Microblogs is one of the main social networking channels by which information is spread. Among them, Sina Weibo is one of the largest social networking channels in China. Millions of users repost information from Sina Weibo and share embedded emotion at the same time. The present study investigated participants' propensity to repost microblog messages of positive, negative, or neutral valence, ...

Cyberangriffe nehmen stetig zu, werden immer vielfältiger und professioneller. Im Umfeld von kritischen Infrastrukturen wie etwa Energie- Wasserversorgern oder im Verkehr können sich potenzielle Cyberrisiken deshalb fatal auswirken. Gleiches gilt Rahmen der landes- bundesbehördlichen Ver- Bearbeitung sensiblen Verschlusssachen (VS), bei deren Handhabung die gesetzlichen Vorschriften des nationa...

With the acceptance of Western culture and science, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has become a controversial issue in China. So, it’s important to study the public’s sentiment and opinion on TCM. The rapid development of online social network, such as twitter, make it convenient and efficient to sample hundreds of millions of people for the aforementioned sentiment study. To the best of ou...

Who has the greatest impact/influence on social networks in China? Xu Xiaoming or Yao Chen? With the rapid growth of the social networks, it’s becoming more and more necessary to measure the impact of individuals in this field. Every social network has its ranking displaying who is the most popular person at the moment. However, this measurement is incomplete and onedimensional. This paper appl...

If people with high risk of suicide can be identified through social media like microblog, it is possible to implement an active intervention system to save their lives. Based on this motivation, the current study administered the Suicide Probability Scale(SPS) to 1041 weibo users at Sina Weibo, which is a leading microblog service provider in China. Two NLP (Natural Language Processing) method...