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This paper examines how the European press dealt with the no-vax reactions against the Covid-19 vaccine and the dis- and misinformation associated with this movement. Using a curated dataset of 1786 articles from 19 European newspapers on the anti-vaccine ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users' activity on fringe social media
Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
Online platforms have banned ("deplatformed") influencers, communities, and even entire websites to reduce content deemed harmful. Deplatformed users often migrate to alternative platforms, which raises concerns about the effectiveness of deplatforming. He ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023Toward a common standard for data and specimen provenance in life sciences
Marco Mattavelli, Anna Marsano
Open and practical exchange, dissemination, and reuse of specimens and data have become a fundamental requirement for life sciences research. The quality of the data obtained and thus the findings and knowledge derived is thus significantly influenced by t ...
WILEY2023United 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 PORTFOLIO2023Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach
Devis Tuia, Alex Hubertus Levering
As unconventional sources of geoinformation, massive imagery and text messages from open platforms and social media form a temporally quasi-seamless, spatially multiperspective stream, but with unknown and diverse quality. Due to its complementarity to rem ...
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022The Role of Compromised Accounts in Social Media Manipulation
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 ...
EPFL2022The impact of NFT profile pictures within social network communities
Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet
This paper presents an analysis of the role of social media, specifically Twitter, in the context of non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs. Such emerging technology framing the creation and exchange of digital object, started years ago with early proje ...
ACM2022Analysis of Beijing 2022 Big Air Venue through data from WeChat Channel & Weibo
The Big Air venue of Beijing is constructed in an industrial heritage site named Shougang, under the concept of activating the abandoned area and linking the Olympic venue with public leisure life. As Beijing 2022 has concluded half a year ago and the Shou ...
2022Is Your Time Well Spent Online?: Focusing on Quality Experiences Through a User-Centered Recommendation Algorithm and Simulation Model
Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli
Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital news and social media platforms can negatively influence mental health and decrease cognitive abilities. In this paper, we propose a sequential news recommendation system employing deep reinf ...
IEEE2022The resistance of stone: thick and fragmented urban collective memory in Gulou
In his seminal work, Halbwachs (1950: 132–139) already noted a homology between the resistance of stone and the resistance of cities’ inhabitants to being displaced or effaced. This contribution seeks to study the relationship between the built environment ...
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