About the Reviewer

Weiai Wayne Xu is an assistant professor in the department of communication at University of Massachusetts – Amherst and is affiliated with the University’s Computational Social Science Institute. Previously, Xu worked as a network science scholar at the Network Science Institute of Northeastern University in Boston. His research on online communities, word-of-mouth, and social capital have appeared in various peer-reviewed journals. Xu also assisted four national grant projects in the area of strategic communication and public opinion. Aside from his professional appointment, he is a co-founder of a data lab called CuriosityBits Collective (http://www.curiositybits.org/).