Browsing by Subject "Social media"
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AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF USER INTEREST FROM SOCIAL MEDIA
(2015-04-01)Automatic identification of user interest from social media has gained much attention in the recent years. In Twitter, users could post tweets about a wide range of topics. These tweets could be analyzed to identify the ... -
EXPLORING FACTORS AFFECTING BREASTFEEDING BEHAVIORS: A MIXED METHOD APPROACH
(2020-05-21)Breastfeeding is widely perceived as the best option for healthy mothers and infants due to its benefits. According to WHO, infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months after birth and continue until ... -
The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries
(Canadian Society for Information Science, 2011-01-01)This paper uses transaction log data to examine how library users interact with two social discovery systems used in two Canadian public library systems. Results indicate that user-generated content is not used extensively ... -
Social Discovery Tools: Cataloguing Meets User Convenience.
(Canadian Association for Information Science, 2011)The paper discusses (a) the ethical dimensions of creating catalogue records to reflect user convenience, (b) the relationship between culture and user convenience, and (c) how social discovery tools can facilitate the ... -
Social media data and computer vision in social impact assessment: Understanding human dimensions and cultural ecosystem services in hydroelectric landscapes
(2024-08-21)Social media data has proven to be a valuable resource for assessing social impacts, especially when combined with rapid advancements in artificial intelligence technologies. This combination enables comprehensive analyses ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of Health and Well-Being
(2018-04-30)This dissertation offers three vignettes on the determinants of health and well-being over the life course. The first essay uses multiple Canadian census files to document the longterm effects of potential in utero exposure ...