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cs.SI2021
Sentinel node approach to monitoring online COVID-19 misinformation
Matthew T. Osborne, Samuel S. Malloy, Erik C. Nisbet +2
Understanding how different online communities engage with COVID-19 misinformation is critical for public health response, as misinformation confined to a small, isolated community…
cs.SI2021
An adaptation of InfoMap to absorbing random walks using absorption-scaled graphs
Esteban Vargas Bernal, Mason A. Porter, Joseph H. Tien
InfoMap is a popular approach to detect densely connected "communities" of nodes in networks. To detect such communities, InfoMap uses random walks and ideas from information theor…
cs.SI2019
Online reactions to the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville: Measuring polarization in Twitter networks using media followership
Joseph H. Tien, Marisa C. Eisenberg, Sarah T. Cherng +1
We study the Twitter conversation following the August 2017 `Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, using tools from network analysis and data science. We use media f…