This Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions event features Stanford professors Jennifer Pan and Hongbin Li.
Information Flow Between Global and Chinese Social Media
Despite the connectivity of social media, the Chinese government has been extremely successful in using controls such as firewalls and filtering to restrict the transnational flow of information into China. Does information from global social media flow into China? What types of information are transmitted and by whom? In this talk, Professor Jennifer Pan will share answers to these questions based on on-going research where she analyzed 14 million tweets to identify viral Twitter content pertaining to the COVID-19 outbreak and China during the first quarter of 2020. She developed a system that combines deep learning and human annotation to determine whether these viral tweets appear in a corpus of 8.3 million Weibo posts related to COVID-19 from the same period.
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