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Anatomy of a protest: Activism, people, social media and urban space
Title
Anatomy of a protest: Activism, people, social media and urban space
Author
Karduni, Alireza
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Information technology, Social sciences--Research, Architecture
Description
The black lives matter movement has risen in response to social injustices in the African-American community in the United States, specifically concerned with police shootings and brutality. Similar to many modern movements in the age of informati...
IDENTIFYING SERENDIPITOUS DRUG USAGES FROM PATIENT-REPORTED MEDICATION OUTCOMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Title
IDENTIFYING SERENDIPITOUS DRUG USAGES FROM PATIENT-REPORTED MEDICATION OUTCOMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Author
Ru, Boshu
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Information technology, Medical sciences
Description
Drug repositioning has prominent advantages of lower safety risk and development cost than developing new drugs. It has attracted broad interests from the biomedical community. In the past decades, computational approaches have examined biological...
UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS THROUGH SIMULATIONS OF ANGER CONTAGION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Title
UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS THROUGH SIMULATIONS OF ANGER CONTAGION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Author
Bacaksizlar, Nazmiye
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Sociology, Information technology, System theory
Description
This dissertation investigates emotional contagion in social movements within social media platforms, such as Twitter. The main research question is: How does a protest behavior spread in social networks? The following sub-questions are: (a) What ...