Critics and Reviews

Design reviews with remote critics in an asynchronous environment

INTRODUCTION A familiar activity to students of design is the design review – where students present their work-to-date to receive feedback and guidance from others. They take place throughout the term, providing students with multiple opportunities to present and develop their ideas (Schön, 1987). At Georgia Tech, we have been exploring how simple technologies can be used to increase opportuni...

Rorty and His Critics

Impact of user-generated and professional critics reviews on Bollywood movie success

User generated (e.g., peer-to-peer or word-of-mouth) reviews and professional experts’ reviews are important sources of external information that consumers use in making consumption decisions, but studies of their simultaneous effects is scarce. We develop a conceptual model for hypothesizing the simultaneous effects of the volume and valence of user and expert reviews on sales (i.e., box-offic...

Tool of the Intelligence Economic: Recognition Function of Reviews Critics - Extraction and Linguistic Analysis of Sentiments

This paper describes the part of recommender system designed for movies’ critics recognition. Such a system allows the automatic collection, evaluation and rating of critics and opinions of the movies. First the system searches and retrieves texts supposed to be movies’ reviews from the Internet. Subsequently the system carries out an evaluation and rating of movies’ critics. Finally the system...

Democracy and Its Critics