Yiran Duan

Overview

Yiran Duan is a PhD candidate at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. Her research explores flows of information, and the key users involved, particularly across different social media platforms. She examines how different types of users, such as network gatekeepers and opinion leaders, shape the flow of information using machine learning models, inferential statistics, and data visualizations. Her work has been published in the conference of Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), the iConference, the conference of Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and Social Media + Society.