Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Definition Extraction with TaxoMatic A Case Study on Media Bias
Timo Spinde, Luyang Lin, Smi Hinterreiter
et al.
This paper introduces TaxoMatic, a framework that leverages large language models to automate definition extraction from academic literature. Focusing on the media bias domain, the framework encompasses data collection, LLM-based relevance classification, and extraction of conceptual definitions. Evaluated on a dataset of 2,398 manually rated articles, the study demonstrates the frameworks effectiveness, with Claude-3-sonnet achieving the best results in both relevance classification and definition extraction. Future directions include expanding datasets and applying TaxoMatic to additional domains.
STRATEGI PEMASARAN EVENT MAKEPUNG, JEMBRANA
Ni Ketut Ratna Dewi, I Made Sendra, Yohanes Kristianto
This study aims to determine the internal and external factors that influence the Makepung Regent Cup Event as a cultural tourism attraction to obtain the right marketing strategy. This research uses the concept of the 4P marketing mix (Product, Price, Place, Promotion). The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with a SWOT approach and described using a SWOT matrix. The data collection techniques used in this research are literature study, interviews, observation and documentation. The informant determination technique used is purposive sampling.The results of this study are as follows; 4P marketing mix, the products offered are cultural tourism, there are no special rates for tourists, the location of the circuit is classified as strategic, promotional efforts are carried out by advertising, direct promotion and sales promotion. The results of the SWOT analysis created a marketing strategy, namely: (1) SO strategy: Optimizing promotion through print media and utilizing social media by creating interesting content, (2) ST strategy: Maintaining the concept and uniqueness that is owned and the second strategy is maintaining local wisdom and community empowerment, (3) WO Strategy: Holding a special exhibition for the Makepung Event by modifying the beating tools used and by optimizing the quality of human resources in managing tourism opportunities, (4) WT strategy: Optimizing collaboration with stakeholders, and the second strategy is to improve supporting facilities in the circuit area.
Dynamic Interface Printing
Callum Vidler, Michael Halwes, Kirill Kolesnik
et al.
Additive manufacturing is an expanding multidisciplinary field encompassing applications including medical devices, aerospace components, microfabrication strategies, and artificial organs. Among additive manufacturing approaches, light-based printing technologies, including two-photon polymerization, projection micro stereolithography, and volumetric printing, have garnered significant attention due to their speed, resolution and/or potential applications for biofabrication. In this study, we introduce dynamic interface printing (DIP), a new 3D printing approach that leverages an acoustically modulated, constrained air-liquid boundary to rapidly generate cm-scale three-dimensional structures within tens of seconds. Distinct from volumetric approaches, this process eliminates the need for intricate feedback systems, specialized chemistry, or complex optics while maintaining rapid printing speeds. We demonstrate the versatility of this technique across a broad array of materials and intricate geometries, including those that would be impossible to print via conventional layer-by-layer methods. In doing so, we demonstrate the rapid fabrication of complex structures in-situ, overprinting, structural parallelisation, and biofabrication utility. Moreover, we showcase that the formation of surface waves at this boundary enables enhanced mass transport, material flexibility, and permits three-dimensional particle patterning. We therefore anticipate that this approach will be invaluable for applications where high resolution, scalable throughput, and biocompatible printing is required.
Robot Tape Manipulation for 3D Printing
Nahid Tushar, Rencheng Wu, Yu She
et al.
3D printing has enabled various applications using different forms of materials, such as filaments, sheets, and inks. Typically, during 3D printing, feedstocks are transformed into discrete building blocks and placed or deposited in a designated location similar to the manipulation and assembly of discrete objects. However, 3D printing of continuous and flexible tape (with the geometry between filaments and sheets) without breaking or transformation remains underexplored and challenging. Here, we report the design and implementation of a customized end-effector, i.e., tape print module (TPM), to realize robot tape manipulation for 3D printing by leveraging the tension formed on the tape between two endpoints. We showcase the feasibility of manufacturing representative 2D and 3D structures while utilizing conductive copper tape for various electronic applications, such as circuits and sensors. We believe this manipulation strategy could unlock the potential of other tape materials for manufacturing, including packaging tape and carbon fiber prepreg tape, and inspire new mechanisms for robot manipulation, 3D printing, and packaging.
Tracking Fringe and Coordinated Activity on Twitter Leading Up To the US Capitol Attack
Vishnuprasad Padinjaredath Suresh, Gianluca Nogara, Felipe Cardoso
et al.
The aftermath of the 2020 US Presidential Election witnessed an unprecedented attack on the democratic values of the country through the violent insurrection at Capitol Hill on January 6th, 2021. The attack was fueled by the proliferation of conspiracy theories and misleading claims about the integrity of the election pushed by political elites and fringe communities on social media. In this study, we explore the evolution of fringe content and conspiracy theories on Twitter in the seven months leading up to the Capitol attack. We examine the suspicious coordinated activity carried out by users sharing fringe content, finding evidence of common adversarial manipulation techniques ranging from targeted amplification to manufactured consensus. Further, we map out the temporal evolution of, and the relationship between, fringe and conspiracy theories, which eventually coalesced into the rhetoric of a stolen election, with the hashtag #stopthesteal, alongside QAnon-related narratives. Our findings further highlight how social media platforms offer fertile ground for the widespread proliferation of conspiracies during major societal events, which can potentially lead to offline coordinated actions and organized violence.
3D Printing and Design in Isolation: A Case from a Simulated Lunar Mission
Wiktor Stawski, Kinga Skorupska, Wiesław Kopeć
Despite the decades-long history of 3D printing, it is not used to its full potential. Yet 3D printing holds promise for isolated communities, aiming for self-sufficiency. In this experiential study conducted in an analog space habitat we evaluated challenges and opportunities of using 3D printing. Our study revealed barriers such as: 1) setting up and maintaining the 3D printing equipment while minding different kinds of pollution, that is air, temperature and sound, 2) design skill and familiarity with specialized software as well as materials and 3) the awareness of what can be achieved to meet community needs. We observed that in-community experience and know-how are reliable sources of 3D print ideas, that improve quality of life of community members if they are encouraged and supported by participatory design. Co-design of 3D prints in small, specialized communities is a promising area of study, that can bring new applications of 3D print technology.
Identifying Influential Brokers on Social Media from Social Network Structure
Sho Tsugawa, Kohei Watabe
Identifying influencers in a given social network has become an important research problem for various applications, including accelerating the spread of information in viral marketing and preventing the spread of fake news and rumors. The literature contains a rich body of studies on identifying influential source spreaders who can spread their own messages to many other nodes. In contrast, the identification of influential brokers who can spread other nodes' messages to many nodes has not been fully explored. Theoretical and empirical studies suggest that involvement of both influential source spreaders and brokers is a key to facilitating large-scale information diffusion cascades. Therefore, this paper explores ways to identify influential brokers from a given social network. By using three social media datasets, we investigate the characteristics of influential brokers by comparing them with influential source spreaders and central nodes obtained from centrality measures. Our results show that (i) most of the influential source spreaders are not influential brokers (and vice versa) and (ii) the overlap between central nodes and influential brokers is small (less than 15%) in Twitter datasets. We also tackle the problem of identifying influential brokers from centrality measures and node embeddings, and we examine the effectiveness of social network features in the broker identification task. Our results show that (iii) although a single centrality measure cannot characterize influential brokers well, prediction models using node embedding features achieve F$_1$ scores of 0.35--0.68, suggesting the effectiveness of social network features for identifying influential brokers.
Negativity Spreads Faster: A Large-Scale Multilingual Twitter Analysis on the Role of Sentiment in Political Communication
Dimosthenis Antypas, Alun Preece, Jose Camacho-Collados
Social media has become extremely influential when it comes to policy making in modern societies, especially in the western world, where platforms such as Twitter allow users to follow politicians, thus making citizens more involved in political discussion. In the same vein, politicians use Twitter to express their opinions, debate among others on current topics and promote their political agendas aiming to influence voter behaviour. In this paper, we attempt to analyse tweets of politicians from three European countries and explore the virality of their tweets. Previous studies have shown that tweets conveying negative sentiment are likely to be retweeted more frequently. By utilising state-of-the-art pre-trained language models, we performed sentiment analysis on hundreds of thousands of tweets collected from members of parliament in Greece, Spain and the United Kingdom, including devolved administrations. We achieved this by systematically exploring and analysing the differences between influential and less popular tweets. Our analysis indicates that politicians' negatively charged tweets spread more widely, especially in more recent times, and highlights interesting differences between political parties as well as between politicians and the general population.
Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.
Ashleigh Charles, Laurie Hare-Duke, Hannah Nudds
et al.
Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits arising from their use are contested, with recent empirical evidence from educational sectors suggesting they may raise anxiety and reinforce the centrality of trauma experience to identity, whilst benefits relate to increased individual agency in making informed decisions about engaging with content. Research is hampered by the absence of a shared inter-sectoral typology of warnings. The aims of this systematic review are to develop a typology of content warnings and to identify the contexts in which content warnings are used. The review was pre-registered (ID: CRD42020197687, URL: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42020197687) and used five sources: electronic databases covering multiple sectors (n = 19); table of contents from multi-sectoral journals (n = 5), traditional and social media websites (n = 53 spanning 36 countries); forward and backward citation tracking; and expert consultation (n = 15). In total, 6,254 documents were reviewed for eligibility and 136 documents from 32 countries were included. These were synthesised to develop the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) content warning typology, which comprises 14 domains: Violence, Sex, Stigma, Disturbing content, Language, Risky behaviours, Mental health, Death, Parental guidance, Crime, Abuse, Socio-political, Flashing lights and Objects. Ten sectors were identified: Education, Audio-visual industries, Games and Apps, Media studies, Social sciences, Comic books, Social media, Music, Mental health, and Science and Technology. Presentation formats (n = 15) comprised: education materials, film, games, websites, television, books, social media, verbally, print media, apps, radio, music, research, DVD/video and policy document. The NEON content warning typology provides a framework for consistent warning use and specification of key contextual information (sector, presentation format, target audience) in future content warning research, allowing personalisation of content warnings and investigation of global sociopolitical trends over time.
Print Error Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks
Suyash Shandilya
This paper discusses the need of an automated system for detecting print errors and the efficacy of Convolutional Neural Networks in such an application. We recognise the need of a dataset containing print error samples and propose a way to generate one artificially. We discuss the algorithms to generate such data along with the limitaions and advantages of such an apporach. Our final trained network gives a remarkable accuracy of 99.83\% in testing. We further evaluate how such efficiency was achieved and what modifications can be tested to further the results.
How Food Marketing on Instagram Shapes Adolescents’ Food Preferences: Online Randomized Trial
Marie Bragg, Samina Lutfeali, Tenay Greene
et al.
BackgroundWorldwide obesity rates have prompted 16 countries to enact policies to reduce children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing, but few policies address online advertising practices or protect adolescents from being targeted. Given adolescents spend so much time online, it is critical to understand how persuasive Instagram food advertisements (ads) are compared with traditional food ads. To strengthen online food marketing policies, more evidence is needed on whether social media ads are more persuasive than other types of ads in shaping adolescents’ preferences.
ObjectiveThis study examined whether adolescents could identify food companies’ Instagram posts as ads, and the extent to which Instagram versus traditional food ads shape adolescents’ preferences.
MethodsIn Part 1, participants aged 13-17 years (N=832) viewed 8 pairs of ads and were asked to identify which ads originated from Instagram. One ad in each pair was selected from traditional sources (eg, print; online banner ad), and the other ad was selected from Instagram, but we removed the Instagram frame—which includes the logo, comments, and “likes.” In Part 2, participants were randomized to rate food ads that ostensibly originated from (1) Instagram (ie, we photoshopped the Instagram frame onto ads); or (2) traditional sources. Unbeknownst to participants, half of the ads in their condition originated from Instagram and half originated from traditional sources.
ResultsIn Part 1, adolescents performed worse than chance when asked to identify Instagram ads (P<.001). In Part 2, there were no differences on 4 of 5 outcomes in the “labeled ad condition.” In the “unlabeled ad condition,” however, they preferred Instagram ads to traditional ads on 3 of 5 outcomes (ie, trendiness, P=.001; artistic appeal, P=.001; likeability, P=.001).
ConclusionsAdolescents incorrectly identified traditional ads as Instagram posts, suggesting the artistic appearance of social media ads may not be perceived as marketing. Further, the mere presence of Instagram features caused adolescents to rate food ads more positively than ads without Instagram features.
Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, Public aspects of medicine
Media Business Development in the Context of Global Digitalization
Viktor P. Kirilenko, Evgenia Yu. Kolobova
In the context of global changes in the media market under the influence of Internet technologies, it becomes necessary to identify the main trends of its development, so the characteristic of the market trends, the integration process of entrepreneurial structures in the media industry, aimed at increasing their competitiveness at the present stage of development of the market economy. In the context of an ever-changing, competitive digital ecosystem and against the background of General cuts in advertising budgets in the print press, radio, and television, advertising investments in the digital environment are increasing starting in 2019. Revenues of legacy news media organizations (also called old or traditional media organizations) are constantly declining due to the high degree of audience participation in new media due to the use of user-generated content, media automation, and new digital media organizations. Using mathematical-statistical and logical research methods, the article identifies specific features of the media business sphere, which include audience fragmentation, culture of creative destruction, and hypercompetition in the media market. In addition, key issues and current changes in the media industry in the context of global digitalization are highlighted, reflecting the introduction of innovative technologies that affect the media industry, and the decline in traditional methods of delivery and media consumption. Global digitalization has affected the growth of media platforms, resulting in an increase in the supply of content itself, as well as significant changes in its consumption by the advertising market.
Political institutions and public administration (General)
Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: Automatic detection of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Social Media and the News
Shadi Shahsavari, Pavan Holur, Timothy R. Tangherlini
et al.
Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confidence and low trust. Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the Covid-19 pandemic are proliferating given the lack of any authoritative scientific consensus on the virus, its spread and containment, or on the long term social and economic ramifications of the pandemic. Among the stories currently circulating are ones suggesting that the 5G network activates the virus, that the pandemic is a hoax perpetrated by a global cabal, that the virus is a bio-weapon released deliberately by the Chinese, or that Bill Gates is using it as cover to launch a global surveillance regime. While some may be quick to dismiss these stories as having little impact on real-world behavior, recent events including the destruction of property, racially fueled attacks against Asian Americans, and demonstrations espousing resistance to public health orders countermand such conclusions. Inspired by narrative theory, we crawl social media sites and news reports and, through the application of automated machine-learning methods, discover the underlying narrative frameworks supporting the generation of these stories. We show how the various narrative frameworks fueling rumors and conspiracy theories rely on the alignment of otherwise disparate domains of knowledge, and consider how they attach to the broader reporting on the pandemic. These alignments and attachments, which can be monitored in near real-time, may be useful for identifying areas in the news that are particularly vulnerable to reinterpretation by conspiracy theorists. Understanding the dynamics of storytelling on social media and the narrative frameworks that provide the generative basis for these stories may also be helpful for devising methods to disrupt their spread.
Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies
Diogo Pacheco, Pik-Mai Hui, Christopher Torres-Lugo
et al.
Coordinated campaigns are used to influence and manipulate social media platforms and their users, a critical challenge to the free exchange of information online. Here we introduce a general, unsupervised network-based methodology to uncover groups of accounts that are likely coordinated. The proposed method constructs coordination networks based on arbitrary behavioral traces shared among accounts. We present five case studies of influence campaigns, four of which in the diverse contexts of U.S. elections, Hong Kong protests, the Syrian civil war, and cryptocurrency manipulation. In each of these cases, we detect networks of coordinated Twitter accounts by examining their identities, images, hashtag sequences, retweets, or temporal patterns. The proposed approach proves to be broadly applicable to uncover different kinds of coordination across information warfare scenarios.
Physical limitations on broadband invisibility based on fast-light media
Mohamed Ismail Abdelrahman, Zeki Hayran, Aobo Chen
et al.
This note is a comment on a recent article [Tsakmakidis, et al., Nat Commun 10 (2019)] that presents a thought-provoking proposal to overcome the bandwidth restrictions of invisibility cloaks based on using media that support superluminal (faster than light in free space) group and phase velocities. As illustrated in Fig. 1 of the original article, a wave packet propagating through such a fast-light cloak is alleged to be able to reach the side behind the cloaked object simultaneously with a corresponding wave packet propagating through the shorter, direct route in free space without the object, so that "no shadow or waveform distortion arises." As the authors claim, the "extra pathlength is balanced out by the correspondingly larger group velocity of the pulse in the cloak", which allows to "restore the incident field distribution all around the object in, both, amplitude and phase". This fast-light effect may be achieved in a broadband fashion using active (gain) materials. The authors claim that such a fast-light cloak can hide an object, even from time-of-flight detection techniques, and achieve invisibility "over any desired frequency band." We disagree with these claims and believe that a thorough clarification of the ideas put forward in the original article is important and necessary for the broad wave-physics community. Specifically, in this comment we clarify that invisibility cloaks based on fast-light media suffer from fundamental bandwidth restrictions that arise due to causality, the nature of superluminal wave propagation, and the stability issues of active systems. These limitations and issues were not addressed in [Tsakmakidis, et al., Nat Commun 10 (2019)]. Most importantly, we show that the material model considered in the original article is unphysical.
Conservation of the Sidi Bou Guertif Marabout, El Khorbat, Morocco
Teresa Gil-Piqueras, Pablo Rodríguez-Navarro
This contribution tries to describe the research and intervention process that the authors have carried out for the conservation of the Sidi Bou Guertif Mausoleum. The methodological process has been based on the prior knowledge of the construction systems, as well as the conservation and recovery-reconstruction techniques used by the region’s master builders, practices that are respectful with the building and that are validated by their use for centuries. In addition, the project contemplated the involvement of young locals interested in learning about these jobs that unfortunately disappear, but are absolutely necessary to preserve this heritage at-risk.
Conservation and restoration of prints, Architectural drawing and design
Вітання з ювілеєм видатного керівника, вченого, педагога української видавничо-поліграфічної галузі
Науково-педагогічний колектив ВПІ КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського
Описано життєві етапи, наукову та освітянську діяльність відомого вченого та педагога українського друкарства, багаторічного декана Київського вечірнього факультету Українського поліграфічного інституту ім. Івана Федорова, завідувача кафедрою технології поліграфічного виробництва Видавничо-поліграфічного факультету Національного технічного університету України «Київський політехнічний інститут» Розума Олега Федоровича
All Seats Taken? Hyperlocal Online Media in Strong Print Newspaper Surroundings
Halvorsen Lars Julius, Bjerke Paul
This article present data from a new mapping of Norwegian online hyperlocals, defined as local online news sites that are indigenous to the web. From an understanding of local news markets as organised social fields with great barriers to entry, we discuss the hyperlocals’ locations and business models against the system of existing print-based local newspapers and analyse four cases of successful start-ups. We have identified 67 Norwegian hyperlocals. While most new start-ups tend to avoid direct competition with legacy print media, hyperlocals operate in all kinds of municipalities. While most of them follow a low-cost strategy based upon a large degree of “self-exploitation” by the editors, a total of 19 hyperlocals create sufficient income to run professional news operations. These operations are typically being started while legacy media has been going through economic crises. Even then, there are substantial barriers to market entry. Highly dedicated and earth-bound entrepreneurs seem to be a prerequisite for success.
Communication. Mass media
Python Framework for HP Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Two Phase Flow in Porous Media
Andreas Dedner, Birane Kane, Robert Klöfkorn
et al.
In this paper we present a framework for solving two phase flow problems in porous media. The discretization is based on a Discontinuous Galerkin method and includes local grid adaptivity and local choice of polynomial degree. The method is implemented using the new Python frontend Dune-FemPy to the open source framework Dune. The code used for the simulations is made available as Jupyter notebook and can be used through a Docker container. We present a number of time stepping approaches ranging from a classical IMPES method to fully coupled implicit scheme. The implementation of the discretization is very flexible allowing for test different formulations of the two phase flow model and adaptation strategies.
3D Conductive Polymer Printed Metasurface Antenna for Fresnel Focusing
Okan Yurduseven, Shengrong Ye, Thomas Fromenteze
et al.
We demonstrate a 3D printed holographic metasurface antenna for beam-focusing applications at 10 GHz within the X-band frequency regime. The metasurface antenna is printed using a dual-material 3D printer leveraging a biodegradable conductive polymer material (Electrifi) to print the conductive parts and polylactic acid (PLA) to print the dielectric substrate. The entire metasurface antenna is 3D printed at once; no additional techniques, such as metal-plating and laser etching, are required. It is demonstrated that using the 3D printed conductive polymer metasurface antenna, high-fidelity beam focusing can be achieved within the Fresnel region of the antenna. It is also shown that the material conductivity for 3D printing has a substantial effect on the radiation characteristics of the metasurface antenna.