Data in Context: Aiding News Consumers while Taming Dataspaces

First as Farce, Then as Filmfarsi: Film Adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in Iran

This article is concerned with William Shakespeare’s famous farce play The Taming of the Shrew and its Persian adaptation as an Iranian film called Gorbe ra dame Hejleh Mikoshand in 1969. The point that informs the inquiry is the way the film departs and differs from the play in relation to the issue of women within the patriarchal society. The play and the film will be examined separately in d...

Taming the cost of health care.

Demand for (Un)Biased News: Government Control in Online News Markets∗

Anecdotal evidence suggests consumers navigate to news outlets that are government controlled (GC) and pro-government biased even in the presence of independent news outlets. Does this imply a demand for pro-government bias in the news? Or do consumers enjoy other aspects of GC news outlets such as quality or brand? To answer these questions, we examine consumers’ demand in the Russian online n...

Event Panning in a Stream of Big Data

In this paper, we present a hands-on experience report from designing and building an architecture for preprocessing & delivering real-time social-media messages in the context of a large international sporting event. In contrast to the standard topic-centred approach, we apply social community analytics to filter, segregate and rank an incoming stream of Twitter messages for display on a mobil...

Examining the Moderating Role of Gender on the Relationship between the Benefits of Sales Promotion and Consumer Perception

Is the impact of sales promotion on consumer perception mediated by its hedonic and utilitarian benefits in the context of Indian consumers?  Is gender having a moderating impact on the relationship between the benefits of sales promotion and consumer perception?  Authors examined both questions using a partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Findings revealed that hedonic ...