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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

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

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

Home Sweet World. Z Architektami Z False Mirror Office Rozmawia Katarzyna Mikulska [a Dialogue between False Mirror Office and Katarzyna Mikulska]

Boris Hamzeian, Filippo Fanciotti, Giovanni Glorialanza

Coronavirus. Covid-19. Pandemic. A urgent topic now both in the public media all around the world and in our daily conversations. Infected or not, it still contaminated our lives. It changed what we believed as „normal”. It divided our existence into „Befo ...

2020

Plea for an Ecology of Savant Practices: A Brief Theoretical Venture

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Recent developments in media studies have led philosophers to emphasise the role played by mediation in a broad sense, conceiving of a medium as what lies in between two alterities and that at once enables and constrains, materialises and shapes our percep ...

2019

Self-Recognition in Data Visualization: How Individuals See Themselves in Visual Representations

Dario Rodighiero, Loup Cellard

This article explores how readers recognize their personal identities represented through data visualizations. The recognition is investigated starting from three definitions captured by the philosopher Paul Ricoeur: the identification with the visualizati ...

2019

Methods of derivation and/or propagation of epithelial cells

Yann Barrandon, Andrea Zaffalon

The present invention relates to methods of derivation and/or propagation of epithelial cells from tissue comprising culturing said tissue in media containing an effective amount of a proprotein convertase inhibitor for a period of time allowing the deriva ...

2018

Selection Bias in News Coverage: Learning it, Fighting it

Karl Aberer, Jérémie Rappaz

News entities must select and filter the coverage they broadcast through their respective channels since the set of world events is too large to be treated exhaustively. The subjective nature of this filtering induces biases due to, among other things, res ...

2018

Optical characterization of multi-scale morphologically complex heterogeneous media – Application to snow with soot impurities

Sophia Haussener, Xiaoyu Dai

A multi-scale methodology for the radiative transfer analysis of heterogeneous media composed of morphologically-complex components on two distinct scales is presented. The methodology incorporates the exact morphology at the various scales and utilizes vo ...

Elsevier2018

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