The Many Dimensions of Political Discourse on Taiwan among Chinese netizens: an analysis of 20 million Weibo posts Huan-Kai Tseng, Osbern Huang, Waybe Lee and Yu-tzung Chang (National Taiwan University) Abstract: Can microblog data be a useful substitute for internet poll to gauge public... Read More The Many Dimensions of Political Discourse on Taiwan among Chinese netizens: an analysis of 20 million Weibo posts
Finding Social Media Trolls: Dynamic Keyword Selection Methods for Rapidly Evolving Online Debates Maya Srikanth, Anqi Liu, Nicholas Adams-Cohen, Anima Anandkumar and R. Michael Alvarez (California Institute of Technology) Abstract: Online harassment is a significant social problem... Read More Finding Social Media Trolls: Dynamic Keyword Selection Methods for Rapidly Evolving Online Debates
Who Do You Think You’re Fooling? Examining the Internal Russian Disinformation Campaign Sean Norton (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Abstract: While an extensive literature in both the academic and popular presses has examined the Russian state’s use of... Read More Who Do You Think You’re Fooling? Examining the Internal Russian Disinformation Campaign
The Spread of Promotion of Political Violence on Twitter Taegyoon Kim (Pennsylvania State University) Abstract: Although social media contribute to political participation by enabling citizens to freely express and exchange political... Read More The Spread of Promotion of Political Violence on Twitter
Targeting and the Timing of Online Censorship: The Case of Venezuela Ishita Gopal (Pennsylvania State University) Abstract: In this paper I advance a theory to explain the timing of internet censorship in authoritarian regimes. Censorship as a means... Read More Targeting and the Timing of Online Censorship: The Case of Venezuela
Learning From Likes: The Effect of Social Engagement Feedback on Politicians' Social Media Communications Ryden Butler (Washington University in St. Louis) Abstract: Considerable research indicates that politicians adapt their rhetoric in order to appeal to the preferences of their... Read More Learning From Likes: The Effect of Social Engagement Feedback on Politicians' Social Media Communications
Friend or Faux: Social Network-Based Early Detection of Fake User Accounts on Facebook Adam Breuer (Harvard University), R. Eilat (Facebook Research), U. Weinsberg (Facebook Research) Abstract: In 2019 alone, Facebook disabled over 6 billion fake user accounts. While... Read More Friend or Faux: Social Network-Based Early Detection of Fake User Accounts on Facebook