Not only is it becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from opinion, but also to understand why certain content ends up in our feeds, recommendations or search results in the first place. Yet it’s more important than ever to understand it. This is where infrastructural meaning-making comes into play, and it’s something that the datafied society needs to understand.
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If we think about phrases, cliches, or old adages in the English language, many of them are rooted in a color, or the lack thereof. Many of these phrases also speak to the phenomenon of disinformation, its spread, and its entrenchment in our daily lives. This short essay will introduce several such colorful phrases.
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Social Informatics (SI), in its broadest sense, is an approach for understanding interactions between various societal systems and information-communication technologies.
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The study advocates for educational institutions to incorporate digital literacy training and privacy education on a proactive basis. Also, it stresses the importance of ongoing monitoring and evaluation to ensure that the benefits outweigh the challenges. Finally, the wise and appropriate use of social media may reframe and elevate students’ academic journeys.
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Modern AI advancements are full of hopes and hypes and some horrors. The question is – can we address those horrors enough? Or is there a choice to make between autonomy and authority? How will that choice play out in a real world scenario?
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New, paradigm-changing technologies like ChatGPT provide us with a good opportunity to consider our professional identity and how we can grow as professionals.
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Despite the convenience and speed of online resources, school libraries continue to hold a significant place in fostering learning, critical thinking, and personal growth among students.
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The scientific community is currently grappling with a reproducibility crisis, marked by an alarming increase in the number of published articles that have been retracted due to errors or fraudulent practices. This crisis can be attributed to various factors, including the intense pressure to publish, insufficient training in research methods, and flaws in the peer review process.
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Formulating a well-defined search query is one of the prominent success factors in getting relevant search results on any search system. However, no latest review or survey exists in the literature that studies query formulation from the perspective of book retrieval. The authors fill this literary gap by studying query formulation in light of research publications from 2007-22.
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Sentiment analysis provides insights that guide investment decisions by analysing and interpreting sentiment from textual data sources such as news articles, social media posts, and financial reports. However, using sentiment analysis to make financial decisions has its own set of issues and constraints.
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