Massive Media Research Articles

Influence of NAFDAC Mobile Drugs Authentication Service on the Use of Fake Drugs Among Consumers in Southeast Nigeria

OBJECTIVE: This paper investigates the influence of Mobile Authentication Service (MAS) in eliminating the consumption of fake/counterfeit drugs in South-east Nigeria. 
 
 METHODS: 1000 respondents were randomly selected in the five states of the South-east as study sample, while a structured questionnaire was used for collecting data. SPSS version 20.0 was used to analyse the data. 
 
 RESULTS: Analysis results reveal that there is a low level of MAS scheme awareness while few persons operate the MAS scheme. It further reveals that MAS scheme made no impact on the distribution and consumption of fake/counterfeit drugs. It also reveals people’s inability to procure appropriate phone technology, poor network services, and low level of MAS scheme media awareness campaign was responsible for MAS scheme ineffectiveness. 
 
 CONCLUSION: NAFDAC MAS scheme has not reduced or eliminated the production, distribution and consumption of fake/counterfeit drugs in the South-east Nigeria. This is because of inappropriate media awareness campaign, people’s inability to procure the appropriate phone technology and access good network services required to operate the MAS scheme. This paper recommends appropriate massive media awareness campaign on the MAS Scheme, modernisation of MAS scheme software to accommodate lower level of phone technology, and improved network access as panacea for MAS scheme effectiveness.

Analyzing social media data: A mixed-methods framework combining computational and qualitative text analysis.

To qualitative researchers, social media offers a novel opportunity to harvest a massive and diverse range of content without the need for intrusive or intensive data collection procedures. However, performing a qualitative analysis across a massive social media data set is cumbersome and impractical. Instead, researchers often extract a subset of content to analyze, but a framework to facilitate this process is currently lacking. We present a four-phased framework for improving this extraction process, which blends the capacities of data science techniques to compress large data sets into smaller spaces, with the capabilities of qualitative analysis to address research questions. We demonstrate this framework by investigating the topics of Australian Twitter commentary on climate change, using quantitative (non-negative matrix inter-joint factorization; topic alignment) and qualitative (thematic analysis) techniques. Our approach is useful for researchers seeking to perform qualitative analyses of social media, or researchers wanting to supplement their quantitative work with a qualitative analysis of broader social context and meaning.

Synthetic spectra of energetic core-collapse supernovae and the early spectra of SN 2007bi and SN 1999as

SN 2007bi and SN 1999as are among the first superluminous supernovae discovered. SN 2007bi was suggested to be powered by the radioactive decay of a large amount (5 - 10 Msun) of 56Ni. SN 1999as has a similar spectrum to SN 2007bi. One suggested way to synthesize such a large amount of 56Ni is through energetic core-collapse supernovae from very massive progenitors. Although the synthetic light curves of extremely energetic core-collapse supernovae have been shown to be consistent with SN 2007bi, no synthetic spectra have been reported. Here, we present synthetic spectra of extremely energetic core-collapse supernovae during the photospheric phases. We find that the ejecta density structure above 13,000 - 16,000 km/s needs to be cut in order to explain the co-existing broad and narrow line absorptions in SN 2007bi and SN 1999as. The density cut is likely caused by the interaction between the supernova ejecta and a dense circumstellar medium. Our results indicate that about 3 Msun of hydrogen-free dense circumstellar media might exist near the progenitors of SN 2007bi and SN 1999as. These massive circumstellar media would significantly affect the light-curve and spectral properties of the supernovae. The precursors that are sometimes observed in superluminous supernovae might be related to the collision of the ejecta with such dense circumstellar media. We also confirm results of previous studies that synthetic spectra from pair-instability supernova models do not match the early spectra of SN 2007bi and SN 1999as.

Grietas textuales y discursos interrumpidos: el recurso del glitch en las ‘escrituras del software’

La generalización de los medios masivos y tecnológicos ha ocasionado una transformación notoria en la sociedad, en la cultura y, por consiguiente, en la epistemología. La esfera artística afronta estas variaciones no solo en su naturaleza sino también en sus técnicas de elaboración. Este ensayo propone analizar cómo el software está actuando en las escrituras, del mismo modo que afecta en las relaciones con los objetos en el espacio virtual. Para ello propongo el concepto ‘escrituras del software’ para examinar estas escrituras como una respuesta política. Concretamente investigaré sobre el glitch —un efecto inesperado en los videojuegos debido a un problema en el código— en ciertos casos de la literatura contemporánea en español.

Reflexões teórico-críticas sobre o ideal esportivo e suas implicações para a racionalidade e para a corporeidade (Theoretical-critical reflections on sport ideals and its implications to rationality and ...)

This article chooses the subject of valuating sport and its ideals as a great agent of homogenization of consciences and a materializer of a corporeity constructed with the support of new technologies to the massive media diffusion of sportive images. We present reflections oriented by the Critic Theory and other thinkers as Bourdieu, Elias, Ehrenberg who addressed the sport issue as catalyzer of a Physical and Social culture reinforced by Sports’ elements. Methodologically, theoretical findings are articulated to contemporaneous social phenomena to produce greater comprehension. The discussions indicate an association between sports ideals and the market, which is a producer of sportive merchandise and prepared “athletes” to alienated work. This way, physical and sports activities are constituted by values from the Capitalistic Industrial Society that transformed sports into a merchandise for the communicational spectacle in social networks and mass media, and also into an influence to be followed due to its continuous quest for performance and records. &nbsp

“Koh Ngomong” and A Desire to Do Whistleblowing: An Experimental Study

The issue of whistleblowing has attracted attention several decades ago until now. The interesting trigger for whistleblowing issues is the increase in the frequency or number of violations of organizations around the world and massive media coverage. The aim of the study is to analyze the influence of the Koh Ngomong attitude towards the intention to do whistleblowing. The study also examined the effect of the Koh Ngomong attitude on the tendency of employees to choose internal or external reporting channels. Subjects in this study were students in Magister of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Bali. The subject acts as a surrogate of a management accountant who reports a fraud (whistleblower). This study uses the between subject experimental method, with 2x2 factorial design manipulation. Analysis tool using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results of the study show that there is no difference in the reporting path between Koh Ngomong and non Koh Ngomong groups to become a whistleblower.

Social multi-modal event analysis via knowledge-based weighted topic model

Along with the development of mobile Internet and social network, people’s lifestyles are also changing, and many social websites (e.g. Facebook, YouTube, and WeChat) have sprung up, which leads to the emergence of a large number of multimedia data (e.g. text, image, and video) of various events. The goal of this paper is to mine event topics efficiently from massive and unordered social media data, which is beneficial to search, browse and monitor significant social events for users or governments. In order to achieve this goal, this paper proposes a novel Knowledge-Based Multi-Modal Weighted Topic Model (KBMMWTM) for social event analysis. The proposed KBMMWTM has following advantages: (1) The proposed KBMMWTM can effectively take advantage of the multi-modality of social events jointly. (2) The proposed KBMMWTM exploits word correlation in dataset as prior knowledge to improve the performance of event topic mining. We evaluate our KBMMWTM model on a real dataset and full experiments show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art models.

WHATSAPP (WA) DAN KONSEP JARAK SOSIAL BARU DI MASYARAKAT

<p>Abstract. Whatsapp (WA) as a new social media changes people's communication in cyberspace. Communication that initially can only be done in the real world, develops with the existence of cyberspace that makes communication can be done without having to meet, and can be done quickly and can be felt as if real. For this reason, this study aims to find out how public communication is before there is WA and after there is WA? Does WA change the concept of social distance for society? This research is important to do so that we know how WA as an active and massive communication media used by the community can change the concept of new social distance in society. The method used is qualitative data collection through interviews with several WA users. This interview was conducted by random sampling method with the selection of informants randomly. The theory used in this study is the theory of social distance. This study found that WA changed communication in cyberspace and WA also changed the concept of new social distance because after massive WA groups were used, people were free to disseminate information and had the right to comment without fear of social distance in the real world. People can also more easily realize their sympathies because groups in WA make it easier for them to carry out information and coordination to be able to carry out activities that show sympathy for others.</p><p><br />Keywords: Communication, Whatsapp, Social Distance</p>

Roundabout Thoughts on Communities and Codes of Conduct

A reflection on Neil Postman's 1998 observation about how the Internet changed the meaning of the word community from a group of people joined by location who may not have anything in common to a group of people networking together because of a shared interest. I thought about it in terms of massive social media networks out of anyone's control, and small special interest chat servers. I considered how the creation of codes of conduct within these new-kinds-of-communities are an attempt to work our way back to that old-kind-of-community.

Call For Life, 2017 by the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon

Call for Life is a mini-telethon aims to spread awareness and calls for the support and instant donations from the community. Amount raised: The last campaign in 2017 raised: $1,463,018.84 with total expected revenues over the period of 3 years: $2,003,018.84. Background and context: The idea first started in year 2008. Four campaigns were done in the past years (2008, 2012, 2014 and 2017). The campaign has developed through the years in donation means, awareness, funds raised, partners, national engagement and has successfully become more efficient and successful due to the process adopted. The 4th edition was in celebration of the 15th anniversary, hence the slogan “Where We Were and Where We Have Become” and focusing on success stories. A special recognition wall was launched at the 4th edition, the “Guardians' Wall”, fitting 18 guardians' names who pledged to donate 15,000 USD yearly over 3 years period. At the D-day we had a special episode hosted by the famous talk show Kalam El Nas by Marcel Ghanem offered for free to CCCL along with all the air time whether for TVC or interviews and reports and outdoor media. A professional call center was activated during the special TV episode. Donation means: calling to register pledges and partner courier company to collect/money transfer company/online/at the center/banks. Aim: Call for Life is a nationwide campaign aims to spread awareness and calls for the support and instant donations from the community so CCCL continues its mission of saving children's lives. Strategy/Tactics: Reviewing previous campaigns exit reports to benefit from remarks Study the best means/mechanism of donations Free and strong media campaign Positive content of promotional material and reports of the episode Send letters to big donors prior to the launching; trying to ensure big donations prior Facilitating the donation means Full special episode on the D-day broadcasted live at peak hour of viewership. Program process: Brainstorming Deciding on means/mechanism and sponsorship packages Setting media campaign's concept, idea and promotional plan set Preparing campaign´s project details and project plan Ensuring call center, short code, and proper dissemination of campaign's information to agents Coordination and preparation of all material and content of a special episode Trying to ensure donations prior to the d-day. Costs and returns: Costs: $6484 Revenues: $1,463,018.84 with total expected revenues over the period of 3 years: $2,003,018.84 What was learned: Call For Life has to have easy and varied donation means. Massive free media campaign is a must with episode at night peak viewership hour. Patient and survivors involvement has an added value. Innovative Guardian´s Wall ensures an appealing recognition which encourages donations. A one week campaign with one main telethon day gives sense of urgency for quick responses. Expenses shall remain minimal.

How a Botched Study Fooled the World About the U.S. Share of Mass Public Shootings: U.S. Rate is Lower than Global Average

A paper on mass public shootings by Adam Lankford (2016) has received massive national and international media attention, getting coverage in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, plus hundreds of other news outlets spanning at least 35 different countries. Lankford’s claim was that over the 47 years from 1966 to 2012, an enormous amount of the world’s mass public shooters -- 31% -- occurred in the United States. Lankford attributed this to America’s gun ownership. Lankford claims to have “complete” data on such shooters in 171 countries. However, because he has neither identified the cases nor their location nor even a complete description on how he put the cases together, it is impossible to replicate his findings. It is particularly important that Lankford share his data because of the extreme difficulty in finding mass shooting cases in remote parts of the world going back to 1966. Lack of media coverage could easily lead to under-counting of foreign mass shootings, which would falsely lead to the conclusion that the U.S. has such a large share. Lankford’s study reported that from 1966 to 2012, there were 90 public mass shooters in the United States and 202 in the rest of world. We find that Lankford’s data represent a gross undercount of foreign attacks. Our list contains 1,448 attacks and at least 3,081 shooters outside the United States over just the last 15 years of the period that Lankford examined. We find at least fifteen times more mass public shooters than Lankford in less than a third the number of years. Even when we use coding choices that are most charitable to Lankford, his 31 percent estimate of the US’s share of world mass public shooters is cut by over 95 percent. By our count, the US makes up less than 1.43% of the mass public shooters, 2.11% of their murders, and 2.88% of their attacks. All these are much less than the US’s 4.6% share of the world population. Attacks in the US are not only less frequent than in other countries, they are also much less deadly on average. Given the massive U.S. and international media attention Lankford’s work has received, and given the considerable impact his research has had on the debate, it is critical that this issue be resolved. His unwillingness to provide even the most basic information to other researchers raises real concerns about Lankford’s motives.

Venoplasty in MS

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common chronic autoimmune inflammatory demyelinating and neurodegenerative disorder of the CNS that may cause substantial long-term neurologic disability.1 Although genetic traits and environmental risk factors that contribute to individual disease susceptibility have been identified, and the involvement of the immune system during CNS tissue damage is beyond doubt, the precise underlying disease mechanisms still remain elusive. In addition, patients experience anxiety as to their individual prognosis and course of a disease that is—despite several approved and efficient disease-modifying treatments—still uncurable. Both the limited understanding of MS pathogenesis and the absence of a cure may explain why the hypothesis of MS being caused by “chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency” (CCSVI) generated such a profound resonance among patients and advocacy groups, and evoked a massive media coverage.

INDUSTRI KREATIF, MEDIA SOSIAL, DAN MINAT BERWIRAUSAHA: SINERGI MENUJU PEMBANGUNAN BERKELANJUTAN

<pre><em>The development of the creative industry is very important given its significant role in the Indonesian economy. Creative industries can develop in the hands of young people who have entrepreneurial spirit and are supported by the use of massive social media lately. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the influence of social media on entrepreneurial interest in the younger generation as potential creative industry developers. This will have an impact on sustainable development in relation to job creation. This study uses a simple regression analysis, the results of which strengthen the hypothesis that social media influences the interest in entrepreneurship among the younger generation. These results have implications for the importance of the role of universities in developing curriculum on entrepreneurship by adding portions to entrepreneurial practices and adding courses related to digital marketing.</em><em></em></pre><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>Font type Times News Roman, size 12pt and number of keywords not more than 5 keywords.</em></p>

The Blackfish Effect: Corporate and Policy Change in the Face of Shifting Public Opinion on Captive Cetaceans

In February 2010, a captive killer whale (Orcinus orca), or orca, killed his trainer at SeaWorld Florida. A cascade of events followed, including successful federal enforcement action against SeaWorld for employee safety violations. In 2012 and 2015, nonfiction books about SeaWorld's history with orcas were published; however, the 2013 documentary Blackfish has done the most to raise public awareness of captive orca welfare and trainer safety. It spawned a massive social media response, leading to the so-called "Blackfish Effect." SeaWorld's visitor numbers declined, business partners ended their relationships, and stock price plummeted. In 2012, Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta applied for a permit to import 18 wild-caught beluga whales from Russia; the permit was denied in 2013, the first time a public display permit had ever been denied in the history of the US Marine Mammal Protection Act. In 2014 and 2016, the California legislature considered bills phasing out captive orca exhibits in the state; the 2016 bill passed and became law in January 2017. In November 2015, a similar bill was introduced (and reintroduced in March 2017) in the US House of Representatives. In March 2016 SeaWorld announced it would end its orca breeding program company-wide and in January 2018 the Vancouver Aquarium announced it would no longer display cetaceans. Shifts in public perception of captive cetacean display strongly suggest policy makers should reconsider the legislative and regulatory status quo.

Dynamic Evolution of Multinational Relation’s Network in the South China Sea Arbitration Based on Massive Media Data Analysis

Right after the South China Sea Arbitration was concluded on 12th July 2016, it quickly attracted much attention in the world and became one of the international hot events. It is of great importance to infer the dynamic evolution of international relations before and after the hot events through quantitative analysis. International relations can be viewed as many complex social networks, whose structures are often profoundly changed with the emergence of hot events. To explore how multinational relation’s network was affected by the South China Sea Arbitration, Global Database of Events, Location, and Tone (GDELT), is used in this study. GDELT is a massive political science data created for studying world-wide political conflict and instability and contains more than 400-million geolocated events with global coverage from 1979 to the present. We have extracted nearly 30,000 events from July 5 to 25, 2016 related to the South China Sea Arbitration from GDELT, constructed the relation networks of the relevant countries, and found that the structures of the networks changed significantly during this course.

Exponentially time decaying susceptible-informed (SIT) model for information diffusion process on networks.

Modeling information diffusion on networks is a timely topic due to its significance in massive online social media platforms. Models motivated by disease epidemics, such as the Susceptible-Infected-Removed and Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS), ones have been used for this task, together with threshold models. A key limitation of these models is that the intrinsic time value of information is not accounted for, an important feature for social media applications, since "old" piece of news does not attract adequate attention. We obtain results pertaining to the diffusion size across the diffusion's evolution over time, as well as for early time points that enable us to calculate the phase transition epoch and the epidemic threshold, using mean field approximations. Further, we explicitly calculate the total probability of getting informed for each node depending on its actual path to the single seed node and then propose a novel approach by constructing a Maximum Weight Tree (MWT) to approximate the final fraction of diffusion, with the weight of each node approximating the total probability of getting informed. The MWT approximation is a novel approach that is exact for tree-like network and is specifically designed for sparse networks. It is also fast to compute and provides another general tool for the analyst to obtain accurate approximations of the "epidemic's" size. Extensive comparisons with results based on Monte Carlo simulation of the information diffusion process show that the derived mean field approximations, as well as that employing the MWT one, provide very accurate estimates of the quantities of interest.

КУЛЬТУРНА ДИПЛОМАТІЯ ЛЕМКІВСЬКИХ ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙ У ДІАСПОРІ В ДРУГІЙ ПОЛОВИНІ ХХ-го СТОЛІТТЯ

The article is devoted to the attempt to comprehensively analyze the features of the Lemko cultural diplomacy during 1940–1980s, when, in the conditions of their own statehood absence, there was left the only opportunity for the Lemko’s ethnic identity promotion abroad. It has been found out that the coordinating center for the Lemko organization cultural activities on the American continent was carried out by the Research Institute of Lemkivshchyna in America in 1976. The analysis has convincingly demonstrated the effectiveness of cultural diplomacy, which was implemented by representatives of the Lemko organizations in the United States and Canada. Its purpose was to promote the history and culture of the Rusyn-Ukrainians in the Western world, as well as protect the values of ethnic uniqueness and Ukrainian unity from the communist propaganda media attacks. The diversity of practicies used by the Lemkos comprised the following: the publishing activity of the scientific and cultural (the collection of works by B. I. Antonych, the Lemkivshchyna magazine, the two-volume encyclopedic edition «Lemkivshchyna: earth-people-history-culture») and propaganda (for example, a series of the English-language publications aimed at informing the Western world about the Lemkos forced eviction from their native lands during the first post-war years) content, museum activity (first of all, the Ukrainian Lemko Museum in Stanford), picketing of diplomatic establishments in Poland and the Soviet Union with a massive media involvement. The abovementioned activity made it possible to preserve the cultural identity of the Lemko migrants in a globalized Western world and establish their unity with the Ukrainians. The prospective continuation of this research presents the need for a holistic study of the XXth century foreign Ukrainians cultural diplomacy phenomenon.

“Congratulations, you’re on TV!”: Middle-space performances of live tweeters during the FIFA World Cup

Social television has transformed the traditional role of the television viewers by providing ‘ordinary people’ access to the public stage. This article describes how public access to television affected the dialogues of Finnish tweeters on Twitter during the massive media event of the FIFA World Cup. Through the lens of digital conversation analysis, the study shows how the media publicity of tweets changed the direction of the interaction between tweeters and transformed their roles vis-à-vis the television show, making one of them into a ‘media flasher’ and the others viewers of his or her performance. The publicity was constructed as important through noticings, congratulations, and compliments, and in their responses to these actions the participants oriented to dilemmatic expectations of agreeing with the previous speakerand displaying modesty and authenticity. The activities of live tweeters can be seen as middle-space performances where ordinariness and celebrity are intertwined.

PEMANFAATAN RADIO DAN TV KOMUNITAS SEBAGAI MEDIA HUMAS LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN

Public relations (PR) in an educational institution has an important role in addition to the positive image of the institution as well as the massive media publicity. Radio and television are a media community that continues to develop according to the needs of the times. This paper describes how the use of radio and television as one of a medium of public relations education institutions associated with the policies within requirements of establishment, management, funding, and material. With some of those provisions, the role and utilization of radio and television can be maximized.

Social media contents based sentiment analysis and prediction system

With the influence and social ripple effect of social media sites, diverse studies are in progress to analyze the contents generated by users. Numerous contents generated in real time contain information about social issues and events such as natural disasters. In particular, users show not only information about the events that occurred but also their sentiments. In this paper, we propose Polaris, a system for analyzing and predicting users’ sentimental trajectories for events analyzed in real time out of the massive social media contents, and show the results of preliminary validation work that we have done. We show both trajectory analysis and sentiment analysis so that users can obtain the insight at a glance. Also, we increased the accuracy in sentiment analysis and prediction by making use of the latest deep-learning technique.