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The science of rumors

open access: yesAnnals of Geophysics, 2012
This study takes a soft scientific cut to talks about rumors, hoaxes and urban legends. Social psychology, more elegantly, uses the latin word rumor (rumour in British English), which means sound, voice, or gossip. In social, economical, political, cultural and scientific communication, rumors indicate news that is presumed true, that circulates ...
Crescimbene, Massimo   +2 more
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Rumors

open access: yes, 1995
Digital images of Rumors, a Neil Simon play presented by Whittier College’s Theatre Department. The play was directed by Jack de Vries and ran October 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22.
College, Whittier
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Espionage, Adultery, and Witchcraft: Rumor and Imagination Transplant in the Anti-Catholic Persecution of Late Ming China

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
Catholic missionaries have suffered numerous persecutions since their arrival in Ming China in 1583. Rumors which functioned either as the causation or as the main content of the accusations against Catholic missionaries played a vital role in the rise ...
Sun Xuliang
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The Event Research in the Effect of Clear Rumor Declarations on Abnormal Stock Returns Behavior [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Finance, 2021
In this research, the impact of clear rumor declarations on the measurement of abnormal stock returns behavior has been investigated in Tehran Stock Market by means of event research so that to reveal well abnormal stock returns behavior.
Javid Hatam   +3 more
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Are Rumors Always False?: Understanding Rumors Across Domains, Queries, and Ratings

open access: yes, 2022
Rumors are increasingly becoming a critical issue on the Web threatening democracy, economics, and society on a global scale. With the advance of social media networks, people are sharing content in an unprecedented scale.
Xuan Truong Du Chau   +7 more
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New Insights Into the Social Rumor Characteristics During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundIn the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, several social rumors in the form of false news, conspiracy theories, and magical cures had ever been shared and spread among the general public at an alarming rate, causing public panic and
Wei Lv   +4 more
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A Novel Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Detecting COVID-19-Related Rumors on Social Media Based on LSTM and Concatenated Parallel CNNs

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Spreading rumors in social media is considered under cybercrimes that affect people, societies, and governments. For instance, some criminals create rumors and send them on the internet, then other people help them to spread it.
Mohammed Al-Sarem   +4 more
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Employees’ Information Exchanges in Virtual Groups and Their Belief in Rumors and Their Dissemination in Cyberspace: Information Cascade Approach and Group Polarization [PDF]

open access: yesفرایند مدیریت و توسعه, 2021
Purpose: The spread of internet and social networks has increased the number and speed of online rumors. In order to take more effective measures to deal with the negative effects of rumors, researchers and organizations must be aware of the main ...
Morteza Moradi, Rabeah Zandipak
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الشائعات في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي وسبل مواجهتها من منظور السنة النبوية [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة كلية الدراسات الإسلامية والعربية للبنات بدمنهور, 2018
لمستخلص اسم الباحثة : حنان حسن عبد الرحمن الخشت اسم البحث : الشائعات في مواقع التواصل االجتماعي وسبل مواجهتها من منظور السنة النبوية. مقدمة : الشائعات هي أخبار زائفة تنتشر بشکل سريع بين أفراد المجتمع ظناً منهم بصحتها وهى قديمة قدم اإلنسان ، إال أنها وجدت
حنان حسن عبد الرحمن الخشت
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Social Media Rumors in Bangladesh

open access: yesJournal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2020
This study analyzes N=181 social media rumors from Bangladesh to find out the most popular themes, sources, and aims. The result shows that social media rumors have seven popular themes: political, health & education, crime & human rights, religious ...
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman   +5 more
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