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20202026
most citedUsing Reports of Own and Others' Symptoms and Diagnosis on Social Media to Predict COVID-19 Case Counts: Observational Infoveillance Study in Mainland China

132 citations · 144 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.SI2026

Gendered Pixels: Exploring Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Self-Presentation among Douyu Live Streamers

Mengxiao Zhu, Xiyue Wang, Chunke Su +2

Live streaming platforms, as computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems, provide streamers with a range of tools, such as webcams, beauty filters, and stream titles, to shape th…

cs.HC2026

Closing the Motivation Gap: Incentives Enhance Visual Misinformation Discernment and Verification

Sijia Qian, Cuihua Shen, Jingwen Zhang +1

Cheapfakes, or real images presented misleadingly or in unrelated contexts, are an increasingly prominent form of visual misinformation. While media literacy interventions can enha…

cs.CY2026

Building Resilience to Misinformation: A Cross-National Development of the Digital Media and Information Literacy Scale (DMILS)

Sijia Qian, Cuihua Shen, Huiyi Wang +1

Amid growing concern about information quality and credibility in digital media environments, researchers and educators still lack a concise, comprehensive yet psychometrically sou…

cs.SI2022

Social Live-Streaming Use & Well-being: Examining Participation, Financial Commitment, Social Capital, and Psychological Well-being on Twitch.tv

Grace H. Wolff, Cuihua Shen

This study examines how active participation, financial commitment, and passive participation in the leading social live-streaming service, Twitch.tv, relate to individuals' psycho…

cs.SI2021★ 9 cited

This photograph has been altered: Testing the effectiveness of image forensic labeling on news image credibility

Cuihua Shen, Mona Kasra, James O'Brien

Despite the ubiquity and proliferation of images and videos in online news environments, much of the existing research on misinformation and its correction is solely focused on tex…

cs.SI2020★ 3 cited

Conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origination on Chinese social media: How it started and who is to blame

Kaiping Chen, Anfan Chen, Jingwen Zhang +2

This paper studies conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origination on a major Chinese social media platform, Weibo, from January to April 2020. Popular conspiracies…

cs.SI2020★ 132 cited

Using Reports of Own and Others' Symptoms and Diagnosis on Social Media to Predict COVID-19 Case Counts: Observational Infoveillance Study in Mainland China

Cuihua Shen, Anfan Chen, Chen Luo +3

Can public social media data be harnessed to predict COVID-19 case counts? We analyzed approximately 15 million COVID-19 related posts on Weibo, a popular Twitter-like social media…