Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook
Fake news sharing in 2016 was rare but significantly more common among older Americans. So-called “fake news” has renewed concerns about the prevalence and effects of misinformation in political campaigns. Given the potential for widespread dissemination
A. Guess+2 more
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Election Campaigning on Social Media: Politicians, Audiences, and the Mediation of Political Communication on Facebook and Twitter [PDF]
Although considerable research has concentrated on online campaigning, it is still unclear how politicians use different social media platforms in political communication.
Sebastian Stier+3 more
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A graphical method of cumulative differences between two subpopulations
Comparing the differences in outcomes (that is, in “dependent variables”) between two subpopulations is often most informative when comparing outcomes only for individuals from the subpopulations who are similar according to “independent variables.” The ...
Mark Tygert
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Going Deeper in Spiking Neural Networks: VGG and Residual Architectures
Over the past few years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have become popular as a possible pathway to enable low-power event-driven neuromorphic hardware.
Abhronil Sengupta+4 more
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Type Classes for Lightweight Substructural Types [PDF]
Linear and substructural types are powerful tools, but adding them to standard functional programming languages often means introducing extra annotations and typing machinery.
Edward Gan, Jesse A. Tov, Greg Morrisett
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The impact of Facebook use on micro-level social capital: a synthesis [PDF]
The relationship between Facebook use and micro-level social capital has received substantial scholarly attention over the past decade. This attention has resulted in a large body of empirical work that gives insight into the nature of Facebook as a ...
Antheunis, Marjolijn+2 more
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Facebook-to-Facebook: online communication and economic cooperation [PDF]
Direct face-to-face communication has traditionally been found to be more effective for fostering economic cooperation than any form of indirect, mediated communication.
Anna Lou Abatayo+2 more
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Cumulative deviation of a subpopulation from the full population
Assessing equity in treatment of a subpopulation often involves assigning numerical “scores” to all individuals in the full population such that similar individuals get similar scores; matching via propensity scores or appropriate covariates is common ...
Mark Tygert
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Exploring the commercial value of social networks: enhancing consumers’ brand experience through Facebook pages [PDF]
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors which impact upon the consumers’ willingness to utilise company Facebook pages and e-word-of mouth by proposing and testing a conceptual framework which is inspired by theories in ...
Chen, Hsin+4 more
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Abstract Worker voice tools can support multinational companies to monitor social compliance within complex multi‐tier apparel supply chains. This study presents findings from an adaptation of a worker voice tool that contacted 11,555 workers in two informal ‘Ready‐made Garment’ (RMG) production hubs in Bangladesh.
Sheila Chanani+4 more
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