Research suggests that the representation of scientific and medical issues in the traditional media such as newspapers, TV and radio is an important determinant of public opinion and related public policy outcomes, particularly with regard to attitudes toward stem cell research. With the emergence of social media, the discursive space around public policy issues has expanded to include a new de...

Social TV is a recent trend that integrates social media access and TV viewing. In this paper, we investigate approaches for building effective language models for a voice-enabled social TV application, where viewers can speak their social media updates while watching TV. We propose to take advantage of social media data, more specifically TV-related Twitter messages (tweets). The challenge is ...

The rise of New Media associated with the Internet has radically changed many aspects of daily life, and enabled us to do things that would have seemed unimaginable even a few decades ago. The speed and volume of communications has increased by a factor of a million or more since the Internet first emerged in the 1990s, and there has been a corresponding proliferation of information. Yet the ec...

“Social TV” is a term that broadly describes the online social interactions that occur between viewers while watching television. Television shows are now instigating online social interactions between viewers by requesting viewers, as part of the first broadcasts, to engage in simultaneous discussions about the shows. Examples include explicitly asking users to follow and comment on topics on ...

This paper provides an overview of the impact and opportunities provided by Social Media and other social interaction tools when watching TV/video content. The analysis has been conducted from the viewpoints of both individual and shared media experiences between remote users. On the one hand, many possibilities provided by Social Media when each user is concurrently consuming multiple related ...

BACKGROUND To quarantine the spreading possibility of HIV virus to general population boosting public awareness is must. But the proper awareness level is substantially low in Bangladesh. This paper aims to identify the factors associated with the awareness regarding HIV/AIDS through a bivariate and multivariate analysis using the data extracted from Bangladesh Demography and Health Survey (BDH...