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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Rumors"”.
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Broken Rules and Ugly Rumors
<p>Poetry Collection. </p>
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Countering Anti-Vaccination Rumors on Twitter
… the harmful consequences of health-related rumors.</p>
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Detecting and Mitigating Rumors in Social Media
… opportunities for nefarious elements to spread rumors or misinformation. A rumor generally refers to an interesting piece of information that is widely disseminated through a social network and whose credibility cannot be easily substantiated. A rumor can later turn out to be true or false or …
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Automatic detection and verification of rumors on Twitter
… for automated detection and verification of rumors (unverified information) that propagate through Twitter. Detection of rumors about an event is achieved through classifying and clustering assertions made about that event. Assertions are classified through a speech-act classifier for Twitter …
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Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumor, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire
… the relationships that weave together disaster, rumors, massacre, and narrative-making in an empire, this project explores rumors, trial discourses, and commemoration as sites of analysis to create a window on the contested construction of multiethnic modern Japan. By analyzing a wide range of …
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Frank and Gala
<p>Through the gossip and rumors in a small town in Minnesota, the townspeople discuss and react to the Levison family's claimed perfection.</p>
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Online Social Networks News Spreading: Modeling and Data Analysis
… information has made these platforms famous for rumors spreading, but, unlike traditional channels, news is free to propagate without control, so it is of primary importance to understand what are the factors that induce users to propagate a piece of news and not another, and how to identify true …
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Algorithms for Modeling Mass Movements and their Adoption in Social Networks
… how can we distinguish real movements from rumors or misinformation campaigns? and fourth, how can we infer the indicators of a specific type of protest, say climate related protest? A fundamental objective of this research has been to conduct a comprehensive study of how mass movement …
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The northern clergy and the Pilgrimage of Grace
… of the clergy initiated and spread a series of rumors throughout England. These rumors are important because they played a significant role in causing both the Pilgrimage of Grace and the Lincolnshire rebellion. Extant sources also indicate that many clergymen supported the rebels with words, …
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Crime Legends in Old and New Media
… order to address the hard-to-document nature of rumors and urban legends.</p> <p>The news media do not appear to be a significant intentional vector of crime legends. This finding suggests that the crime legend remains a largely word-of-mouth, and now e-mail based form which travels mainly …
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Social media's impact on higher education crisis communication plans
… plans to better respond to messages and rumors on social networking. Two of the crises dealt with safety issues and two were reputational crises designed to discredit the institution. Four communication professionals were also interviewed for their opinions about social networking use …
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A Comparative Analysis of Weibo and Xinhua in Framing Chinese Civic Engagement
… despite inadequacies, including the spreading of rumors, lack of in-depth conversations, and even future restrictions from the government.
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From Confederate Deserter to Decorated Veteran Bible Scholar: Exploring the Enigmatic Life of C.I. Scofield 1861-1921.
… and Republican politician before corruption rumors radically altered his life in 1874. By 1882, he emerged as a minister in Dallas, Texas where he built an image as a Confederate veteran and Bible scholar. Drawing on Scofield's manuscripts and other sources, this study shows the …
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Optimizing and Understanding Network Structure for Diffusion
… to choose the best communities/groups to stop rumors from spreading? How to find the best accounts that bridge celebrities and ordinary users? These questions are related to diffusion (aka propagation) phenomena. Diffusion can be treated as a behavior of spreading contagions (like viruses, …
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The attitudes of Zululand University academics towards immigrants
… often accused of committing crime. There were rumors of racism and xenophobia at the University of Zululand to which the Rector published a circular denouncing such attitudes. To determine whether there was xenophobia at me University of Zululand, questionnaires were sent to South African …
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Parnell and Kitty O'Shea: A Study of Scandal in Victorian Politics
… exoneration, giving credence to favorable rumors and court testimony, but questioning any contrary reports. | Other sources, such as the biographies of Katherine O'Shea, Robert McWade, E. M. Dickinson, and John Parnell are principally products of relatives. Joan Haslip's account is nothing …
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Diagnosis of Cyber and Nonphysical Bullying Victimization: A Routine Activities Approach to Constructing Effective Preventive Measures
… been made fun of, called names, having had rumors spread, been threatened, pushed/shoved/tripped, etc., forced to do unwanted things, excluded, or having had property destroyed. Data were derived from the 2013 school crime supplement of NCVS, which was distributed among a nationally …
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Digital Media and Campaign Practices in Nigeria: Ekiti State Governorship Election
… using SMS to coordinate meetings and spread rumors about the opposition, as well as for debunking opposition’s allegations. The campaign delegated rumor-spreading tasks to proxies, and thereby saving itself the pain of proving accusations against the opponent. Involving techniques include …
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