Author: Yige Wan

Filter Bubbles, Polarization and Fake News—How Social Media Behaviors Influence People’s Political Decisions

The relationship between social media usage, and populism & polarization in politics is a complex issue which needs to be studied and understood. Undoubtedly, social media make influence on people’s political decisions through media filter bubbles, and even fake news. In Chadwick’s Chapter 10, Chadwick shared two stories or problems happened during the 2016 U.S. […]

Assignment 5: Does Infomediation and Vertical Integration Shape Network Types?

Name: Yige (Will) Wan Class: EM 797 Date: 10/16/2018 The graph I chose represents a network of 1,877 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained “#AoIR2018 OR #AoIR18”, or who were replied to or mentioned in those tweets, taken from a data set limited to a maximum of 18,000 tweets. The network was obtained from Twitter […]