Research
Research
Cross-border Social Media Communication
Disengaged No More: Exploring Effects of Cross-Border Political Discourse On Online Political Expressions Among Chinese-Speaking Netizens. Working paper (Dec 27, 2024). Contact me at my email address to see the working paper.
What are the impacts of cross-border communication on political expression and engagement of Chinese-speaking netizens? In this paper, using a comment-level dataset from social media platforms, I used Difference-in-Differences to understand the effects of such an exposure.
Voting Behavior in US
Factions in Primary Elections, with Shigeo Hirano (Columbia University) and Sam Frederick (Columbia University).
Political Identity in US
In Their Own Words: A Tailored Approach to Measuring Politicized Group Attachments, with Yamil Velez (Columbia University). Working paper (Jan 16, 2025).
Formal Models
A Model of Strategic Political Content Creator and Political Discussants’ Online Engagement. Working paper (Dec 17, 2024). Click to see the working paper here.
In this paper, I develop a model of online content generation and interaction between netizens, contingent on their political identities. This model is inhabited by social media users and content generators on a ideological continuum. Each player has her own political ideology standpoint on a ideological continuum. Content players, based on her knowledge about Netizens’ ideology, determinen the proportion of Netizens who will follow her upon sending a message that consists of information fact-checking efforts and ideology standpoint. Then, Content players form their best responses. This game models online information environment in a simplistic way.