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Chapter and Conference Paper
Uncovering Social Media Reaction Pattern to Protest Events: A Spatiotemporal Dynamics Perspective of Ferguson Unrest
Social platforms like Twitter play an important role in people’s participation in social events. Utilizing big social media data to uncover people’s reaction to social protests can shed lights on understanding...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Uncovering Topic Dynamics of Social Media and News: The Case of Ferguson
Looking at the dynamics of news content and social media content can help us understand the increasingly complex dynamics of the relationship between the media and the public surrounding noteworthy news events...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Understanding Communication Behavior Changes During Floods Using Cell Phone Data
Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods or tornadoes affect millions of individuals every year. As a result, governments spend millions of dollars in emergency response allocating resources to mitigate th...
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Article
IL-17-receptor-associated adaptor Act1 directly stabilizes mRNAs to mediate IL-17 inflammatory signaling
Mechanisms that degrade inflammatory mRNAs are well known; however, stabilizing mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we show that Act1, an interleukin-17 (IL-17)-receptor-complex adaptor, binds and stabiliz...
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Article
Information Needs and Communication Gaps between Citizens and Local Governments Online during Natural Disasters
A growing number of citizens and local governments are using tweets to communicate during natural disasters. A good understanding of the communication contents and behaviors is critical for disaster relief. Pr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Spatial Accessibility and Equity of Public Libraries in Urban Settings
Spatial accessibility of libraries affects their usage. It is, therefore, crucial to consider spatial accessibility’s impacts on equity and inclusiveness of public libraries, which are part of public spheres f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Effect of Structural Affinity on the Diffusion of a Transnational Online Movement: The Case of #MeToo
Social media platforms intrinsically afford the diffusion of social movements like #MeToo across countries. However, little is known about how extrinsic, country-level factors affect the uptake of such a tran...
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Article
Open AccessModeling and predicting evacuation flows during hurricane Irma
Evacuations are a common practice to mitigate the potential risks and damages made by natural disasters. However, without proper coordination and management, evacuations can be inefficient and cause negative i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Nostalgic Analysis of Location Based Tweets
Social media posts have been increasingly used as mediums for gaining insight into a wide spectrum of people’s experiences including those in relation to physical spaces. We examine features of social media po...
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Chapter
Augmented Intelligence: Enhancing Human Decision Making
Augmented intelligence has been integrated into the daily lives of many individuals and it has now become the norm. Smart objects allow easier access to the Internet to enable quick searches or instructions. A...
