Online Media Within the Public Service Realm?

Judging in the Public Realm

Multi - cultural Switzerland – multicultural public service media ?

In this article a special attention is paid to the to the role of public service broadcaster in cultural diversity societies. The main aims of the author was answering the following questions: how cultural pluralism is implemented by the public service broadcaster in Switzerland? How the Swiss PSB implements the principle of cultural pluralism, particularly in the context of the access of natio...

Has the Online Discussion Been Manipulated? Quantifying Online Discussion Authenticity within Online Social Media

Online social media (OSM) has a enormous influence in today’s world. Some individuals view OSM as fertile ground for abuse and use it to disseminate misinformation and political propaganda, slander competitors, and spread spam. The crowdturfing industry employs large numbers of bots and human workers to manipulate OSM and misrepresent public opinion. The detection of online discussion topics ma...

[Access to pulmonary rehabilitation programs within the public healthcare service].

I congratulate the authors for providing the “Clinical Practice Guidelines: physical therapy practice among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)”1. These guidelines, together with other national and international studies, have successfully shown, with strong evidence, the role of physical therapists in this growing public health problem. However, routine access to such pro...

Finding Public Opinion Manipulation Trolls in Bulgarian Online News Media

With the rise of social media, it became normal for people to read and follow other users' opinion. This created the opportunity for corporations, governments and others to distribute rumors, misinformation, and speculation and to use other dishonest practices to manipulate public opinion (Derczynski and Bontcheva , 2014). They could consistently use trolls (Cambria, Chandra and Sharma , 2010),...