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In the Eyes of the Bystander: Are the Stances on Different Conflicts Correlated?
Yiyao Tao, Hengyu Zhang, Babli Dey +3
Public opinion on international conflicts, such as the concurrent Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine crises, often reflects a society's values, beliefs, and history. These simulta…
Excitements and Concerns in the Post-ChatGPT Era: Deciphering Public Perception of AI through Social Media Analysis
Weihong Qi, Jinsheng Pan, Hanjia Lyu +1
As AI systems become increasingly prevalent in various aspects of daily life, gaining a comprehensive understanding of public perception towards these AI systems has become increas…
Dismantling Hate: Understanding Hate Speech Trends Against NBA Athletes
Edinam Kofi Klutse, Samuel Nuamah-Amoabeng, Hanjia Lyu +1
Social media has emerged as a popular platform for sports fans to express their opinions regarding athletes' performance. Fans consistently hold high expectations for athletes, ant…
Doctors vs. Nurses: Understanding the Great Divide in Vaccine Hesitancy among Healthcare Workers
Sajid Hussain Rafi Ahamed, Shahid Shakil, Hanjia Lyu +2
Healthcare workers such as doctors and nurses are expected to be trustworthy and creditable sources of vaccine-related information. Their opinions toward the COVID-19 vaccines may…
Taking sides: Public Opinion over the Israel-Palestine Conflict in 2021
Arsal Imtiaz, Danish Khan, Hanjia Lyu +1
The Israel-Palestine Conflict, one of the most enduring conflicts in history, dates back to the start of 20th century, with the establishment of the British Mandate in Palestine an…
Understanding Political Polarization via Jointly Modeling Users, Connections and Multimodal Contents on Heterogeneous Graphs
Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
Understanding political polarization on social platforms is important as public opinions may become increasingly extreme when they are circulated in homogeneous communities, thus p…
A Fine-Grained Analysis of Public Opinion toward Chinese Technology Companies on Reddit
Enting Zhou, Yurong Liu, Hanjia Lyu +1
In the face of the growing global influence and prevalence of Chinese technology companies, governments worldwide have expressed concern and mistrust toward these companies. There…
Look behind the Censorship: Reposting-User Characterization and Muted-Topic Restoration
Yichi Qian, Qiyi Shan, Hanjia Lyu +1
The emergence of social media has largely eased the way people receive information and participate in public discussions. However, in countries with strict regulations on discussio…
American Twitter Users Revealed Social Determinants-related Oral Health Disparities amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yangxin Fan, Hanjia Lyu, Jin Xiao +1
Objectives: To assess self-reported population oral health conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic using user reports on Twitter. Method and Material: We collected oral health-related tw…
Misinformation versus Facts: Understanding the Influence of News Regarding COVID-19 Vaccines on Vaccine Uptake
Hanjia Lyu, Zihe Zheng, Jiebo Luo
There is a lot of fact-based information and misinformation in the online discourses and discussions about the COVID-19 vaccines. Using a sample of nearly four million geotagged En…
State-level Racially Motivated Hate Crimes Contrast Public Opinion on the #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate Movement
Hanjia Lyu, Yangxin Fan, Ziyu Xiong +2
#StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate are two of the most commonly used hashtags that represent the current movement to end hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander c…
Understanding Patterns of Users Who Repost Censored Posts on Weibo
Yichi Qian, Feng Yuan, Hanjia Lyu +1
In this study, we focus on understanding patterns of users whose repost contents would later be censored on Weibo, a counterpart of Twitter in China as a social media platform. Lit…
Observational Study of Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Social Media Data
Ziyu Xiong, Pin Li, Hanjia Lyu +1
Since March 2020, companies nationwide have started work from home (WFH) due to the rapid increase of confirmed COVID-19 cases in an attempt to help prevent the coronavirus from sp…
Characterizing Discourse about COVID-19 Vaccines: A Reddit Version of the Pandemic Story
Wei Wu, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
It has been one year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news is that vaccines developed by several manufacturers are being actively distributed worldwide. Howeve…
Social Media Study of Public Opinions on Potential COVID-19 Vaccines: Informing Dissent, Disparities, and Dissemination
Hanjia Lyu, Junda Wang, Wei Wu +4
The current development of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 is unprecedented. Little is known, however, about the nuanced public opinions on the vaccines on social media. We adopt a human-g…
Understanding the Hoarding Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic using Large Scale Social Media Data
Xupin Zhang, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's lives around the world on an unprecedented scale. We intend to investigate hoarding behaviors in response to the pandemic using large-sc…
How Political is the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States? An Analysis using Transportation and Weather Data
Karan Vombatkere, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
We investigate the difference in the spread of COVID-19 between the states won by Donald Trump (Red) and the states won by Hillary Clinton (Blue) in the 2016 presidential election,…
Monitoring Depression Trend on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yipeng Zhang, Hanjia Lyu, Yubao Liu +3
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected people's daily lives and caused tremendous economic loss worldwide. However, its influence on people's mental health conditions has not…
Sense and Sensibility: Characterizing Social Media Users Regarding the Use of Controversial Terms for COVID-19
Hanjia Lyu, Long Chen, Yu Wang +1
With the world-wide development of 2019 novel coronavirus, although WHO has officially announced the disease as COVID-19, one controversial term - "Chinese Virus" is still being us…
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Analyzing Social Media Use of Neutral and Controversial Terms for COVID-19
Long Chen, Hanjia Lyu, Tongyu Yang +2
During the COVID-19 pandemic, "Chinese Virus" emerged as a controversial term for coronavirus. To some, it may seem like a neutral term referring to the physical origin of the viru…
What Contributes to a Crowdfunding Campaign's Success? Evidence and Analyses from GoFundMe Data
Xupin Zhang, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
Researchers have attempted to measure the success of crowdfunding campaigns using a variety of determinants, such as the descriptions of the crowdfunding campaigns, the amount of f…