Digital propaganda is not simply propaganda in digital garb: toward an expanded theory of propaganda

C Lin - Communication Theory, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Drawing on a critical review of the existing literature on computational propaganda and
disinformation, and employing a three-stage process—addressing the “New Wine in Old …

Open Source Intelligence Opportunities and Challenges–A Review

S Szymoniak, K Foks - Advances in Science and Technology …, 2024 - yadda.icm.edu.pl
Data files, photos, and videos on the internet are vast sources of information about the
person who posted them. These files contain content about appearance, behaviour, views …

VEL@ LT-EDI: Detecting homophobia and transphobia in code-mixed Spanish social media comments

PK Kumaresan, KK Ponnusamy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Our research aims to address the task of detecting homophobia and transphobia in social
media code-mixed comments written in Spanish. Code-mixed text in social media often …

Natural language processing in politics

T Marwala - Artificial intelligence, game theory and mechanism …, 2023 - Springer
Natural language processing (NLP) has changed how humans interact with technology and
evaluate data. Its ability to comprehend, interpret, and generate human language has …

AI-Driven Mediation Strategies for Audience Depolarisation in Online Debates

J Govers, E Velloso, V Kostakos… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Online polarisation can tear the fabric of civility through reinforcing social media's
perceptions of division and discord. Social media platforms often rely on content-moderation …

The Shapes of the Fourth Estate During the Pandemic: Profiling COVID-19 News Consumption in Eight Countries

C Yang, L Xie, S Wu - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
News media is often referred to as the Fourth Estate, a recognition of its political power. New
understandings of how media shape political beliefs and influence collective behaviors are …

Prompt-GAN–Customisable hate speech and extremist datasets via radicalised neural language models

J Govers, P Feldman, A Dant, P Patros - Proceedings of the 2023 9th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Online hate speech and violent extremism knows no borders, no political boundaries, no
remorse. Researchers face an uphill battle to collect hate speech data in volumes and …

[PDF][PDF] VEL@ LT-EDI-2023: Detecting Homophobia and Transphobia in Code-Mixed Spanish Social Media Comments

PK Kumaresan, KK Ponnusamy… - LTEDI 2023, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Our research aims to address the task of detecting homophobia and transphobia in social
media code-mixed comments written in Spanish. Code-mixed text in social media often …

Understanding News Creation Intents: Frame, Dataset, and Method

Z Wang, D Wang, Q Sheng, J Cao, S Su, Y Sun… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As the disruptive changes in the media economy and the proliferation of alternative news
media outlets, news intent has progressively deviated from ethical standards that serve the …

Time Series Analysis of Key Societal Events as Reflected in Complex Social Media Data Streams

A Skumanich, HK Kim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.07090, 2024 - arxiv.org
Social media platforms hold valuable insights, yet extracting essential information can be
challenging. Traditional top-down approaches often struggle to capture critical signals in …