Research on the roles of multiple social media platforms in the evolution of public events

Ruilian Han is a doctoral student at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University. Her research interests are social media analytics and data mining. She has published three papers on top journals in the related field. She participated in the Excellent Youth Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Lu An is a professor at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University and the Deputy Director of the Ethics Committee of Humanities and Social Sciences of Wuhan University. She serves as a director at large of ASIS&T and President-Elect of International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). She has published more than 100 papers on IJIM, IP&M, T&I, JASIST, and Chinese core LIS journals, two monographs, and chapters of five books in the field of information science. She won the ASIS&T Social Media Research Competition and other awards.

Wei Zhou is a doctoral student at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, majoring in Information Science. She has published several articles on the Chinese core journals in the LIS field. She is actively engaged in the projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Gang Li is a professor at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University and the director of Center for Studies of Information Resources, Wuhan University. He has published more than 200 journal articles on IJIM, IP&M, T&I, JASIST, and so forth. He is the principal investigator of the Innovation Research Group Project and the Major Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research interests include information resource management and data mining.