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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"information consumption"”.
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Mispricing and the Demand for Fundamental Information
… evidence that investor demand for accounting information intensifies following nonfundamental shocks to prices. Using quasi-exogenous variation in security prices due to forced mutual fund sales, I find that mispricing triggers an increase in the consumption of accounting information, …
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Combating Problematic Information Online with Dual Process Cognitive Affordances
… (reflective) reasoning while consuming information. Can such theories be used to support users' information consumption in the presence of problematic content in online spaces? To answer, I merge these theories with the idea of affordances from HCI to into the concept of dual process …
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Technosexuality: Technology, Sexuality, and Convergence
… modes of interpersonal communication and sexual information consumption. The findings of this study indicate that though there is not a complete convergence between technology and sexuality, there nonetheless exists a relationship between the two constructs. Consistent with extant literature …
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Engineering serendipity : Terra Incognita and other strange encounters with global news
… to congregate with others like them and favor information that confirms their existing views. With declining global news coverage and the rise of personalized news feeds and social media, there is concern that our forms of information consumption do not support encountering sufficient …
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Algorithms vs. Human Nature: A Tale of Selective Exposure
… towards news websites and social media for news consumption has sparked anxiety over echo chambers, avoidance of opinion-challenging content, and potentially fragmentation and polarization among sociopolitical groups. Algorithms have specifically been blamed for increasing the ease of filtering …
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On information filtering in social sensing
… exceeds normal people’s cognitive capability of information consumption, thus we desire a system that can filter the massive sensing data and delivers only information and intelligence to the users with a human-consumable amount. In this thesis, I focus on designing an information filtering …
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Designing technologies for exposure to diverse opinions
… seeking of confirmatory over challenging information. This has prompted many scholars to warn about the rise of ""echo chambers"" and ""filter bubbles"" online, with individuals' easy control over information exposure enabled by digital technologies. Such concern has motivated HCI …
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Enabling access to and exploration of information graphs
Exploratory search is the new frontier of information consumption as it goes well beyond simple \emph{lookups}. Information repositories are ubiquitous and grow larger every day, and automated search systems help users find information in such collections. To extract knowledge from these …
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Transforming user data into user value by novel mining techniques for extraction of web content, structure and usage patterns. The Development and Evaluation of New Web Mining Methods that enhance Information Retrieval and improve the Understanding of User¿s Web Behavior in Websites and Social Blogs.
… one of the most significant and influential information revolution of modern times. The influence of the Web has impacted almost every aspect of humans' life, activities and fields, causing paradigm shifts and transformational changes in business, governance, and education. Moreover, the …
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Exploring History Education in Primary Schools and its Impact on Students’ Attitudes Toward Other Ethnic Groups in Divided Communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
… learning, reflecting the evolving trends in information consumption. Ultimately, the research's nuanced insights underscore the importance of adapting pedagogical approaches and curricula to foster empathy, unity, and a profound historical understanding within ethnically divided communities. …