A team of researchers affiliated with a range of institutions in the U.S. and one in Kenya has conducted an analysis of the impact of a massive digital ad campaign run prior to the U.S. presidential election between Joe Biden ...
USC researchers may have found the biggest influencer in the spread of fake news: social platforms' structure of rewarding users for habitually sharing information.
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2023
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A study published in Nature Communications and directed by Professor Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Director of the Center for Complex Network Intelligence (CCNI) at the Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence, proposes ...
Mathematics
Jan 17, 2023
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When it comes to hiring, it can be a challenge for an employer to find the perfect person for the job. As a result, organizations often utilize personality scales as an aid in determining whether a candidate is the right ...
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2023
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A new North Carolina State University study shows the potential for using Twitter and online news articles to track the timing and location of invasive insect spread in the United States and around the globe. Researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2023
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People who turn to social media to escape from superficial boredom are unwittingly preventing themselves from progressing to a state of profound boredom, which may open the door to more creative and meaningful activity, a ...
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2022
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In experiments using made-up tweets, participants rated the trustworthiness of faces paired with positive news headlines more highly than faces paired with negative headlines.
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2022
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A USC study of Instagram shows that a picture and a video are worth more than just a thousand words. They can fuel a human rights movement.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2022
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Participants in new research conducted by Royal Holloway and the Warburg Institute, both University of London, were likely to trust artificially generated faces, known as generative adversarial network (GAN) faces, than real ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2022
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A new experimental task, involving a mock social networking site, can group people into three distinct styles of social media use—passive, reactive and interactive.
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2022
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