First of all, I am glad to be able to live to this Fall 2023.
Summer was crazy for I entered end-stage heart failure and had to have a heart transplant to live.
I began this new life with my thesis proposal, telling the world and my committee members on
everything I had done in my previous life, and what I will do in my new life. Details and the slides here.
Hit me up if there's anything interesting to you that you want to talk about or collaborate!
Do you Hear the People Sing? Comparison of Synchronized URL and Narrative Themes in 2020 and 2023 French Protests
This is a special piece. It was conceptualized, ran computationally, and written all while I was waiting in the hospital for a heart. It was accepted just a few days post-transplant and published soon after, even before I had the ability to walk beyond the house. I meant it to be the last piece I put out in the world, if it comes to that. But it looks like I will be putting out more stories for all of you to read.
In this piece, we studied the differences in synchronization, and therefore, coordination between URL and narratives within the french protests of two eras.
Read it here!
It Takes Two to Negotiate: Modeling Social Exchange in Online Multiplayer Games
This piece was done in collaboration with the amazing Kokil Jaidka and Hansin Ahuja.
It is accepted into CSCW 2024.
It describes our approach to annotating the Shared Task on Diplomacy, a part of the AffCon Workshop in AAAI2021.
Within this, we characterize negotiation strategies with linguistic features, trustworthiness and predicting their success in the game.
Read it here!
Tracking China’s Cross-Strait Bot Networks Against Taiwan.
This piece was done in collaboration with my bestie Charity Jacobs who never fails to feed me soup and korean food when I'm sick
It was accepted into SBP-Brims 2024.
We found cool social media bot communities, made of Repeater Bots and Amplifier Bots (Core, Peripheral) that use influence tactics to spread propaganda regarding China/Taiwan
Read it here!
Recruitment promotion via Twitter: A network-centric approach of analyzing community engagement using social identity.
This piece was done in collaboration with the Iain Cruickshank who adopted me when he was a senior and me a fresh PhD student, and never gave up on me since.
It was accepted into ACM Digital Government and Practice.
We parse the user names and descriptions of Twitter users and grab out their identities, then profile which identity type is likely to retweet certain themes, in a measure of how effective recruitment is.
Read it here!