Browsing by Subject "social media"
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Are we out to lunch? Are the dietary strategies we share on social media effective in mitigating climate change?
(2019-12-13)To mitigate climate change, it is necessary to shift global dietary patterns towards lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. How the public pursues this goal is important, and social media data offer an opportunity to assess ... -
Data Mining in Social Media for Stock Market Prediction
(2012-09-05)In this thesis, machine learning algorithms are used in NLP to get the public sentiment on individual stocks from social media in order to study its relationship with the stock price change. The NLP approach of sentiment ... -
Political Spaces: Urban-Rural and Digital Divides in the Political Practices and Views of Atlantic Canadians
(2019-08-27)Divides in political participation and political views are often explained “spatially,” where space can be either physical, as in urban-rural divides, or digital, as in “cyberspace.” These divides are more commonly invoked ... -
Spatial Agencies: Superimposing Media and Architecture in Public Space
(2015)This thesis reconsiders several major urban elements in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It focuses on the original town square (the Grand Parade) and the adjacent main street (Barrington Street) that runs along the Peninsula. ... -
Tradition and Authoritarianism as a Solution to Social Decay- An Analysis of Canadian Right- Wing Extremism Online
(2020-04-29)Recently, Canadian researchers have turned their attention to online right-wing extremism. For this research I conducted a content analysis of 300 Facebook and Twitter posts from the accounts of three Canadian right-wing ... -
Trends in Scholarly Use of Online Social Media
(Position paper presented at the Workshop on Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaboration, the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, 2011, Kauai, HI, USA., 2011-01-04) -
What makes people share news on social media? Exploring the moderating role of perceived fakeness
(2022-12-12)Social media platforms help individuals form social relationships. They enable the quick spread of information. One of the most common misuses of these platforms is the creation and sharing of fake or misleading news or ...