Radicalism Prevention through Propaganda Awareness on Social Media

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...

Peddling Influence through Intermediaries: Propaganda∗

Information may be transmitted directly from a sender to a receiver, or indirectly through intermediaries. How do intermediaries affect the reporting truthfulness of an informed sender? When does he prefer using intermediaries? In this model, an objective sender or intermediary passes on information truthfully, while a biased one wants to push a particular agenda but also has reputational conce...

Improving cardiovascular prevention through patient awareness.

OBJECTIVE Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) or coronary artery disease (CAD) must have their risk factors rigorously controlled, but there is a gap between practice and ideal. This study aimed to demonstrate how cardiovascular prevention is performed for these patients in a Brazilian university hospital, and to identify predictors of good practice. METHODS 192 patients with CAD or...

Enhancing Social TV through Social Media Mining