The Internet Changed Chess Rules: Queen Is Equal to Pawn. How Social Media Influence Opinion Spreading

the present study is a survey os postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. it argues how the recorded history is regulated by the rules of power and how women have been excluded from this discourse.ther study analysez angela carters nights at the circus as an example of postmodern historical novel to illustrate how this novel has questioned the historical narrative and how it has inserted women into history by breaking the rules of patriarchy.

the present thesis is a study of postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. according to postmodern historiography,the established institution of history is one of the other manifestations of patriarchys power which has silenced women. the study analyzes angela carters nights at the circus as a postmodern historical novel which makes its female characters transgress the pat...

How the Internet changed science journalism

Mass media influence spreading in social networks with community structure

We study an extension of Axelrod’s model for social influence, in which cultural drift is represented as random perturbations, while mass media are introduced by means of an external field. In this scenario, we investigate how the modular structure of social networks affects the propagation of mass media messages across a society. The community structure of social networks is represented by cou...

Opinion dynamics on interacting networks: media competition and social influence

The inner dynamics of the multiple actors of the informations systems - i.e, T.V., newspapers, blogs, social network platforms, - play a fundamental role on the evolution of the public opinion. Coherently with the recent history of the information system (from few main stream media to the massive diffusion of socio-technical system), in this work we investigate how main stream media signed inte...

Traditional and Online Media : How the Internet Has Changed the Reporting of Medical News

This thesis attempted to investigate how the Internet had changed the reporting of medical news. Since the late 20th century, there have been growing concerns about emerging global health issues. Consequently, the media have an important role to play to better serve the needs of people seeking medical news and information. My presumption was that the Internet held the key for news organizations...