We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of nearly 150 million tweets concerning 12 political and nonpolitical issues, explored whether online communication resembles an “echo chamber” (as a result of selective exposure and ideological segregation) or a “national conversation.” We observed that information was exchanged primarily among individuals ...

Slana, Virginia, "Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature" (2014).

The growth in the number of Chinese students Western universities has prompted academics to explore different pedagogical practices suitable for diverse classrooms. Some persisting contradictions between and Eastern conceptions education exist institutional structures that encounter daily. Designing appropriate curricular learning activities is crucial embedding international students’ experien...

Polarizing discussions on political and social issues are common in mass and user-generated media. However, computer-based understanding of ideological discourse has been considered too difficult to undertake. In this paper we propose a statistical model for ideology discourse. By ideology we mean “a set of general beliefs socially shared by a group of people.” For example, Democratic and Repub...

Ideological health education of college students is very important to their healthy growth and psychological development. The main problems in the ideological health education of college students are the three aspects including delinquent students, psychological problems and fragility/incapacity. Our analytical result suggested that the three problems are very similar to the three especial diff...

Ideology and its function in digital games has received considerable scholarly interest in the field of game studies, though only more recently has criticism interested itself with the ideological implications of game mechanics in conjunction with a game's representational content. Relying on an Althusserian definition of ideology, this paper builds upon the existing methodology of procedural r...

Four studies investigated a goal regulation view of anxious uncertainty threat (Gray & McNaughton, 2000) and ideological defense. Participants (N = 444) were randomly assigned to have achievement or relationship goals implicitly primed. The implicit goal primes were followed by randomly assigned achievement or relationship threats that have reliably caused generalized, reactive approach motivat...