Increasing Cancer Awareness Through BWS Social Media Activities

Social Awareness through New Media

Niket Mehta Research Scholar and Assistant Professor, Department of Animation and Multimedia, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Extension Centre Noida, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Dr. Suparna Dutta Associate Professor, (Humanities), Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Extension Centre Noida, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Dr. Asit Bandyopadhyay Associate Professor...

Situational Awareness from Social Media

This paper describes VIStology’s HADRian system for semantically integrating disparate information sources into a common operational picture (COP) for humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HADR) operations. Here the system is applied to the task of determining where unexploded or additional bombs were being reported via Twitter in the hours immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing in Ap...

World Cancer Day 2014: "Increasing The Awareness"

World Cancer Day (WCD) is celebrated on February 4th each year around the world to remind the efforts done by united nations, World Health Organization (WHO), and other governmental and non-governmental health organizations with the aim of delivering the real message about cancer and its treatments to fight against this fatal disease through uniting all the people on global basis (1-4). In brie...

Increasing Team Coordination and Social Motivation through Awareness Practices: a Case Study

People working in teams are vulnerable to so-called “process losses,” which occur when the team’s output is less than what could be produced given the capabilities of the team members. Teams can develop practices that provide awareness of each other’s activities, thereby enabling them to coordinate activities better and reducing one of these process losses – coordination loss. Such awareness is...

Enhancing Social TV through Social Media Mining