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Cats and Captions vs. Creators and the Clock: Comparing Multimodal Content to Context in Predicting Relative Popularity
Jack Hessel, Lillian Lee, David Mimno
The content of today's social media is becoming more and more rich, increasingly mixing text, images, videos, and audio. It is an intriguing research question to model the interpla…
Science, AskScience, and BadScience: On the Coexistence of Highly Related Communities
Jack Hessel, Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee
When large social-media platforms allow users to easily form and self-organize into interest groups, highly related communities can arise. For example, the Reddit site hosts not ju…
Talk it up or play it down? (Un)expected correlations between (de-)emphasis and recurrence of discussion points in consequential U.S. economic policy meetings
Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee
In meetings where important decisions get made, what items receive more attention may influence the outcome. We examine how different types of rhetorical (de-)emphasis -- including…
Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions
Chenhao Tan, Vlad Niculae, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +1
Changing someone's opinion is arguably one of the most important challenges of social interaction. The underlying process proves difficult to study: it is hard to know how someone'…
All Who Wander: On the Prevalence and Characteristics of Multi-community Engagement
Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee
Although analyzing user behavior within individual communities is an active and rich research domain, people usually interact with multiple communities both on- and off-line. How d…
The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter
Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, Bo Pang
Consider a person trying to spread an important message on a social network. He/she can spend hours trying to craft the message. Does it actually matter? While there has been exten…