Pang Alina (Xiai)
Research
From Content to Connection: Understanding the Role of AI-generated Image and Text Content on User Engagement on Social Media
Overview:
This study examines how AI-generated content influences social media engagement, focusing on image aesthetics, text sentiment (arousal and valence), and image-text congruency.
I analyzed 20,000 tweets with AI-generated images and text content from Twitter (X). Using deep learning models, I quantified aesthetic scores, sentiment attributes, and image-text congruency, then examined their relationship to social engagement index (likes, replies, and retweets).
Asian Performance Aesthetics, Hip-Hop, and Hybridity: Visual Languages of Afro-Asian Protest Art in a Globalized Era
Overview:
This study investigates how African American and Asian American protest artists collaboratively developed hybrid visual languages that transcends individual cultural narratives to articulate shared struggles against systemic racism and social injustice from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Exploring Space, Exploring the Earth: The Apollo Program's Terrestrial Legacy
Overview:
This study examines the Apollo Program's impact beyond space exploration, focusing on technological innovation, material science, gender equality, and international cooperation. I analyzed historical records and case studies of computing advances, flame-resistant materials, women's roles in NASA, and U.S.-Soviet collaboration.
Making and Spending: The Economical Effects Create Money Spending
Overview:
This study evaluates how successful entrepreneurs making and spending money influence the economy through stakeholder analysis. It highlights benefits, including product innovation, higher wages, job creation, competition-driven efficiency, and social investments, while acknowledging risks such as inequality, inflation, and structural unemployment, by analyzing cases from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla.
Rebuilding a Broken Country: Reconstruction and its Long Legacy in the United States
Overview:
This study explores the Reconstruction Era (1863-1877) as a turning point in U.S. history, focusing on its expansion of African American civil rights, the challenges of racial hierarchy, and it enduring political and social legacy. I analyzed constitutional amendments, federal programs, and Southern resistance to assess how Reconstruction advanced equality while also laying the groundwork for Jim Crow segregation and modern civil rights struggles.