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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Hype"”.
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Can hype be a force for good?
Hype takes the form of visions and stories, articulated through optimistic or pessimistic expectations. Visions of desirable futures to work towards, or undesirable futures to work against, help to motivate support for research and gather necessary resources, including funding and political …
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Can hype be a force for good?
Hype takes the form of visions and stories, articulated through optimistic or pessimistic expectations. Visions of desirable futures to work towards, or undesirable futures to work against, help to motivate support for research and gather necessary resources, including funding and political …
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What's 'Awe' The Hype? Motivations to Share Video Game Information
Over the past few decades, video games have become a popular avenue for dissemination of information and publicity about video games is word-of-mouth sharing. Thus, it is imperative for researchers to examine the social, and individual processes that guide this behavior. Focusing on prerelease …
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Hype and diversity in science: a bibliometric study of biomedical literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN IMPROVING ELECTORAL INTEGRITY: HOPE OR JUST HYPE?
… analysis reveals mixed evidence of both hope and hype. The findings indicate that countries using “biometric data” in voter identification at polling stations are more likely to have elections with higher levels of perceived electoral integrity. Contrastingly, countries using “electronic …
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Your brain on 9 volts : the specter and hype of electrical brain stimulation
The potential of electricity to improve the brain has captivated many. Electrical gadgets attract the rich and the poor, the educated and uneducated, the scientist and the charlatan. Over hundreds of years, people have tried everything from shocking away headaches with live torpedo fish, to …
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Worth the Wait and Hype? Gentrification, Anxiety, and the Hipster Geographies of Boutique Ice Cream
In the opening decades of the twenty-first century, gentrification continues to upscale city fabrics, including their retail landscapes, beyond recognition. The ongoing expansion of boutique shops and aestheticized commerce displacing longtime stores and ordinary services increasingly signals new …
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Decoding Relations between Geopolitical Risk and Financial Markets
… between topic sentiment (polarity) and hype (intensity), and financial market returns under different market conditions. For the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the study analyzes 11,929 Wall Street Journal articles published between 2014 and 2024, identifying 12 distinct topics. Among them, …
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The landscape of tourism: a case study of the development of Rotorua : a dissertation submitted for partial fulfilment of the Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College
… on its own to attract the tourist. Publicity hype has grown to distort these past landscape assets. A large discrepancy between reality and the image presented in the publicity hype is a situation far from ideal. Because of this discrepancy a need to create new experiences is emerging for many …
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Social and epistemological bases of technology transfer: The case of artificial intelligence
… marketplace had been damaged by overselling or hype. In particular, I show that disclaimers of hype (more than the perpetration of it) had always been associated with the marketing of Al. More generally, my claim is that it is politically important to understand that neutral information is not …
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Challenges in the adoption and diffusion of Web services in financial institutions
… to segregate the business reality from the hype surrounding them. The work analyzes the potential benefits and the challenges involved in the adoption and diffusion of web services in the financial industry, utilizing academic research and examples of current use of web services, to try to …
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Value creation through investments in Web-based systems within not-for-profit organisations: the case of two UK museums
… is not a universal panacea and between the hype and counter-hype on the benefits of Web technologies, it is clear there are limits. Some third sector organisations are failing to make the most ofWeb technologies. Thus, it is important to develop a clear understanding of the process of …
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Decentralised computer systems
… visions for the Web. This has led to immense hype around these technologies with the cryptocurrency market valued at several hundred billions of dollars at the time of writing. With great hype, apparently, come great scams. I start off by analysing the use of Bitcoin as an enabler for crime …
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An investigation of third-year multimedia students' use of the web to supplement and enhance formal course work and skills
… studies have shown that, despite, the initial hype about how the world wide web would change learning, young people and, especially, students are not necessarily inclined to use the web for learning, simply because it is available. In this dissertation, I investigate third-year multimedia …
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Paradoxum Ex Machina: Exploring the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence Technologies on the Strategies and Actions of Entrepreneurial Ventures
… rhetorical strategies (i.e., particularly firm hype) to attract and secure investor support. This empirical study demonstrates that while moderate hype enhances firm valuation, excessive hype backfires unless bolstered by credibility and comprehensibility factors. This study also offers novels …
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Characterization of Vibrio VopS, an AMPylator of Rho GTPases
… We have shown that a Fic protein from humans, HYPE, possesses auto-AMPylation activity, confirming our hypothesis that these domains are involved in AMPylation. Ongoing and future studies seek to identify the substrates of HYPE activity and identify other components involved in this new layer …
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Cheated by deepfakes? deepfake detection ability, people’s reactions, and ethical implications
… the Internet fell short of its expectations and hype. Now, the focus and hype has largely shifted to artificial intelligence. In which direction will these new technologies go? What are humans’ relationships with these emerging technologies? How can we use this technology safely and ensure that …
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Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and Entanglement with "Artificial Intelligence"
… embedded in algorithmic systems, and for the hype-laden marketing of the corporations and agencies developing them. This same hype then intentionally obfuscates the actions of both the systems and the people who create them, while confounding and oppressing those most often made subject to …
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Overview of blockchain and possible use cases in the Thai payment system
In recent years, there has been a lot of hype and interest around Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Following the invention of Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain, the public ledger that supports Bitcoin transaction, has also emerged as a hot topic. Blockchain has attracted attention from many parties around …
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