Social media posts may signal whether a protest will become violent
A USC-led study of violent protest has found that moral rhetoric on Twitter may signal whether a protest will turn violent.
A USC-led study of violent protest has found that moral rhetoric on Twitter may signal whether a protest will turn violent.
Social Sciences
May 23, 2018
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Social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook have inspired a new method of describing how other species interact with one another.
Ecology
May 17, 2018
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Social networking sites, such as Facebook, offer tools and activities that may help older adults feel more empowered and less isolated, according to researchers.
Social Sciences
May 1, 2018
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Using novel machine learning techniques, a research team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is teaching electronic devices how to speak for themselves.
Engineering
Apr 24, 2018
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A team of researchers is using network analysis techniques - popularized through social media applications - to find patterns in Earth's natural history, as detailed in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2018
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Understanding and isolating the factors in the recruitment to organised crime and terrorist networks is the ambitious mission of the PROTON project. The first step in this three-year-long venture is, of course, to investigate ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2018
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If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product.
Internet
Apr 16, 2018
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Facebook recently announced dramatic data access restrictions on its app and website. The company framed the lockdown as an attempt to protect user information, in response to the public outcry following the Cambridge Analytica ...
Internet
Apr 11, 2018
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg was set for a fiery face-off on Capitol Hill Tuesday as he attempts to quell a firestorm over privacy and security lapses at the social network that have angered lawmakers and the site's two ...
Internet
Apr 10, 2018
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On the evening of 17 February 2018, Professor Mary Beard posted on Twitter a photograph of herself crying. The eminent University of Cambridge classicist, who has almost 200,000 Twitter followers, was distraught after receiving ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2018
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