New article on social media, mass media, and public opinions

New article on social media, mass media, and public opinions

The article has been published on Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination by Haibo Hu, formally a postdoctoral fellow of the Web Mining Lab and now an Associate Professor of Business School at East China University of Science and Technology, and Jonathan Zhu of the Lab. In the article, they proposed a concise and analyzable model to study the effects of mass media modeled, as an applied external field, and social networks on public opinions based on the multi-state voter model, and a tuned parameter can control the relative intensity of the effects of mass media and social networks.