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Clay Fink
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 11
Citations - 289
Clay Fink is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Complex contagion. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 10 publications receiving 251 citations. Previous affiliations of Clay Fink include University of Maryland, College Park & Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Emoticon Style: Interpreting Differences in Emoticons Across Cultures
TL;DR: This paper investigates the semantic, cultural, and social aspects of emoticon usage on Twitter and shows that emoticons are not limited to conveying a specific emotion or used as jokes, but rather are socio-cultural norms, whose meaning can vary depending on the identity of the speaker.
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Complex contagions and the diffusion of popular Twitter hashtags in Nigeria
TL;DR: It is found that hashtags related to Nigerian sociopolitical issues, including the #bringbackourgirls hashtag, are more likely to be adopted among densely connected users with multiple network neighbors who have also adopted the hashtag, compared to mainstream news hashtags.
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Twitter, Public Opinion, and the 2011 Nigerian Presidential Election
TL;DR: It was found that counts of the mentions on Twitter of the two major candidates correlated strongly with polling and election results when compared across the country's geopolitical regions, though the same data over represented two other candidates who did not fare as well in the polls or at the ballot box.
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Investigating the Observability of Complex Contagion in Empirical Social Networks.
TL;DR: This work shows an alternative method for fitting probabilistic complex contagion models to empirical data that avoids measuring thresholds directly, and results indicate bias in observed thresholds under both complex and simple models.
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“With Your Help... We Begin to Heal”: Social Media Expressions of Gratitude in the Aftermath of Disaster
Kimberly Glasgow,Kimberly Glasgow,Jessica Vitak,Jessica Vitak,Yla R. Tausczik,Yla R. Tausczik,Clay Fink,Clay Fink +7 more
TL;DR: Findings offer ways for social media – as a window into real-time community behaviors relating to response and healing after disaster – to contribute to the provision of mental health resources and monitoring community resilience and recovery.