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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"MEDIA SYSTEMS"”.
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Configuration and control in social media systems
Social media is an important means for interaction, but one that is increasingly curated by automated systems that aim to intelligently infer user intentions. This dissertation studies how users experience different mechanisms to configure and control these automated systems. Three sets of …
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Rethinking media systems: insights from a case study of paid news in India
… be effected in the depth and accuracy with which media systems theory meets its proclaimed objective of understanding and describing the behaviour of media systems. It draws upon critiques of the applicability of media systems theory to non-Western media systems to ask whether the grounded study …
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TRACING NEWS ON TWITTER: FORCES SHAPING NEWS CONSUMPTION AND PERCEPTIONS IN GULF COUNTRY MEDIA SYSTEMS
In the news media environment, the systemic relationship between the media and public is reflexive, where the media shape public life and vice versa. This dissertation centers on explaining the relationship between the media environment and news consumers in media systems in five countries that …
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The South African print media, 1994-2004 : an application and critique of comparative media systems theory
Daniel C Hallin and Paolo Mancini's Comparing Media Systems (2004) has been hailed as an important contribution to understanding the inter-relationship between the media and political systems. The work was, however, based on a study of 18 stable, mature and highly developed democracies either in …
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A Family Affair: The Political Economy of Media Ownership in the Republic of Korea (1998-2012)
… dissertation investigates the nature of Korean media giants among members of Asian media conglomerates in the era of media marketization. Since the 1980s, each state in Asia has adopted neoliberal media laws and policies that have made its media systems more market-driven. This neoliberal media …
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Framing the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in Bangladesh and the United States
… investigates how Bangladeshi and U.S.-based media outlets framed the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh. While prior research has highlighted media ownership or ideology, this work explores how the national context influences framing across global North and South outlets. Drawing on …
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An LCA study comparing e-books read on an Apple Air iPad to printed books in South Africa
… assessing the environmental impacts of print media systems in comparison to digital media systems offering the same services have been conducted in United States of America (USA) or Sweden. The most notable are studies done by Kozak (2003), Gard & Keoleian (2003), Enroth (2009), Moberg et al. …
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Pore scale study of crude oil distribution and interfacial processes in unconsolidated porous media: an application of synchrotron x-ray microtomography
… study was conducted to determine model reservoir systems most amenable to oil recovery by investigating the behavior of three fractions of crude oil distribution and morphology in three types of porous media with increasing heterogeneity (in grain size distribution) during sequential surfactant …
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Extraction of physically-realistic pore network properties from three-dimensional synchrotron microtomography images of unconsolidated porous media
… structure from unconsolidated porous media systems imaged using synchrotron microtomography. The structure can be used to correlate pore-scale phenomena with the pore structure and can also be incorporated into a pore-network model to verify existing models, understand, or predict …
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Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems
… data within large web-scale image sharing systems like Flickr, Picasa Web, Facebook and others for image recommendation. I have shown how such systems can be significantly improved through personalisation that takes into account the social context of users by modelling their interactions by …
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A Marxist analysis of an editorial column as a site of struggle for meaning
… capitalism and the "march of the megamedia" by investigating the media's role in perpetuating and sustaining hegemony. According to Marxist critics, the collective operations of the culture industry have worked to destroy the revolutionary potential of the working class. In a resistant …
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Texting, self, and society
… have all seen an overabundance of communicative systems to manage. In our society, cell phones are becoming the primary form of communication for young people. Building a dialogue surrounding new media systems will enhance our observation as the cell phone changes from a practical device to a …
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Mining User Behavior in Social Environments
… 2.0 has brought to a widespread use of social media systems and to an increasing number of active users. This phenomenon implies that each user interacts with too many users and is overwhelmed by a huge amount of content, leading to the well know “social interaction overload” problem. In order …
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Community media and civil society: lessons from the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela
This dissertation explores the role of community media in democratic civil society governance through an examination of participatory communications under socialist administrations in Latin America, with a primary focus on the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. In so doing, it seeks to establish a …
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International news contraflow in the United States and Canada: struggles over North American media markets and regulation of Al Jazeera and China Central Television
In this dissertation, I examine news media contraflow, flows of news and information from historically underrepresented parts of the globe into advanced media systems. I assess North American governance of news media flows in light of increased availability of nonwestern news organizations. The …
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Configurable dynamic privacy for pervasive sensor networks
… augmented the functionality of interactive media systems by adding the ability to capture and store activity-related information. Analyzing the information recorded from pervasive sensor networks can provide insight about human behavior for better personalized system services, as well as …
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Telepresence and Transgenic Art
… based on unconventional operations of existing media, systems, and processes. Particular emphasis is given to the author's transformation of monologic systems of production into dialogic forms of experience. All works result from extensive technical, historical, and creative …
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Making popular music in Cuba: A study of the Cuban institutions of musical production and the musical life of Santiago de Cuba
… policy, the employment of musicians, mass media, systems of evaluation. Mass organizations which include musicians are also discussed, particularly with respect to their role in mediating distinctions of professionals and amateurs. Part III describes musical life in Santiago. Types of …
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THE MOBILITY OF ENGINEERED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES IN POROUS MEDIA
… possibly as reactants for insitu site remediation or as leachate from landfill sites. Therefore, understanding the mobility of engineered nanomaterials in porous media is very important. Engineered multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are an important class of nanomaterials from an …
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