Background: Today, information resources play of paramount importance role in providing information and public awareness. COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease and general precautions and identifying the factors influencing the self-care behaviors play an important role in the prevention of the disease. This study aimed to assess the relationship between trust in information resources and sel...

In recent times, social media has become a popular medium for many election campaigns. It not only allows candidates to reach out to a large section of the electorate, it is also a potent medium for people to express their opinion on the proposed policies and promises of candidates. Analyzing social media data is challenging as the text can be noisy, sparse and even multilingual. In addition, t...

In this paper, we describe how people living in armedconflict environments use social media as a participatory news platform. We investigate this by analyzing the microblogging practices of people living amid the Mexican Drug War. This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the phenomenon by mixing quantitative observations, content analysis, interviews, and case studies. We characterize the ...

Global Virtual Teams (GVT) typically includes members from culturally different countries, who differ in the views of their relation to authority, time, work ethics, and perception of communication technologies. These cultural differences play an important role in shaping both an individual member’s and a team’s preference of a particular media to be used for communication in a GVT environment....

In this workshop paper, we examined how non-equivalent communication technologies impact on trust in partially distributed conceptual design teams. To incorporate the uniqueness of partially distributed team setting, we distinguished trust into two categories, which were trust towards distant partners (distant trust) and trust towards colocated partners (co-located trust). Findings revealed tha...

Since anonymous agents can spread misinformation with impunity, many people advocate for greater accountability for internet speech. This paper provides a veritistic argument that accountability mechanisms can cause significant epistemic problems for internet encyclopedias and social media communities. I show that accountability mechanisms can undermine both the dissemination of true beliefs an...

Abstract This research utilizes a lexicon-based sentiment analysis to reveal the emotions conveyed by various news media and analyze differences among media. NRC Affect Intensity Lexicon is utilized; it provides of words in 8 categories emotions. The lexicon modified reflect context news, i.e., COVID-19 pandemic. Tweets are collected from four Indonesia’s three international English-language Ea...