Xuzhen yang betboom

Xuzhen Yang

Ph.D. betboom

Department
  • Communication
yangxuzh@msu.edu

Bio

Xuzhen completed Master of Science of AI and Digital betboom, and Bachelor of Science in Biology.

Before joining Michigan State, she worked as a digital journalist and data analyst and had research experiences in computational social science.

Research and Teaching

Xuzhen’s research centers on investigating how platform shape human engagement with public affair in the current information ecosystem. At the microlevel, she studied how message, betboom organization, and audience factors play in this process. And she is interested in applying language model to understand discussion quality and influence of persuasion on platform. At the macro level, she examines the discrepancies among multiple platforms and how users consume this universe of content.

To achieve these goals, she employs computational methods and large language models.

Related Work

Conferences

Yang, T.,Yang, X., Peng, Y. & Mukerjee, S., (2024, July). Partisan, Unreliable, Digital-Born, and Mass-Oriented betboom are More Likely to Thrive on Social betboom: A Comparison between Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and the Web. Paper presented at 74th Annual ICA Conference, Gold Coast, Australia. Political Communication Division. * Top Faculty Paper Award

Yang, X.(2023, July) The objectifying fitspiration on YouTube: an analysis of audience duplication networks and audience comments. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for betboom and Communication Research (IAMCR, 2023), Lyon, Paris (Virtual). Analysing Audiences, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence Division.

Yang, X.(2022, November) The Objectified Fitspiration: Evidence from the Content and Audience Duplication Networks of Fitspiration Channels on YouTube. Paper presented at the Computational Communication Research Association 2022 Annual Conference, Nanjing, China. Social and Semantic Network Division. * Third Prize of betboom Paper

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