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Moral and emotional influences on attitude stability towards COVID-19 vaccines on social media
Samantha C. Phillips, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou +1
Effective public health messaging benefits from understanding antecedents to unstable attitudes that are more likely to be influenced. This work investigates the relationship betwe…
Examining the Influence of Political Bias on Large Language Model Performance in Stance Classification
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Iain Cruickshank, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in executing tasks based on natural language queries. However, these models, trained on curated datasets, inh…
Blended Bots: Infiltration through Identity Deception on Social Media
Samantha C. Phillips, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Bots are automated social media users that can be used to amplify (mis)information and sow harmful discourse. In order to effectively influence users, bots can be generated to repr…
Automated versus Human Engagement: Mapping Cognitive Bias Triggers in Online Discourse
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
In the digital environment, human attention is frequently guided by cognitive heuristics rather than deliberate evaluation. Since low-credibility narratives often lack substantive…
SMI-5: Five Dimensions of Social Media Interaction for Platform (De)Centralization
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Samantha C. Phillips, Kathleen M. Carley
Web 3.0 focuses on the decentralization of the internet and creating a system of interconnected and independent computers for improved privacy and security. We extend the idea of t…
DIVERSE: A Dataset of YouTube Video Comment Stances with a Data Programming Model
Iain J. Cruickshank, Amir Soofi, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng
Public opinion of military organizations significantly influences their ability to recruit talented individuals. As recruitment efforts increasingly extend into digital spaces like…
An Exploratory Analysis of COVID Bot vs Human Disinformation Dissemination stemming from the Disinformation Dozen on Telegram
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Ian Kloo, Kathleen M. Carley
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2021 led to a worldwide health crisis that was accompanied by an infodemic. A group of 12 social media personalities, dubbed the ``Disinformation Dozen", w…
Cyborgs for strategic communication on social media
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Dawn C. Robertson, Kathleen M. Carley
Social media platforms are a key ground of information consumption and dissemination. Key figures like politicians, celebrities and activists have leveraged on its wide user base f…
Reverse Projection: Real-Time Local Space Texture Mapping
Adrian Xuan Wei Lim, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Conor Griffin +2
We present Reverse Projection, a novel projective texture mapping technique for painting a decal directly to the texture of a 3D object. Designed to be used in games, this techniqu…
Deflating the Chinese Balloon: Types of Twitter Bots in US-China balloon incident
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
As digitalization increases, countries employ digital diplomacy, harnessing digital resources to project their desired image. Digital diplomacy also encompasses the interactivity o…
Assembling a Multi-Platform Ensemble Social Bot Detector with Applications to US 2020 Elections
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Bots have been in the spotlight for many social media studies, for they have been observed to be participating in the manipulation of information and opinions on social media. Thes…