OBJECTIVES The Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in the Americas in 2015-2016 posed a novel global threat due to the association with congenital malformations and its rapid spread. Timely information about the spread of the disease was paramount to public health bodies issuing travel advisories. This paper looks at the online interaction with a national travel health website during the outbreak and co...

The present research aimed at investigating the deformation of political news headlines translation between English and Persian News Agencies based on Berman`s deformative system. For this purpose, 100 news headlines in English were selected from BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, France, France 24, Financial Times, Business Times, New York Times, Politico, Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, Middle East Ey...

This paper presents the results of a research project on new modes production television crime news. The enquiry involved monitoring newscasts five major channels in Buenos Aires City and interviews with news workers. We analyze content, ways narrating enunciating television, role played by police structure news, emergence sources information routines Our findings suggest that most give promine...

We use the Meme-tracking system to understand how phrases spread across news sources [3]. We have observed how a meme gains momentum and loses popularity, and observed how the category of the meme affects its life. We begin by looking at various statistics from the frequency data to understand differences between the lifetime of memes across subject matter and media source, and look for methods...

Nowadays, social medias such as Twitter, Memetracker and Blogs have become powerful tools to propagate information. They facilitate quick dissemination sequence of information such as news article, blog posts, user’s interests and thoughts through largescale. Providing strong means to analyzing social networks structure and how information diffuse through them is essential. Many recent studies ...

We investigated online diffusion of information, spread of fear, and perceived risk of infection to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) as cases of MERS spread rapidly and dozens of fatalities occurred in South Korea in May-June of 2015. This study retrieved 8,671,695 MERS-related online documents from May 20 to June 18, 2015, from 171 Korean online channels and analyzed such documents by u...

Social media has quickly established itself as an important means that people, NGOs and governments use to spread information during natural or man-made disasters, mass emergencies and crisis situations. Given this important role, real-time analysis of social media contents to locate, organize and use valuable information for disaster management is crucial. In this paper, we propose self-learni...

Massive amounts of misinformation have been observed to spread in uncontrolled fashion across social media. Examples include rumors, hoaxes, fake news, and conspiracy theories. At the same time, several journalistic organizations devote significant efforts to high-quality fact checking of online claims. The resulting information cascades contain instances of both accurate and inaccurate informa...

Current Internet users see the combination of World-wide Web (WWW) and electronic mail as a synonym for the Internet. While WWW is excellent for easy and fast dissemination of information and email facilitates efficient communication, a means for wide-spread, threaded discussion and interchange of information among large groups of users is still necessary. WWW has experienced a tremendous innov...

breaking bad news is quite often not done in an effective manner in clinical settings due to the medical staff lacking the skills necessary for speaking to patients and their families. bad news is faced with similar reactions on the part of the news receiver in all cultures and nations. the purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of iranian nurses on breaking bad news to patients ...