Abstract During violent conflict, the evaluation of information sources often presents a complex challenge. Social interactions play critical role for mediating audiences’ trust as they negotiate contested spreading across media and social networks. This study uses focus groups individual interviews, conducted in propaganda-saturated environment Russian–Ukrainian to investigate how audiences de...

Social media allow people to express and promote different opinions, on which people’s sentiments to a subject often diverge when their opinions conflict. An intuitive visualization that unfolds the process of sentiment divergence from the rich and massive social media data will have far-reaching impact on various domains including social science, politics and economics. In this paper, we propo...

The article presents and analyzes the positions of such Western media as CNN, BBC, EuroNews regarding civil conflict in Yemen. key events topics that are revealed these highlighted. general distinct features materials covering Yemen given. In conclusion, it was stated although is not so “popular”, there quite a lot Yemeni war mainstream West. However, some media, particular CNN reviewed by this...

Media data has been the subject of large scale analysis with applications of text mining being used to provide overviews of media themes and information flows. Such information extracted from media articles has also shown its contextual value of being integrated with other data, such as criminal records and stock market pricing. In this work, we explore linking textual media data with curated s...

The relevance of the study is determined by need to modern Syrian media system in conditions a long-term armed conflict Syria. object research scientific literature devoted studies. subject interpretation concept "media system" contained works Russian, Western and Arab authors context media. purpose define applicable To achieve study, authors, having set number criteria, conduct comparative ana...

We have developed PeerStreaming, a receiver-driven peer-topeer (P2P) media streaming system. Recognizing the fact that the peer is performing a favor for the client and the server during the streaming session, the design philosophy of PeerStreaming is to ensure that the peer is lightweight and the P2P network is loosely coupled. The peer performs simple operations, and may elect to cache only p...