Browsing by Subject "Social Media"
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Bordering on crisis: A qualitative analysis of focus group, social media, and news media perspectives on the Republic of Ireland-Northern Ireland border during the ?first wave? of the COVID-19 pandemic
(2021)Rationale International border controls were among the earliest and most effective of measures to constrain transmission of COVID-19. However, such measures are complex when established borders are open yet politically ... -
Enhanced Personalized Search using Social Data
(ACL, 2016)Search personalization that considers the social dimension of the web has attracted a significant volume of research in recent years. A user profile is usually needed to represent a user’s interests in order to tailor ... -
Gender Bias on Tinder: Transforming an Exploratory Qualitative Survey into Statistical Data for Contextualized Interpretation
(Springer Nature, 2017)Tinder is an online dating application that enables a human-human interaction. However, the ease of connection brings to light some concerns about possible harmful gender dynamics, which can enhance bias within technological ... -
The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People's Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis
(2022)History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people's understanding of their nation's modern ... -
Improving Search via Personalized Query Expansion using Social Media
(Springer Verlag, 2012-06)Social tagging systems have gained increasing popularity as a method of annotating and categorizing a wide range of different web resources. Web search that utilizes social tagging data suffers from an extreme example of ... -
Irish Primary Teachers’ use of Social Media in Visual Arts Education
(TARA, 2021-04)This piece of research was undertaken as a final year Master in Education Studies (Visual Arts) thesis. In-depth interviews took place with eight Irish primary teachers. The study explored teachers’ use social media as a ... -
PROVENANCE: An Intermediary-Free Solution for Digital Content Verification
(2021)The threat posed by misinformation and disinformation is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. Provenance is designed to help combat this threat by warning users when the content they are looking at may be ... -
Web Search Personalisation Using Social Data
(2012)Web search that utilizes social tagging data suffers from an extreme example of the vocabulary mismatch problem encountered in traditional Information Retrieval (IR). This is due to the personalized, unrestricted vocabulary ...