Social media platforms have become an important source of information in course of a breaking news event, such as natural calamity, political uproar, etc. News organisations and journalists are increasingly realising the value of information being propagated via social media. However, the sheer volume of the data produced on social media is overwhelming and manual inspection of this streaming d...

At the start of this new year, even as we’re buffeted by unwelcome news a more infective strain covid, it feels at times if nearing end long tunnel, with light just around corner. Vaccines are being approved, and health service is ramping up systems to ensure that vulnerable groups protected. The ongoing controversy who prioritised for covid vaccinations was probably be expected, given all opi...

This article examines the branding of new Tampere University in Finland and reactions it evoked Finnish social media news between 2018–2020. The merger Technology into a foundation-based university provoked considerable public debate sparked uproar over communication style practices university’s management. main reason for outcry was that governance model ignored traditional democratic way runn...

The Rohingya Movement and Crisis caused a huge uproar in the political and economic state of Bangladesh. Refugee movement is a recurring event and a large amount of data in the form of opinions remains on social media such as Facebook, with very little analysis done on them.To analyse the comments based on all Rohingya related posts, we had to create and modify a classifier based on the Support...

Is he right? We in the United States seem to be of two minds. Most of us have an intuition that, although our genes provide advantages and constraints, we retain great control over our lives. But we are developing a second, competing intuition that, like it or not, our genes determine our abilities, our preferences, and our emotions. Perhaps this second intuition is what induced Rutgers Univers...

In following the uproar and wide-spread talk about systems-on-a-chip (SOC) and its associated challenges, it is interesting to note that different people have varying notions and interpretations of SOC. It may be prudent to establish a base level definition of SOC. In the context of testing large multi-functional chips, SOC can be defined to be any chip that has more than 1 million gates and/or...

Frequent public uproar over forms of data science that rely on information about people demonstrates the challenges defining and demonstrating trustworthy digital research practices. This paper reviews problems trustworthiness in what we term pervasive research: scholarship relies rich generated through interaction. We highlight entwined participant unawareness such relationship to corporate da...