Concept

New media

Related publications (50)

How Words Move Hearts: Interpretable Machine Learning Models of Bias, Engagement, and Influence in Socio-Political Systems

We study socio-political systems in representative democracies. Motivated by problems that affect the proper functioning of the system, we build computational methods to answer research questions regarding the phenomena occurring in them. For each phenomen ...

EPFL2023

United States politicians' tone became more negative with 2016 primary campaigns

Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel

There is a widespread belief that the tone of political debate in the US has become more negative recently, in particular when Donald Trump entered politics. At the same time, there is disagreement as to whether Trump changed or merely continued previous t ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Bridging Science, Technology & Society (STS), electronic waste and research through design: the case of the Agbogbloshie landfill, Ghana

This contribution situates the potential of combining Science, Technology & Society (STS) with critical and sustainable design methodologies in order to enhance media literacy in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Ghana. Gravita ...

2023

Landmarking for Navigational Streaming of Stored High-Dimensional Media

Pascal Frossard, Yuan Yuan

Modern media data such as 360 degrees videos and light field (LF) images are typically captured in much higher dimensions than the observers' visual displays. To efficiently browse high-dimensional media, a navigational streaming model is considered: a cli ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

The Role of Compromised Accounts in Social Media Manipulation

Tugrulcan Elmas

In recent years we have seen a marked increase in disinformation including as part of a strategy of so-called hybrid warfare. Adversaries not only directly spread misleading content but manipulate social media by employing sophisticated techniques that exp ...

EPFL2022

Trust Indicators and Explainable AI: A Study on User Perceptions

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Andreas Sonderegger, Thanh Trung Phan

Nowadays, search engines, social media or news aggregators are the preferred services for news access. Aggregation is mostly based on artificial intelligence technologies raising a new challenge: Trust has been ranked as the most important factor for media ...

Springer2021

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content on the platform. Yet, there is to date no substantial quantitative evidence ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

From Polarizability to Effective Permittivity of Time-Varying Materials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

In this talk, we describe excitation of time-varying dipolar particles (time-modulated meta-atoms) by external time-varying fields from a nonstationary and causal perspective. For a time-harmonic excitation, we introduce a complex-valued function, called t ...

IEEE2020

An Authoring Model For Interactive 360 Videos

Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

The recent availability of consumer-level head-mounted displays and omnidirectional cameras has been driving an explosion of 360 video content. Transforming the original recorded 360 video content in meaningful interactive multimedia presentations that sup ...

IEEE2020

Bringing Computational Thinking to non-STEM Undergraduates through an Integrated Notebook Application

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer

Computational thinking courses are no longer exclusive to engineering and computer science students in higher education but have become a requirement in other fields, as well as for students in secondary, primary, and even early childhood education. Comput ...

2020

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.