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Psycho-linguistic differences among competing vaccination communities on social media
Jialiang Shi, Piyush Ghasiya, Kazutoshi Sasahara
Currently, the significance of social media in disseminating noteworthy information on topics such as health, politics, and the economy is indisputable. During the COVID-19 pandemi…
A network-based approach to QAnon user dynamics and topic diversity during the COVID-19 infodemic
Wentao Xu, Kazutoshi Sasahara
QAnon is an umbrella conspiracy theory that encompasses a wide spectrum of people. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped raise the QAnon conspiracy theory to a wide-spreading movement,…
Detecting directional forces in the evolution of grammar: A case study of the English perfect with intransitives across EEBO, COHA, and Google Books
Shimpei Okuda, Michio Hosaka, Kazutoshi Sasahara
Languages have diverse characteristics that have emerged through evolution. In modern English grammar, the perfect is formed with \textit{have}+PP (past participle), but in earlier…
Morality-based Assertion and Homophily on Social Media: A Cultural Comparison between English and Japanese Languages
Maneet Singh, Rishemjit Kaur, Akiko Matsuo +2
Moral psychology is a domain that deals with moral identity, appraisals and emotions. Previous work has primarily focused on moral development and the associated role of culture. K…
Characterizing the Anti-Vaxxers' Reply Behavior on Social Media
Kunihiro Miyazaki, Takayuki Uchiba, Kenji Tanaka +1
Although the online campaigns of anti-vaccine advocates, or anti-vaxxers, severely threaten efforts for herd immunity, their reply behavior--the form of directed messaging that can…