Tian Yang
University of Pennsylvania
14 Papers
12 Citations
Tian Yang is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Heuristic (computer science). The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Tian Yang include National University of Singapore.
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Papers
Exposure to news grows less fragmented with an increase in mobile access.
TL;DR: It is shown that mainstream media outlets offer the common ground where ideologically diverse audiences converge online, though the analysis also reveals that more than half of the US online population consumes no online news, underlining the risk of increased information inequality driven by self-selection along lines of interest.
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Choosing to Avoid? A Conjoint Experimental Study to Understand Selective Exposure and Avoidance on Social Media
Subhayan Mukerjee,Tian Yang +1 more
TL;DR: This study uses a conjoint experimental design to examine how source outlet cues, message cues, and social endorsement cues shape news selectivity on Facebook, and finds that people significantly avoid news items with out-party outlet and message cues.
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The Importance of Trending Topics in the Gatekeeping of Social Media News Engagement: A Natural Experiment on Weibo:
Tian Yang,Yilang Peng +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on one example of digitized gatekeepers, focusing on the gatekeeping process of news consumption and news engagement, and how digital gatekeepers work.
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How dark corners collude: a study on an online Chinese alt-right community
Tian Yang,Kecheng Fang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a mixed-methods approach combining topic modeling, social net, and topic modeling was used to study the rise of the "alt-right" and their communications on the Internet.
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Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook
TL;DR: This paper found that while the overall effect of audience engagement on future news coverage is significant, there is substantial heterogeneity in how individual media outlets respond to different kinds of topics and that a handful of right-wing media outlets are more likely to respond to audience engagement metrics than other outlets.
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