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Monitoring Depression Trend on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yipeng Zhang, Hanjia Lyu, Yubao Liu +3
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected people's daily lives and caused tremendous economic loss worldwide. However, its influence on people's mental health conditions has not…
The Ivory Tower Lost: How College Students Respond Differently than the General Public to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Viet Duong, Phu Pham, Tongyu Yang +2
Recently, the pandemic of the novel Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has presented governments with ultimate challenges. In the United States, the country with the highest confi…
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Analyzing Social Media Use of Neutral and Controversial Terms for COVID-19
Long Chen, Hanjia Lyu, Tongyu Yang +2
During the COVID-19 pandemic, "Chinese Virus" emerged as a controversial term for coronavirus. To some, it may seem like a neutral term referring to the physical origin of the viru…
When Celebrities Endorse Politicians: Analyzing the Behavior of Celebrity Followers in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Yu Wang, Jiebo Luo
Thanks to their name recognition and popularity, celebrities play an important role in American politics. Celebrity endorsements could add to the momentum of a politician's campaig…
How Polarized Have We Become? A Multimodal Classification of Trump Followers and Clinton Followers
Yu Wang, Yang Feng, Zhe Hong +2
Polarization in American politics has been extensively documented and analyzed for decades, and the phenomenon became all the more apparent during the 2016 presidential election, w…
When Follow is Just One Click Away: Understanding Twitter Follow Behavior in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Yu Wang, Xiyang Zhang, Jiebo Luo
Motivated by the two paradoxical facts that the marginal cost of following one extra candidate is close to zero and that the majority of Twitter users choose to follow only one or…