Essays about: "Twitter and news media"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 47 essays containing the words Twitter and news media.
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1. Get in the Game : A study on social media marketing activities to achieve market access and enhance mainstream adoption of blockchain gaming
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Gaming is booming, and over the past few years, blockchain games have found their way into this market. These games operate in a highly competitive environment, where marketing is vitally important for their success. READ MORE
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2. Hawkes Processes on Socialand Mass Media: : A Causal Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement inthe Summer of 2020
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistik, AI och data scienceAbstract : In this work we study interactions in social media and the reports in mass media during the Black LivesMatter (BLM) protests following the death of George Floyd. We implement open-source pipelines to process the data at scale and employ the self-exciting counting process known as Hawkes process to address our main question: is there a causal relation between interactions in social media and reports of street protests in mass media? Specifically, we use distributed label propagation to identify such interactions in Twitter, that supported the BLM movement, and compared the timing of these interaction to those of news reports of street protests mentioning George Floyd, via the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project. READ MORE
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3. An E-sport team's communication with their fans in social media
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikationAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore the social media-communication between the E-sport team Team Allliance and their fans, and doing so with the perspective of Jenkins basic theory on Convergence Culture, also called Participatory Culture, and within this theory-concept, researchers J. Sanderson and J.W. READ MORE
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4. Act like a human, think like a bot : A study on the capabilities required to implement a social bot on a social media platform
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Social media platforms have revolutionized how people interact with each other and how people gain information. However, social media platforms such as Twitter quickly became a platform for public manipulation and spreading or amplifying political or ideological misinformation. READ MORE
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5. Politicians as communicators of delegitimizing criticism towards epistemic authorities : A study of political hostility towards news media and science in Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikationAbstract : It is seemingly accepted that a democracy functions better with a reasonably informed citizenry. As we cannot acquire knowledge about a complex reality on our own, democratic societies operate through a set of institutions of which two are attributed the explicit task to assist citizensa legitimate pathway to knowledge. READ MORE
