This paper looked at presidential television advertising in the 2012 U.S. election. The author has undertaken a deep analysis of the way audio and visual elements are used to construct meanings in televised political ads. Meaning is suggested through the visual and aural means of expression available to ad creators. The organizing principle of this study is information manipulation for the purp...

We present Visual Sedimentation (VS), a new design metaphor for visualizing streaming data inspired by the geological process of sedimentation. Our work started by early experiments visualizing political Twitter streams during the French 2012 presidential elections, and social interactions during a TV show. In both cases, the positive feedback we received expressed an unexpectedly high level of...

A recent disclosure of a presidential scandal and the following development of subsequent events have been a major news topic in South Korea. We conducted a data-driven study to examine public reactions to the scandal and their effect on the Korean media landscape. Our analysis is based on 59,224 news articles published by five popular newsrooms that received a total of 47,906,770 Likes on Face...

In this paper, we propose the use of word sense disambiguation and latent semantic features to automatically identify a person’s perspective from his/her written text. We run an Amazon Mechanical Turk experiment where we ask Turkers to answer a set of constrained and open-ended political questions drawn from the American National Election Studies (ANES). We then extract the proposed features fr...

Aiming to examine Netflix’s strategies in its global expansion and based on the debates transnationalization of tv flows, we observe platform’s presence two peripheral markets: Brazil South Korea. In both, find similar tactics, such as licensing commissioning local content partnerships with national production companies. Although identified a recent shift company’s from Latin America towards As...

although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. the most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the us, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as public diplomacy and to follow local and international ...