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Yiwei Xu

Assistant Professor, College of Information

Latest Papers

AI Overviews Reduce Search Result Engagement & May Influence Attitude Polarization


Author(s): Saloni Dash, Yiwei Xu, Lei Cai, et. al
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu


Community Characteristics Predict Local News Agenda Building About Racial Health Disparities

| Health Communication
Author(s): Yiwei Xu, Markus Neumann, Erika Franklin Fowler, et. al
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu


Promoting Teen Pregnancy Prevention: An Analysis of Social Media Content Strategy Over Five Years

| Health Communication
Author(s): Erin Ash, Emma Cox, Yiwei Xu, et. al
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu


Inoculation Theory and Public Policy

| The Handbook of Inoculation Theory and Practice
Author(s): Jiawei Liu, Yiwei Xu, Jeff Niederdeppe
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu


The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale

| PNAS Nexus
Author(s): Saloni Dash, Yiwei Xu, Madeline Jalbert, et. al
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu


AI-Paraphrasing Increases Perceptions of Social Consensus & Belief in False Information


Author(s): Saloni Dash, Yiwei Xu, Emma Spiro
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu


Landscape of Large Language Models in Global English News: Topics, Sentiments, and Spatiotemporal Analysis

| Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Author(s): Lu Xian, Lingyao Li, Yiwei Xu, et. al
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu


Collective Information Seeking During a Health Crisis : Predictors of Google Trends During COVID-19

| Health Communication
Author(s): Yiwei Xu, Drew Margolin
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu


Politicizing Masks? Examining the Volume and Content of Local News Coverage of Face Coverings in the U.S. Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

| Political Communication
Author(s): Markus Neumann, Steven T. Moore, Laura M. Baum, et. al
UMD Author(s): Yiwei Xu