3 papers
cs.SI2025
Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking
Wen Yang, Qiming Ye, Onur Ascigil +4
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of how diverse token-based reward mechanisms impact platform dynamics and user behaviors. For this, we gather a unique, large-scale…
cs.SI2024
Are There Echo Chambers in the US News Ecosystem? Evidence From Twitter/X
Wen Yang
This study investigates echo chambers in social networks through an analysis of Twitter news accounts. Utilizing bias labels from the AllSides website, we construct a dataset repre…
cs.SI2024
Information Cocoons on Social Media: Why and How Should the Government Regulate Algorithms
Wen Yang
Information cocoons are frequently cited in the literature on whether and how social media might lead to ideological segregation and political polarization. From the behavioural an…