The role of algorithms in the detection, curation and broadcast of news is becoming increasingly prevalent. To better understand this role we developed CityBeat, a system that implements what we call “editorial algorithms” to find possible news events. This fully functional system collects real time geo-tagged information from social media, finds key stories, makes an editorial decision whether...

Measuring the impact of the media The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. King et al. performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic (see the Policy Forum by Gentzkow). Social media posts increased by almost 20% the fi...

Between 1884 and 1936, Rudyard Kipling wrote over 300 short stories, most of which were first published in colonial cosmopolitan periodicals before being reissued short-story collections. This corpus contains a number critically neglected Gothic stories that fall into four groups: belong to the ghost-story tradition; represent encounter through gothic tropes horror uncanny but do not necessaril...

Online news media sites are emerging as the primary source of news for a large number of users. The selection of ‘frontpage’ stories on these media sites usually takes into consideration several crowdsourced popularity metrics, such as number of views or shares by the readers. In this work, we focus on automatically recommending front-page stories in such media websites. When recommending news ...

We review current knowledge about adolescent Internet-mediated victimization, including Internet-initiated sex crimes in which offenders use the Internet to meet victims, unwanted online sexual solicitations, Internet harassment, and unwanted and wanted exposure to online pornography. Internet-initiated sex crimes have received considerable publicity, but the media stories have contributed to s...

When reasoning about the facts of a case, we typically use stories to link the known events into coherent wholes. One way to establish coherence is to appeal to past examples, real or fictitious. These examples can be chosen and critiqued using the case-based reasoning (CBR) techniques from the AI and Law literature. In this paper, we apply these techniques to factual stories, assessing a story...

In this paper we describe experiments of real-time facial animation for generation of various virtual actors using high level-actions, compatible with MPEG-4 standard specifications. An MPEG-4 compatible synthetic face and body are integrated into an interactive real-time application allowing the user-friendly control of virtual humans' facial animation and its speech in real-time. This applica...

When reasoning about the facts of a case, we typically use stories to link the known events into coherent wholes. One way to establish coherence is to appeal to past examples, real or fictitious. These examples can be chosen and critiqued using the case-based reasoning (CBR) techniques from the AI and Law literature. In this paper, we apply these techniques to factual stories, assessing a story...

Automatic story generation is the subject of a growing research effort. However, in this domain, stories are generally produced from fictional data. In this paper, we present a task model used for automatic story generation from real data focusing on the narrative planning. The aim is to generate récits (stories) from sensors data acquired during a ski sortie. The model and some preliminary ana...

To better understand how young Alaska Native (Inupiaq) people are creatively responding to the tensions of growing up in a world markedly different from that of their parents and grandparents, the pilot study examined youthproduced digital stories as representations of their everyday lives, values, and identities. Two hundred and seventy-one youth–produced digital stories were examined and assi...