Esther Mead Source Confirmed

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Researcher

Southern Arkansas University

faculty

9 h-index 25 pubs 296 cited

Research Areas

Misinformation and Its Impacts Media Studies and Communication Social Media and Politics SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research COVID-19 epidemiological studies Behavioral and Psychological Studies Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Natural Language Processing Techniques

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Esther Mead's research investigates the propagation and regulation of online discourse, particularly focusing on toxicity and misinformation across social media platforms. Her work employs computational and epidemiological models to analyze the spread of information and harmful content on platforms such as YouTube and Twitter. Mead has studied the mechanisms behind video recommendation bias on YouTube and examined how diffusion of innovations theory can explain the adoption stages in connective action campaigns.

Her publications also address the spread of legitimate information alongside misinformation, specifically in the context of events like the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Mead has further assessed the influence of digital activity from far-right actors on both mainstream and alternative social media platforms. She has a notable record of collaboration, with nine shared publications with Nitin Agarwal and multiple shared publications with Thomas Marcoux, Joseph Kready, and Billy Spann, primarily from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Metrics

  • h-index: 9
  • Publications: 25
  • Citations: 296

Selected Publications

  • Text Mining Domestic Extremism Topics on Multiple Social Media Platforms (2024) DOI
  • Proposing Location-based Predictive Features for Modeling Refugee Counts (2023) DOI
  • Developing Approaches to Detect and Mitigate COVID-19 Misinfodemic in Social Networks for Proactive Policymaking (2022) DOI
  • Applying diffusion of innovations theory to social networks to understand the stages of adoption in connective action campaigns (2022) DOI
  • Surface Web vs Deep Web vs Dark Web (2022) DOI
  • Assessing the influence and reach of digital activity amongst far-right actors: A comparative evaluation of mainstream and ‘free speech’ social media platforms (2022) DOI
  • Assessing Bias in YouTube’s Video Recommendation Algorithm in a Cross-lingual and Cross-topical Context (2021) DOI
  • Applying an Epidemiological Model to Evaluate the Propagation of Misinformation and Legitimate COVID-19-Related Information on Twitter (2021) DOI
  • Using Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Study Connective Action Campaigns (2021) DOI
  • Proposing a Broader Scope of Predictive Features for Modeling Refugee Counts (2021) DOI
  • Developing a socio-computational approach to examine toxicity propagation and regulation in COVID-19 discourse on YouTube (2021) DOI
  • A public online resource to track COVID-19 misinfodemic (2021) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Nitin Agarwal University of Arkansas at Little Rock 9 shared publications Thomas Marcoux University of Arkansas at Little Rock 4 shared publications Joseph Kready University of Arkansas at Little Rock 4 shared publications Billy Spann University of Arkansas at Little Rock 4 shared publications Erik Buchholz University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2 shared publications Tuja Khaund University of Arkansas at Little Rock 1 shared publication Rick Galeano University of Arkansas at Little Rock 1 shared publication Karen Watts DiCicco University of Arkansas at Little Rock 1 shared publication

Similar Researchers

Based on overlapping research topics

Joseph Kready University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Misinformation and Its Impacts Media Studies and Communication Social Media and Politics
Strong match 6 shared topics
Tuja Khaund University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Misinformation and Its Impacts Media Studies and Communication Social Media and Politics
Strong match 6 shared topics
Thomas Marcoux University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Misinformation and Its Impacts Media Studies and Communication Social Media and Politics
Strong match 6 shared topics
Nitin Agarwal University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Misinformation and Its Impacts Media Studies and Communication Social Media and Politics
Good match 6 shared topics
Erik Buchholz University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Misinformation and Its Impacts Media Studies and Communication SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
Good match 5 shared topics
Huu Dat Tran University of Central Arkansas
Misinformation and Its Impacts Media Studies and Communication Social Media and Politics
Good match 5 shared topics