Author: Xinyi Tan

Social Media: New Battlefield with Hate Speech as Weapons

Hate speech never comes with harbinger. It is the statements that “attack or delegitimize” particular individuals on social media platforms (Schofield and Davidson, 2017). We can tell how powerful hate speech is – it can destruct people’s life when some of them get depressed and some suicided because of these words online. Moreover, hate speech […]

Network Analysis: Event and Media Service

https://nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Graph.aspx?graphID=117855 According to Smith et al.’s finding, the “Comic_Con” graph has a structure of Brand Clusters. As we can see from the graph, 5,606 Twitter users who tweeted about “Comic_Con” formed different small-sized subgroups. The users shown in this figure don’t follow or directly reply to or mention other users who also tweeted about the […]

From Evolution to Revolution: Camera as New Vision

In early process, humans eyes evolved from mere sensors, called “eyespots”, on unicellular organisms (Land & Fernald, 1992). Eyespots could only sense the brightness at the beginning, and after years of evolution the “sensor” upgraded to distinguish the shape, the color, and then the shades and all the details of the objects in the world […]