Information about the degree of one’s genetic overlap with ethnic outgroups has been emphasized in genocides, is frequently learned about through media reporting, and is increasingly being accessed via personal genetic testing services. However, the consequence of learning about whether your own ethnic group is either genetically related to or genetically distinct from a disliked ethnic group r...

In the summer of 2013, Brazil experienced a period of conflict triggered by a series of protests. While the popular press covered the events, little empirical work has investigated how first-hand reporting of the protests occurred and evolved over social media and how such exposure in turn impacted the demonstrations themselves. In this study we examine over 42 million tweets shared during the ...

L ike all wars, the Kosovo conflict was a terrible one. One night, most Belgian TV stations had agreed to join efforts in organizing a telethon in favor of the refugees. As I watched the show, one thing intrigued me. A few years before, media were quick to emphasize that Bosnian “victims” were Muslims. The atrocities inflicted on Kosovars by the Serbs seemed similar, so why did the reports fail...

This study aims to develop a set of android CMS (Conflict Management Style) find out the style managing conflict among high school students as an important information reduce appropriately and responsibly that meets assessment criteria acceptability includes aspects usability, feasibility, accuracy propriety. research uses Borg & Gall development method which includes: (1) preliminary studi...

We explore the limits of petitions and public protests as mechanisms to aggregate dispersed information. We show that if citizens’ signals are not sufficiently precise, information aggregation is impossible, even if the conflict with the policy-maker is small, no matter how large is the population of informed citizens. We characterize the conditions on conflict and the signal structure that gua...

This article describes an interactive video installation that was developed to inform and engage people about one of the most upsetting geopolitical issues of our time: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Several layers of maps information have been employed into a computer application, which was programmed with the open source tool Processing. The video installation was chosen as a medium, to ac...

A major hindrance in the popularization of 3D stereoscopic media is the high rate of motion sickness reported during use of VR technology. While the exact factors underlying this phenomenon are unknown, the dominant framework for explaining general motion sickness (‘‘cue-conflict” theory) predicts that individual differences in sensory system sensitivity should be correlated with experienced di...

Various authors on the media coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict assert that it is biased and unbalanced. This study focuses on the representation of the First and Second Intifada in Flemish daily newspapers. It combines a content analysis with in-depth interviews with journalists to investigate any imbalance and bias in favour of the Israeli point of view. The results reveal a certain...

Social media technologies have grown from the personal recreation tools of college students to systems that can benefit business. In addition to using social networking to market, sell, and manage external stakeholder relationships, some organizations are leveraging social networking’s communication and collaboration tools to improve internal operations. However, implementing social networking ...

Information about the degree of one's genetic overlap with ethnic outgroups has been emphasized in genocides, is frequently learned about through media reporting, and is increasingly being accessed via personal genetic testing services. However, the consequence of learning about whether your own ethnic group is either genetically related to or genetically distinct from a disliked ethnic group r...