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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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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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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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Inspiring scholars
I’ve been collecting talks, interviews, and lectures of inspiring scholars in social sciences, engineering, and natural sciences. The following are Youtube playlists I’ve been maintaining. Check these out! Susan Athey, Stanford Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Harvard David Rand, MIT Robb Willer, Stanford Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford Betsy Levy Paluck, Princeton Molly Crockett, Yale Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania…