Billy Spann

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UA Little Rock

Also affiliated: Cosmos Corporation (United States) (2024)

Faculty Researcher

7 h-index 16 pubs 124 cited

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Billy Spann's research investigates the intersection of social dynamics, computational methods, and digital communication. His work examines how individuals and groups adopt and interact with online platforms and information. Spann has published studies on the application of diffusion of innovations theory to social networks for understanding connective action campaigns and has explored the influence and reach of digital activity among far-right actors across various social media platforms.

Further research by Spann focuses on identifying and analyzing threats within online environments. This includes work on using computational social science techniques to detect coordinated cyber threats to smart city networks. He also investigates bias within recommender systems, specifically evaluating YouTube's algorithms concerning emotion, morality, and network dynamics, and has studied the impact of toxicity on online conversations, such as on Reddit. Additionally, Spann has explored the development of effective warning labels for health misinformation disseminated on social media. His scholarly work has resulted in an h-index of 7 with 113 total citations across 16 publications.

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h-index: 7
Publications: 16
Citations: 124

Selected Publications

Accessibility Barriers for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review (2025)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Evaluating Bias and Fairness in AI: An Analysis of YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm and its Impact on Geopolitical Discourse (2024)

Research Square DOI OpenAlex
Examining Toxicity’s Impact on Reddit Conversations (2024)

Studies in computational intelligence 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
Investigating Bias in YouTube Recommendations: Emotion, Morality, and Network Dynamics in China-Uyghur Content (2024)

Studies in computational intelligence 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
Analyzing Bias in Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Evaluation of YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm (2023)

12 citations DOI OpenAlex
Evaluating Role of Instagram’s Multimedia in Connective Action Leveraging Diffusion of Innovation and Cognitive Mobilization Theories: Brazilian and Peruvian Social Unrest Case Studies (2023)

4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Adopting Parallel Processing for Rapid Generation of Transcripts in Multimedia-rich Online Information Environment (2023)

14 citations DOI OpenAlex
Evaluating the Emergence of Collective Identity using Socio-Computational Techniques (2023)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Developing Approaches to Detect and Mitigate COVID-19 Misinfodemic in Social Networks for Proactive Policymaking (2022)

Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Applying diffusion of innovations theory to social networks to understand the stages of adoption in connective action campaigns (2022)

Online Social Networks and Media 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
Assessing the influence and reach of digital activity amongst far-right actors: A comparative evaluation of mainstream and ‘free speech’ social media platforms (2022)

for(e)dialogue 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Using Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Study Connective Action Campaigns (2021)

Lecture notes in computer science 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Using Computational Social Science Techniques to Identify Coordinated Cyber Threats to Smart City Networks (2021)

Sustainable civil infrastructures 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Combining advanced computational social science and graph theoretic techniques to reveal adversarial information operations (2020)

Information Processing & Management 23 citations DOI OpenAlex