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16 papers
Socially-Informed Content Analysis of Online Human Behavior
Julie Jiang
The explosive growth of social media has not only revolutionized communication but also brought challenges such as political polarization, misinformation, hate speech, and echo cha…
The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence
Luca Luceri, Jinyi Ye, Julie Jiang +1
Understanding susceptibility to online influence is crucial for mitigating the spread of misinformation and protecting vulnerable audiences. This paper investigates susceptibility…
Moral Values Underpinning COVID-19 Online Communication Patterns
Julie Jiang, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered profound societal changes, extending beyond its health impacts to the moralization of behaviors. Leveraging insights from moral psychology, this…
Social-LLM: Modeling User Behavior at Scale using Language Models and Social Network Data
Julie Jiang, Emilio Ferrara
The proliferation of social network data has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for extensive, data-driven exploration of human behavior. The structural intricacies of social net…
Susceptibility to Unreliable Information Sources: Swift Adoption with Minimal Exposure
Jinyi Ye, Luca Luceri, Julie Jiang +1
Misinformation proliferation on social media platforms is a pervasive threat to the integrity of online public discourse. Genuine users, susceptible to others' influence, often unk…
Social Approval and Network Homophily as Motivators of Online Toxicity
Julie Jiang, Luca Luceri, Joseph B. Walther +1
Online hate messaging is a pervasive issue plaguing the well-being of social media users. This research empirically investigates a novel theory positing that online hate may be dri…
Non-Binary Gender Expression in Online Interactions
Rebecca Dorn, Negar Mokhberian, Julie Jiang +3
Many openly non-binary gender individuals participate in social networks. However, the relationship between gender and online interactions is not well understood, which may result…
Reciprocity, Homophily, and Social Network Effects in Pictorial Communication: A Case Study of Bitmoji Stickers
Julie Jiang, Ron Dotsch, Mireia Triguero Roura +4
Pictorial emojis and stickers are commonly used in online social networking to facilitate and aid communications. We delve into the use of Bitmoji stickers, a highly expressive for…
What are Your Pronouns? Examining Gender Pronoun Usage on Twitter
Julie Jiang, Emily Chen, Luca Luceri +4
Stating your gender pronouns, along with your name, is becoming the new norm of self-introductions at school, at the workplace, and online. The increasing prevalence and awareness…
Geolocated Social Media Posts are Happier: Understanding the Characteristics of Check-in Posts on Twitter
Julie Jiang, Jesse Thomason, Francesco Barbieri +1
The increasing prevalence of location-sharing features on social media has enabled researchers to ground computational social science research using geolocated data, affording oppo…
The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Generosity is Contagious in Multiplayer Online Games
Alexander J. Bisberg, Julie Jiang, Yilei Zeng +2
Understanding social interactions and generous behaviors have long been of considerable interest in the social science community. While the contagion of generosity is documented in…
Retweet-BERT: Political Leaning Detection Using Language Features and Information Diffusion on Social Networks
Julie Jiang, Xiang Ren, Emilio Ferrara
Estimating the political leanings of social media users is a challenging and ever more pressing problem given the increase in social media consumption. We introduce Retweet-BERT, a…
Zero-shot meta-learning for small-scale data from human subjects
Julie Jiang, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara
While developments in machine learning led to impressive performance gains on big data, many human subjects data are, in actuality, small and sparsely labeled. Existing methods app…
Heterogeneous Effects of Software Patches in a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Game
Yuzi He, Christopher Tran, Julie Jiang +4
The popularity of online gaming has grown dramatically, driven in part by streaming and the billion-dollar e-sports industry. Online games regularly update their software to fix bu…
Social Media Polarization and Echo Chambers in the Context of COVID-19: Case Study
Julie Jiang, Xiang Ren, Emilio Ferrara
Background: Social media chatter in 2020 has been largely dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing research shows that COVID-19 discourse is highly politicized, with political…
Individualized Context-Aware Tensor Factorization for Online Games Predictions
Julie Jiang, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara
Individual behavior and decisions are substantially influenced by their contexts, such as location, environment, and time. Changes along these dimensions can be readily observed in…