2 papers
cs.SI2024
Quantifying Influencer Impact on Affective Polarization
Rezaur Rashid, Joshua Melton, Ouldouz Ghorbani +3
In today's digital age, social media platforms play a crucial role in shaping public opinion. This study explores how discussions led by influencers on Twitter, now known as 'X', a…
cs.LG2024
Two-Stage Stance Labeling: User-Hashtag Heuristics with Graph Neural Networks
Joshua Melton, Shannon Reid, Gabriel Terejanu +1
The high volume and rapid evolution of content on social media present major challenges for studying the stance of social media users. In this work, we develop a two stage stance l…