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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Probabilistic Analysis of Rumor Spreading Time [PDF]
, 2017 The context of this work is the well studied dissemination of information in large scale distributed networks through pairwise interactions. This problem, originally called rumor mongering, and then rumor spreading has mainly been investigated in the ...
Sericola, Bruno +2 more
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Social Media Rumor Refuter Feature Analysis and Crowd Identification Based on XGBoost and NLP
Applied Sciences, 2020 One prominent dark side of online information behavior is the spreading of rumors. The feature analysis and crowd identification of social media rumor refuters based on machine learning methods can shed light on the rumor refutation process.
Zongmin Li +3 more
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Simple and Optimal Fault-Tolerant Rumor Spreading [PDF]
, 2013 We present rumor spreading protocols for the complete graph topology that are robust against an arbitrary number of adversarial initial node failures. Our protocols are the first rumor spreading protocols combining the following three properties: they ...
Doerr, C. +6 more
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent +2 more
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The Impact of Media Coverage and Emergency Strategies on the Rumor Spreading
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2018 On the basis of nonlinear dynamic model, we research the propagation of rumors after emergencies, describe the impact of media coverage and emergency strategies by government on the transmission dynamics of information, and then obtain the basic ...
Liang’an Huo, Yingying Cheng
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Dynamics of a delayed rumor spreading model with discontinuous threshold control. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Li C, Ma Z, Wang Y.
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How asynchrony affects rumor spreading time [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceIn standard randomized (push-pull) rumor spreading, nodes communicate in synchronized rounds. In each round every node contacts a random neighbor in order to exchange the rumor (i.e., either push the rumor to its neighbor or pull it
Nazari, Yasamin +5 more
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Mining the Hidden Link Structure from Distribution Flows for a Spatial Social Network
Complexity, 2019 This study aims at developing a non-(semi-)parametric method to extract the hidden network structure from the {0,1}-valued distribution flow data with missing observations on the links between nodes.
Yanqiao Zheng +4 more
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