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Emotion and Engagement Across the Idol Spectrum: Comparing Virtual and Human Idols
ABSTRACT The increasing adoption of virtual idols in entertainment platforms raises critical questions about how viewers respond to their emotional performances compared to human idols. Despite their growing presence, little is known about whether and how emotional expressivity differs across performer modalities and content formats, or how these ...
Lin Kim +4 more
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A Multidimensional Analysis of Political Homophily Among Politically Active Twitter Users in Uruguay
A key focus in the study of digital and social media in politics has been to investigate the homophily of online interactions and content exposure, often framed as the extent to which these platforms operate as echo chambers.
Martín Opertti, Juan A. Bogliaccini
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Stabilising Routines in Complex Emergencies: How Basic Service Continuity Shapes Perceived Security
ABSTRACT This study examines how locally embedded actors describe the relationship between basic service continuity and perceived security in complex emergencies, with particular attention to the stabilisation of everyday routines. Using Proximity‐Predictability‐Attributability (PPA) as an analytic lens, we trace how interviewees relate access to water,
Abdullah Gökhan Yaşa, Orçun İmga
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Stochastic Network Formation and Homophily [PDF]
This chapter surveys and synthesizes models of network formation based on random graphs and stochastic processes. The material is organized according to whether the population is treated as fixed or evolving. Fixed population models allow one to readily capture a range of network properties through random graphs.
PIN, PAOLO, Rogers, Brian W.
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Positive perceptions of invasive species can hinder effective management, especially if management efforts that are rooted in scientific theories are misaligned with local ecological knowledge. We documented local ecological knowledge about land invasibility as predicted by invasion biology theories. Participants with greater local ecological knowledge
Laurel Mael Philpott, Orou G. Gaoue
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Inequality and inequity in network-based ranking and recommendation algorithms
Though algorithms promise many benefits including efficiency, objectivity and accuracy, they may also introduce or amplify biases. Here we study two well-known algorithms, namely PageRank and Who-to-Follow (WTF), and show to what extent their ranks ...
Lisette Espín-Noboa +3 more
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ABSTRACT In 2026, some years after the Covid‐19 pandemic and the related economic crisis, the global landscape remains profoundly unsettled. Geopolitical conflicts, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts, continue to drive instability, reshaping global priorities and challenges.
Rosa Maria Dangelico +3 more
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Understanding actor collaboration networks and their evolution is essential to promoting collective action in resilience planning and management of interdependent infrastructure systems.
Qingchun Li, Ali Mostafavi
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Ethnic integration and the value of innovation
Abstract Research Summary Organizations have become increasingly ethnically diverse, and this diversity often brings together distinct technological competencies. Understanding how firms can leverage such diversity to produce valuable innovations therefore becomes essential.
Stefano Breschi +2 more
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Shifting standards due to social class? The role of social class background in CEO career outcomes
Abstract Research Summary This study investigates how social class background shapes CEO career outcomes. Extending the shifting standards model to post‐appointment evaluation, we theorize that CEOs from lower‐class backgrounds face persistently high confirmatory standards, producing asymmetric consequences.
Michelle Lee, Shelby L. Gai
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