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From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series

International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2010
We connect measures of public opinion measured from polls with sentiment measured from text. We analyze several surveys on consumer confidence and political opinion over the 2008 to 2009 period, and find they correlate to sentiment word frequencies in ...
Brendan T. O'Connor, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith   +3 more
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Escape from Poverty: Obstacles Preventing NGOs from Becoming Fully Fledged Service Providers in the Area of Social Protection in Serbia

Stanovništvo, 2008
The paper deals with possible solutions of problems affecting particularly vulnerable parts of the population – the elderly, poor, and refugees, among others.
Aleksandar Bošković
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Can online exemplars trigger a spiral of silence? Examining the effects of exemplar opinions on perceptions of public opinion and speaking out

New Media & Society, 2017
In modern media environments, social media have fundamentally altered the way how individual opinions find their way into the public sphere. We link spiral of silence theory to exemplification research and investigate the effects of online opinions on ...
Thomas Zerback, N. Fawzi
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Not Only Social Networks: Channels of Dissemination of Fake News in the Views of the Population

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
This article presents an analysis of the problem of the spread of fake news in modern society. The dissemination of fictitious, unreliable information harms public trust, leading to uncontrollable consequences.
Sergey G. Ushkin
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Visual transformer with depthwise separable convolution projections for video-based human action recognition [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences
Human action recognition is a task that utilizes algorithms to recognize human actions from videos. Transformer-based algorithms have attracted growing attention in recent years.
Cao Yu, Wang Fang, Zheng Qiusheng
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Will human-like features effect the adoption of generative AI tools? A study in Chinese University students

Frontiers in Education
IntroductionAdopting an information behavior perspective, this study reveals the mechanisms influencing college students' behavioral intention to use Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools.MethodsFocusing on the behavioral intention of college ...
Chao Cao, Chao Cao, Chao Cao, Ziyu Li, Mang Ni, Fanglu Luo, Fanglu Luo, Chunyu Ling   +7 more
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The Elephant in the Room: Prior Exposure to Misinformation and Correction Effect

SAGE Open
Prior exposure to misinformation has been shown to increase beliefs associated with that misinformation when it is seen again, which is called the repetition effect, a phenomenon not unusual but understudied.
Tianjiao Wang, Wenting Yu
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OPINION QUALITY IN PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH [PDF]

International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 1997
Neijens, P.C., Price, V.E.
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Affective Governance Through Ritual Praxis: A Comparative Study of Confucian Sacrificial Systems and Western Social Cohesion Theories

Religions
Sacrificial rituals provide a critical perspective for examining the fundamental characteristics and evolutionary trajectory of Chinese civilization. The Functionalist and Annales schools, through theoretical frameworks such as “natural necessity theory”
Chao Jia, Jingting Zhang
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Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
James N. Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matthew Levendusky, J. Ryan   +4 more
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