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Concientization among People in Support and Opposition of President Trump

Civic engagement in the United States has increased since the election of President Trump. This increase is evident online as people are using Twitter to assert their digital citizenship by voicing their opinions regarding President Donald J. Trump and demonstrating solidarity with various civic movements. President Trump’s election has caused many people to recognize how policies impact their ...

Higher Education in the Digital Age

William G. Bowen is President Emeritus of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former president of Princeton University and founding chairman of ITHAKA.1 Over his long career he has enriched academic (and general) community with contributions on topics such as class inequalities in higher education, college sports at all levels, and completion rates in higher education. He also gave a very valuable...

Evaluating Public Discussion of Occupying Wall Street on Twitter: Linking Twitter Streams with Search Quires, Opinion Polls, Media Coverage, and Stock Market Index

To evaluate the public opinion expression of occupying Wall Street on Twitter, this paper aims to investigate time series of tweet stream, search query, media coverage, stock market, and opinion polls. The findings reveals that: first, the dynamic change of total tweet stream, retweets, discussions, and hashtags are parallel; second, tweet stream and search query are strongly correlated, while ...

The Power of Social Media in Developing Nations: New Tools for Closing the Global Digital Divide and Beyond

On January 28, 2011, Egypt’s President, Hosni Mubarak, took the drastic and unprecedented step of shutting off the Internet for five days across an entire nation. His reason for doing so was simple: to halt the flow of communication and coordinated assembly taking place over social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter. That Mubarak took this desperate step — which cost Egypt an estimated ...

Message from the IOMP President, Dr. Kin Yin Cheung and the Chairman of the IOMP Education and Training Committee, Prof. John Damilakis on November 7, 2013: “International Day of Medical Physics”