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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Social platforms"”.
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Pocket Monsters And Pirate Treasure: Fantasy And Social Platforms In The 21st Century
POCKET MONSTERS AND PIRATE TREASURE: FANTASY AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY is an anthropology project examining media, fantasy, ideology, and social groups in order to build a better foundation for the ways in which economic and social changes influence social networking, popular media, …
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Attacks on medical data and centralized social platforms: PU learning and graphical inference
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 121048 Lift date: 2024-01-12T22:35:30Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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A persuasive approach to designing interactive tools around the promises and perils of social platforms
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15661 on 2020-10-02 at 15:14:25
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Designing to improve social platform experiences for and with queer young men
Queer young men depend heavily on social platforms. However, their needs are often not adequately considered in the design of general platforms and they can be exposed to intra-community harms on platforms such as dating apps. Recent work within HCI has exposed some of these issues, although there …
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A qualitative examination of safety needs and support-seeking in online social platform engagement after pregnancy loss
… user experiences of engaging with online social platforms (e.g. social media; online discussion forums) after pregnancy loss. The work has overarching aims of utilising qualitative research methods to: examine how users currently work to meet their safety and support-seeking needs on these …
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MACHINE LEARNING FOR TEMPORAL HETEROGENEOUS GRAPHS: PREDICTIVE METHODS, INTERPRETABILITY AND APPLICATIONS.
… novel high-resolution datasets derived from Web3 social platforms, enabling several applications for temporal graph learning in this context, such as link recommendation with textual content, transaction predictions, and user migration analysis. Together, these contributions advance both the …
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Frame Setting and Social Media Engagement: Climate Change Communication on CNN and Fox News Facebook Pages
… engagement. By integrating framing theory with social media metrics, this study advances understanding of how climate discourse evolves in polarized digital environments and offers a framework for analyzing media-audience interactions on social platforms.
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A framework for understanding the adoption and impact of socially focused business practices
… that encourage knowledge sharing. Also known as social software, these technologies have been adopted by organizations aiming to better connect with external stakeholders and communicate business practices organization-wide. Organizations have also invested in their own social platforms, enabling …
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Fandom & Social Media: SFF Authors & The Publishing Industry [Science Fiction & Fantasy]
… phenomenon of online book communities forming on social media was significantly accelerated by the Covid-19 Pandemic. The popularity of book-related content on social platforms over the last five years, and the phenomenon of online word of mouth bringing back into demand mid- or backlist titles, …
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The business and dynamics of free-to-play social-casual game apps
The rapid growth of social media platforms, specifically Facebook, has caused startup firms to develop new business models based on social technologies. By leveraging the Facebook platform, new entertainment companies making free-to-play social-casual games have created a multi-billion dollar …
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Delivery of 360° videos in edge caching assisted wireless cellular networks
… have become increasingly popular on commercial social platforms, and are a vital part of emerging Virtual Reality (VR) applications. However, the delivery of 360° videos requires significant bandwidth resources, which makes streaming of such data on mobile networks challenging. The bandwidth …
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Users' motivation to participate in crowdsourcing: a South African case study
… how organisational, individual, technical and social factors affect users' motivation to participate in crowdsourcing projects. A single case study using a crowdsourcing company based in South Africa was used. The crowdsourcing company uses crowdsourcing for monitoring online activities on …
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Investigating Asymmetric Collaboration and Interaction in Immersive Environments
… such asymmetric settings have been examined in social platforms, questions surrounding collaborative view dimensionalities in data-driven decision-making and interaction from non-immersive devices remain under-explored. A crucial inquiry arises: although presenting a consistent 3D virtual world …
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Connecting the Continent: the drivers of participation in Africa's digital economy
… technologies also contribute to economic and social inequalities between ‘connected' and ‘unconnected' countries and individuals. For technology to fulfil its economic and social potential (creating jobs, access to health, etc.), the foundation for a digital economy must be present: digital …
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Multi-Stage LLM Reasoning for Automated Detection and Classification of High-Impact Misinformation
As of 2025, social platforms have become a primary news source, magnifying the reach of misleading content [1]. Exposure to misinformation has been linked to shifts in public attitudes and behavior, including vaccine uptake [2] and voting behaviors [3]. However, current misinformation detection …
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Understanding and Reshaping Social Networks with Advanced Computational Techniques
Social networks are powerful in modeling interdependence among individuals. Recently, the availability of large-scale social network data and advances in computational tools have facilitated the rapid development in social network research. However, a few important aspects of social networks have …
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The use of paratextual devices in broadcast promotion: a content analysis of season three of Glee on Facebook
… to analyze the role of Facebook (and other social media) in television viewership and engagement. As the television landscape shifts more to the online and mobile realms, advertisers and broadcasters need to understand the effect that social platforms can have on the understanding of the …
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A risk assessment method for online social transparency in enterprise information systems.
Enterprises integrate social networking tools within their information systems to enhance social networking, situational awareness, coordination and collaboration amongst their members. Social interaction can be empowered by traditional tools such as E-mail, or specialised social platforms, …
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Social play in competitive contexts. Exploring community, sociability and sociality through team-based competitive video games, relating activities and spaces
… has been given to the vast and diverse social and communal worlds of MMOs (massively multiplayer online games) and MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role playing games). Research has delved into the exploration and examination of such spaces and its inhabitants and players and shown …
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Pachavita-Boyacá: transformación digital para el turismo alternativo
El turismo fue una de las actividades económicas más afectas durante el 2020 debido a la pandemia por el covid-19, trayendo consigo la necesidad de crear estrategias en torno a la utilización de facilitadores técnicos determinantes en el impacto económico que viven municipios, operadores turísticos …