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Yafei Zhang
Researcher at City University of Hong Kong
Publications - 9
Citations - 28
Yafei Zhang is an academic researcher from City University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social influence & Misinformation. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 9 publications receiving 13 citations. Previous affiliations of Yafei Zhang include Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Conspiracy vs Science: A Large-scale Analysis of Online Discussion Cascades
TL;DR: This study investigates the propagation of two distinct narratives– conspiracy information and scientific information, and finds that conspiracy cascades tend to propagate in a multigenerational branching process whereas science cascades are more likely to grow in a breadth-first manner.
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Segmenting and Characterizing Adopters of E-Books and Paper Books Based on Amazon Book Reviews
TL;DR: This paper identifies four categories of book consumers and proposes a behavior-to-opinion approach, in which users are first categorized based on some unambiguous behavioral patterns and their online reviews are then classified to reveal unique and detailed characteristics of each user category.
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Go viral or go broadcast? Characterizing the virality and growth of cascades.
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a root-aware approach to quantifying the virality of cascades with proper consideration of the root node in a diffusion tree, which enables the interpolation between broadcast and viral spreading during the growth of growing cascades.
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Viral vs. broadcast: Characterizing the virality and growth of cascades
TL;DR: A root-aware approach to quantifying the virality of cascades with proper consideration of the root node in a diffusion tree is proposed and a model to mimic the growth of cascade growth is introduced.
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The Strength of Structural Diversity in Online Social Networks.
TL;DR: In this paper, the structural diversity of an individual is used to predict personal online social reputation, and the inclusion of a co-exposure network provides an additional ingredient to achieve that goal.