Author: Shijin Huang

The isolating web: Do filter bubbles narrow down our mind?

In today’s digital media era, people use social media so frequently in their daily life. Traditional media are declining in their gatekeeping role to determine the agenda and select which issues and viewpoints reach their audiences (Bruns, 2011). Apparently, instead of scanning news on traditional media such as newspaper and television, currently internet users have […]

Do social media influence citizens’ political participation?

It is a pervasive phenomenon that nowadays people use various technological tools such as TV sets, laptops and mobile phones, to engage with media and political content. Chadwick et al defined dual screening as “the bundle of practices that involves integrating and switching across and between, live broadcast media and social media” (Vaccari, Chadwick, & […]

Analysis of Twitter network: Brand Cluster & Broadcast Network

In the NodeXL graph gallery, various graphs convey a lot of information, not only the size and structure of the network, but also the words, hashtags, and URLs people used. The graph below represents a network of 5,181 Twitter users whose tweets in the requested range contained “Toyota,” or who were replied to mentioned in […]