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The purpose of this study is to examine the use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube by candidates running for the 2014 Greek Municipal Elections by addressing the following questions: (1) which factors affect social media adoption by municipal candidates?, and (2) whether social media usage along with the popularity of candidates’ social media pages influence candidates’ vote...

This paper presents an in-depth study of YouTube video service delivery. We have designed a tool that crawls YouTube videos in order to precisely evaluate the quality of experience (QoE) as perceived by the user. We enrich the main QoE metric, the number of video stalls, with many network measurements and use multiple DNS servers to understand the main factors that impact QoS and QoE. This tool...

AIM This article is a report on a descriptive study of nursing identity as constructed in the Web 2.0 site YouTube. BACKGROUND Public images of the nurse carry stereotypes that rely on the taken for granted gender category of the nurse as woman. Nursing images represent a form of public discourse that has the capacity to construct nursing identity. METHODS Critical discourse analysis was us...

Large-scale datasets have played a significant role in progress of neural network and deep learning areas. YouTube-8M is such a benchmark dataset for general multilabel video classification. It was created from over 7 million YouTube videos (450,000 hours of video) and includes video labels from a vocabulary of 4716 classes (3.4 labels/video on average). It also comes with pre-extracted audio &...

Online recommender systems are useful for media asset management where they select the best content from a set of media assets. We are developing a recommender system called 360-MAM-Select for educational video content. 360-MAM-Select utilises sentiment analysis, emotion modeling and gamification techniques applied to people’s comments on videos, for the recommendation of media assets. Here, we...

AIMS In 2011, online marketing became the largest marketing channel in the UK, overtaking television for the first time. This study aimed to describe the exposure of children and young adults to alcohol marketing on social media websites in the UK. METHODS We used commercially available data on the three most used social media websites among young people in the UK, from December 2010 to May 2...

We measure YouTube content delivery over IPv6 using ⇠100 SamKnows probes connected to dual-stacked networks representing 66 different origin ASes. Using a 34-months long (Aug 2014-Jun 2017) dataset, we show that success rates of streaming a stall-free version of a video over IPv6 have improved over time. We show that a Happy Eyeballs (HE) race during initial TCP connection establishment leads t...