Yanru Joyce Jiang

University of California, Los Angeles | UCLA · Department of Communication Studies

From voting fraud to Russian interference, electoral conspiracy theories have circulated on social media since the 2016 United States presidential election with alarming magnitude. Previous conspiracy studies have primarily focused on psychological causes that contribute to the conspiracy mentality, and the discussion on political antecedents of co...

Studying how vaping is framed on various knowledge dissemination platforms (e.g., Quora, Reddit, Wikipedia) is central to understanding the process of knowledge dissemination around vaping. Such understanding can help us craft tools specific to each platform, to dispel vaping misperceptions and reinforce evidence-based information. We analyze 1,888...

This study analyzes the digital transnational advocacy network of the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement on Twitter. We present how grassroots users strategically utilize social media for achieving diplomatic engagement with foreign actors. The Twitter network analysis and natural language processing of tweets (...

This study uses TikTok (N = 8,173) to examine how short-form video platforms challenge the protest paradigm in the recent Black Lives Matter movement. A computer-mediated visual analysis, computer vision, is employed to identify the presence of four visual frames of protest (riot, confrontation, spectacle, and debate) in multimedia content. Results...

We analyze 1,888 articles and 1,119,453 vaping posts to study how vaping is framed across multiple knowledge dissemination platforms (Wikipedia, Quora, Medium, Reddit, Stack Exchange, wikiHow). We use various NLP techniques to understand these differences. For example, n-grams, emotion recognition, and question answering results indicate that Mediu...

Protest music is a phenomenal and widely circulated form of protest art in social movements. Previous protest music research has extensively focused on lyrics while ignoring other musical features that also contribute to the role of protest music in social movements. This study fills a gap in previous research by converting 397 unstructured musical...

This study uses data from TikTok (N = 8,173) to examine how short-form video platforms challenge the protest paradigm established by the mainstream media in the Black Lives Matter movement, which was triggered by George Floyd's death on 25 May 2020. A computer-mediated visual analysis, computer vision, is employed to identify the presence of four v...

Investment structure optimization is important for achieving green development, and environmental regulation affects enterprises’ investment behavior significantly. This study divides environmental regulation into market-based and command-and-control policies. The latter is further divided into the formulation and implementation of policies. Using...

The “pop idol group” is a cultural phenomenon and popular business model in the 21st century. Teenagers who wish to become idols drop out of high school and are intensively trained in a set of skills that are essential for them to become idols. Entertainment companies fully cover the training and accommodation expenses of trainees with the expectat...