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Representation of Urban Myth-Making in Social Media
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2022 The article is devoted to the problems of representation of urban myth-making in social networks. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the representation of urban myth-making in social networks on the example of myth-making activity ...
Darya V. Meretina, Irina V. Kucheruk
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Social Studies of Science, 2014 Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertaining ways that we can think of them as academic urban legends.
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The Legend of the Old Man and the Packet of Jaffa Biscuits
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2010 The urban legend that tells of how a young person ate by mistake some biscuits belonging to an old man sitting on the same bench in a Belgrade park is a transformation of an urban legend whose British version features an elderly British lady and a young ...
Ivan Kovačević
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Některé shodné motivy městských legend v Bulharsku a v České republice [PDF]
Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2020 The presented article identifies and compares several shared motifs of urban legends in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The legends are classified into following thematic groups: 1) mysterious narratives and encounters with preternatural creatures ...
Rosina Kokudeva
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Polskie urban fantasy. Szkic o mieście i miejskości
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica, 2021 Fantastyka miejska cieszy się coraz większym zainteresowaniem czytelników, pozostając jednocześnie na marginesie badań naukowych. Artykuł miał na celu skonkretyzowanie, z czego wywodzi się fantastyka miejska oraz jakie są jej cechy konstytutywne, a ...
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk
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Sewer Alligators: Urban Legends as Cognitive Maps
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2007 Following the reports of sewer alligators in the 1930s, the story has built up over the decades and become a bona fide urban legend. These (reports) are based upon stories of alligator, and other wild animal sightings in rather unorthodox locations ...
Ljubomir Hristić
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Legends of Organ Theft: The Moral Dilemma of Organ Donation
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2007 Legends and rumors of organ theft became a global phenomenon in the beginning of the 80s, with the information originating from the “third world” countries. Victims where poor and powerless, typically children. The rumor engaged a series of actions from
Dragana Antonijević
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The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, Accepted Article., 2022 Abstract Hypertension guidelines recommend measuring blood pressure (BP) in both arms at least once. However, this is seldom done due to uncertainties regarding measurement procedure and the implications of finding a clinically important inter‐arm BP difference (IAD).
Gurpreet S. Wander +19 more
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Evaluation of the Cartographical Quality of Urban Plans by Eye-Tracking
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018 This paper describes a study of the evaluation of cartographic quality of urban plans in the Czech Republic using eye-tracking. Although map visualization is a crucial part of the urban planning process, only a few studies have focused on the evaluation ...
Jaroslav Burian +2 more
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Fact-checking strategies to limit urban legends spreading in a segregated society
Applied Network Science, 2019 We propose a framework to study the spreading of urban legends, i.e., false stories that become persistent in a local popular culture, where social groups are naturally segregated by virtue of many (both mutable and immutable) attributes.
Marcella Tambuscio, Giancarlo Ruffo
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