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Hate speech’s double damage: A semi-automated approach toward direct and indirect targets

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
Democracies around the world have been facing increasing challenges with hate speech online as it contributes to a tense and thus less discursive public sphere.
Mario Haim, Elisa Hoven
doaj   +1 more source

Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of ‘being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop.

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
When building a global brand of any kind—a political actor, clothing style, or belief system— developing widespread awareness is a primary goal. Short of knowing any of the stories or products of a brand, being talked about in whatever fashion—raw
Peter Dodds   +7 more
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Googling for Abortion: Search Engine Mediation of Abortion Accessibility in the United States

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
Among the myriad barriers to abortion access, crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) pose an additional difficulty by targeting women with unexpected or “crisis” pregnancies in order to dissuade them from the procedure.
Yelena Mejova   +2 more
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PolyHope: Two-level hope speech detection from tweets [PDF]

open access: yesExpert systems with applications, 2022
Hope is characterized as openness of spirit toward the future, a desire, expectation, and wish for something to happen or to be true that remarkably affects human's state of mind, emotions, behaviors, and decisions.
F. Balouchzahi, G. Sidorov, A. Gelbukh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is sharing just a function of viewing? The sharing of political and non-political news on Facebook

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
How is political news shared online? This fundamental question for political communication research in today’s news ecology is still poorly understood.
Damian Trilling   +9 more
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Tweeting on Presidential Coattails: Congressional Candidate Use of Twitter in the 2020 Elections

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
There is a long history of political science research focused on congressional candidates riding presidential coattails into office. The underlying theory for this potential relationship is relatively simple—when presidential nominees are popular, they ...
Evan Crawford   +2 more
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A Typology-Based Approach to Tracing-App Adoption During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the SwissCovid App

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021
Contact tracing technology has been introduced in many countries as part of the COVID-19 containment strategy. However, research indicates that current adoption rates are too low for tracing apps to be effective.
Sarah Geber, Thomas Friemel
doaj   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Peptides: A New Hope in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Fields

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021
Antibiotics are essential drugs used to treat pathogenic bacteria, but their prolonged use contributes to the development and spread of drug-resistant microorganisms.
A. Moretta   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Decentralized yet Unifying: Digital Media and Solidarity in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Movement

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
Can decentralized, digitally-enabled movements sustain solidarity over time? What is the role of digital media in such a process? Existing studies point to the tendency of such movements towards fragmentation.
Brian Leung, Yuan Hsiao, Kiran Garimella
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The Times They Are Rarely A-Changin'

open access: yesJournal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021
This paper uses geolocated Twitter histories from approximately 25,000 individuals in 6 different time zones and 3 different countries to construct a proper time-zone dependent hourly baseline for social media activity studies.
Sean Kates   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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