Populist discourse—which tends to benefit anti-systemic parties—has been on the rise in world’s democratic states. Powerful non-democratic states have both means and incentive spread such discourse We clarify incentives illiberal produce communication, delineate how this type of political communication fuses traditional state-to-state propaganda with election interventions. draw case Kremlin-sp...

During the 2016 US elections Twitter experienced unprecedented levels of propaganda and fake news through the collaboration of bots and hired persons, the ramifications of which are still being debated. This work proposes an approach to identify the presence of organized behavior in tweets. The Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, and Logistic Regression algorithms are each used to train a mo...

AMICI is an association of parents who have come together to provide counsel for people, mainly students, between the ages of 17 and 24. We expect help with any problem with which parents may be faced?not only those we have experienced in our ?vvn families, but those we have ourselves been fortunate enough to miss. The association was founded in October, 1964, but some of the members have been ...

We analyze in detail a leader election protocol that we call the Swedish leader election protocol. The goal is to select one among n > 0 players, by proceeding through a number of rounds. If there is only one player remaining, the protocol stops and the player is declared the leader. Otherwise, all remaining players flip a biased coin; with probability q the player survives to the next round, w...

DECADES ago, the question for those studying international communication was how communications turns "others" into "ourselves" (propaganda). Now the question is who we are, ourselves, and where the "other" has gone. As a subject, international communication has moved from "low" to "high" policy; corporations and communities struggle to adapt to conditions created by a qualitatively new informa...

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...

Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. It is also a serious problem for users because they are not aware of it and they tend to confuse trusting the search engine with trusting the results of a search [16]. The parallels between web spamming on the internet a...

The purpose of present study is to explore impact of marketing mix (price, firm image, distribution intensity, promotion and propaganda) on the brand equity of Asia Insurance Firm in view of its customers and prioritizing of these elements based on significance of their impacts. The statistical population includes customers of Asia Insurance Firm in Shiraz, IRAN. Data is collected using questio...

This paper analyzes the role of propaganda use in cyberterrorism. The main premise is that cyberterrorists display various semiotic gestures (e.g., the use of images and Internet videos) to communicate their intents to the public at large. In doing so, they communicate themes-these themes range from hate to anger. Cyberterrorism, then, is a form of theater or spectacle in which terrorists explo...