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Effects of Mass Media and Cultural Drift in a Model for Social Influence [PDF]
Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 18, 1475 (2007), 2006 In the context of an extension of Axelrod's model for social influence, we study the interplay and competition between the cultural drift, represented as random perturbations, and mass media, introduced by means of an external homogeneous field. Unlike previous studies [J. C. Gonz\'alez-Avella {\it et al}, Phys. Rev.
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Noosphere: Does the Internet Provide an Evolutionary Leap to a Higher Level of Collective Intelligence? [PDF]
In Medias Res, 2015 The neologism noosphere signifies global human consciousness. According to T. de Chardin, it is the third stage in the development of the earth, after the geosphere and the biosphere.
Tatjana Milivojević +2 more
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Neuronal micro-culture engineering by microchannel devices of cellular scale dimensions [PDF]
Biomedical Engineering Letters, May 2011, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp
89-98, 2015 Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effect of microchannel geometry on neuronal cultures and to maintain these cultures for long period of time (over several weeks) inside the closed microchannels of cellular scale dimensions.
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Media and Communication, 2022 Addressing the particular context of China, this article has two aims. First, it offers reflections on the possibilities and limitations of using user-generated short videos (vlogs) as research data both methodologically and ethically.
Guanqin He, Koen Leurs, Yongjian Li
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The invisible and underestimated contributions to creative achievements [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2019 Creativity is a highly estimated value and an increasingly present topic in contemporary educational, economic, political and media discourses. It is not only considered as a valuable individual quality but as an important company and states competitive ...
Milivojević Tatjana, Manić Ljiljana
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Nonequilibrium transition induced by mass media in a model for social influence [PDF]
Phys. Rev E. 72, 065102 (2005), 2005 We study the effect of mass media, modeled as an applied external field, on a social system based on Axelrod's model for the dissemination of culture. The numerical simulations show that the system undergoes a nonequilibrium phase transition between an ordered phase (homogeneous culture) specified by the mass media and a disordered (culturally ...
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Fotocinema: Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía, 2022 This article reviews the development of a visual archive within the scope of a funded project Wisdom Transfer that was realised at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FBAUP), University of Porto, in Portugal from 2018 to 2021.
Cláudia Lima +2 more
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Preservation of Indigenous Culture among Indigenous Migrants through Social Media: the Igorot Peoples [PDF]
Botangen, K.A., Vodanovich, S. and Yu, J., 2017, January.
Preservation of Indigenous Culture among Indigenous Migrants through Social
Media: The Igorot Peoples. In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences, 2018 The value and relevance of indigenous knowledge towards sustainability of human societies drives for its preservation. This work explored the use of Facebook groups to promote indigenous knowledge among Igorot peoples in the diaspora. The virtual communities help intensify the connection of Igorot migrants to their traditional culture despite the ...
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Proceedings, 2018 The broad integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in students’ and teachers’ lives requires education professionals to think of new ways to provide teaching and learning opportunities.
Angela Novoa-Echaurren +1 more
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Cultural journalists on social media [PDF]
MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research, 2018 This article investigates the use of social media among a particular group of journalists: cultural journalists. Combining research on social media journalism with research on cultural journalism and applying a mix-method approach, the study shows that use of social media is still a fairly random practice in cultural newsrooms.
Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Unni From
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