Duncan Williams
· ProfessorUniversity of Southern California · Religion
Active 1986–2026
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Research topics
- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Social psychology
- Computer Security
- Political Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business
- Cognitive psychology
- Sociology
- Engineering
Selected publications
Viral vitriol: Predictors and contagion of online toxicity in World of Tanks
Computers in Human Behavior · 2020 · 96 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingAI, you can drive my car: How we evaluate human drivers vs. self-driving cars
Computers in Human Behavior · 2021 · 75 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingNew Media & Society · 2020 · 61 citations
This study examined how self-presentation on social media influences the way people view themselves. It also examined whether that varies with sites using two temporal features: posts which have a short life (ephemeral) and those which live indefinitely (permanent). Drawing on both the notion of public commitment and self-symbolizing, our experiment provided a critical test of two rival theory-driven hypotheses—one suggesting a greater internalization of presented self on permanent rather than e…
Trust Amongst Rogues? A Hypergraph Approach for Comparing Clandestine Trust Networks in MMOGs
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021 · 22 citations
Gold farming and real money trade refer to a set of illicit practices in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) whereby players accumulate virtual resources to sell for “real world” money. Prior work has examined trade relationships formed by gold farmers but not the trust relationships which exist between members of these organizations. We adopt a hypergraph approach to model the multi-modal relationships of gold farmers granting other players permission to use and modify objects they own.…
Computational Communication Research · 2023-01-01 · 15 citations
articleOpen accessSenior author<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> This study delved into cross-platform information flow and multilingual text analysis by examining social media posts on Weibo and Twitter in Chinese and English. We investigated public opinions about a violent restaurant attack in China that received widespread attention and validated three strategies…
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Rabindra Ratan
Michigan State University
- 19 shared
Cuihua Shen
University of California, Davis
- 17 shared
Noshir Contractor
- 15 shared
Jaideep Srivastava
- 12 shared
Brian Keegan
University of Colorado Boulder
- 9 shared
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
University of Washington Bothell
- 8 shared
Nicole Martins
Indiana University Bloomington
- 7 shared
Marshall Scott Poole
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