4 papers
Spatial Games of Fake News
Matthew I Jones, Scott D. Pauls, Feng Fu
To curb the spread of fake news on social media platforms, recent studies have considered an online crowdsourcing fact-checking approach as one possible intervention method to redu…
Polarization, Abstention, and the Median Voter Theorem
Matthew I. Jones, Antonio D. Sirianni, Feng Fu
The median voter theorem has long been the default model of voter behavior and candidate choice. While contemporary work on the distribution of political opinion has emphasized pol…
Asymmetric Partisan Voter Turnout Games
Cameron Guage, Feng Fu
Since Downs proposed that the act of voting is irrational in 1957, myriad models have been proposed to explain voting and account for observed turnout patterns. We propose a model…
Sentiment-Based Prediction of Alternative Cryptocurrency Price Fluctuations Using Gradient Boosting Tree Model
Tianyu Ray Li, Anup S. Chamrajnagar, Xander R. Fong +2
In this paper, we analyze Twitter signals as a medium for user sentiment to predict the price fluctuations of a small-cap alternative cryptocurrency called \emph{ZClassic}. We extr…