This work studies engagement, or watching behavior in online videos. Most current work focuses on modeling views, which is known to be an inadequate measure of engagement and video quality due to different viewing behavior and spam views. More broadly, engagement has been measured in reading behavior of news and web pages, click-through in online ads, but not for videos. We study a set of engag...

In-game protests are a dynamic part of a burgeoning global cartography of activism and mass mobilisation unfolding across virtual worlds. Such protests nonetheless deserve to be negotiated on their own specific terms if only because these situational inter-plays of political, social, and gaming practices provide a unique means to gain insight into the socio-cultural contexts and imperatives tha...

the arc costs are assumed to be online parameters of the network and decisions should be made while the costs of arcs are not known. the policies determine the permitted nodes and arcs to traverse and they are generally defined according to the departure nodes of the current policy nodes. in on-line created tours arc costs are not available for decision makers. the on-line traversed nodes are f...

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 Digital platforms that allow individuals to interact and offer a public space where people can share the content they produce seek their rights play crucial role in organizing activist protests, promoting new representations, presenting adversary political voices. New activism, called 'digital activism,' is activities by or organizations digital environment create social change d...

The purpose of the research is to study practice its manifestation in modern political process Russia, particular Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Shies, based on analysis scientific ideas about activism social networks. main methods work are comparative science approach, case-study content analysis. recent events shows that online technologies forms civic participation gaining great importance discou...

Within one tradition of Western thought, politics and the arts have been categorized as distinct and separate entities. So when aesthetics is under discussion, political concern is often dismissed as dogmatic, ephemeral, or partial, and when politics is of chief interest, aesthetics is swept aside as immaterial, insubstantial, or obscure. The way literature has been defined and categorized in t...

Cyber Activism and SMS Propaganda: The potential and limitations in utilising Internet and cell phone technologies to strengthen human rights in China With this thesis, I have aimed to analyse the impact of Internet and cell phone technologies on the development of Chinese society, with emphasis on how it affects the promotion and respect for human rights and democracy in the country. The focus...

We study online social group dynamics based on how group members diverge in their online discussions. Previous studies mostly focused on the link structure to characterize social group dynamics, whereas the group behavior of content generation in discussions is not well understood. Particularly, we use Jensen-Shannon (JS) divergence to measure the divergence of topics in user-generated contents...

Electoral mobilization and persuasion are often characterized as two-stage processes, where parties activate their core supporters, who then mobilize persuade larger shares of the electorate. While there is a lot research on second stage this process, wider electorate by party activists, little causally identified evidence whether elites can encourage campaign activism among members sympathizer...

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