scholarly journals Web Scraping of COVID-19 News Stories to Create Datasets for Sentiment and Emotion Analysis

Author(s):  
Poojitha Thota ◽  
Elmasri Ramez
Author(s):  
Kevin Wise ◽  
Hyo Jung Kim ◽  
Jeesum Kim

A mixed-design experiment was conducted to explore differences between searching and surfing on cognitive and emotional responses to online news. Ninety-two participants read three unpleasant news stories from a website. Half of the participants acquired their stories by searching, meaning they had a previous information need in mind. The other half of the participants acquired their stories by surfing, with no previous information need in mind. Heart rate, skin conductance, and corrugator activation were collected as measures of resource allocation, motivational activation, and unpleasantness, respectively, while participants read each story. Self-report valence and recognition accuracy were also measured. Stories acquired by searching elicited greater heart rate acceleration, skin conductance level, and corrugator activation during reading. These stories were rated as more unpleasant, and their details were recognized more accurately than similar stories that were acquired by surfing. Implications of these results for understanding how people process online media are discussed.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Gibbons ◽  
Rodney J. Vogl ◽  
Thomas Grimes ◽  
Charles P. Thompson
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2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. A. Gibbons ◽  
N. M. Traxel ◽  
R. J. Vogl ◽  
T. Grimes
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2018 ◽  
pp. 120-164
Author(s):  
Alessandra Corigliano
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Low Cost ◽  

Nella sentenza di seguito commentata, la Corte d'Appello di Milano, in merito alla decisione di Ryanair di escludere qualsiasi intermediazione commerciale nella vendita dei propri biglietti aerei, si è pronunciata nella vertenza tra la compagnia aerea irlandese e l'agenzia di viaggi italiana Viaggiare che, in primo grado, ha denunciato il comportamento di Ryanair in quanto avrebbe ostacolato con il proprio comportamento l'agenzia di viaggio nella vendita dei biglietti aerei di Ryanair direttamente ai consumatori, costringendo l'agenzia stessa a riutilizzare i dati forniti dal database di Ryanair al fine di vendere indirettamente i biglietti sul suo sito web. La Corte (in parziale riforma della sentenza del Tribunale di primo grado) ha ritenuto che la decisione della compagnia aerea di riservarsi la vendita di biglietti aerei non costituisse un abuso di posizione dominante come previsto dall'articolo 102 del Trattato sul Funzionamento dell'Unione Europea, in quanto Ryanair deteneva nel mercato dei voli europei solo il 10%, quota questa molto bassa, che varrebbe a escludere una posizione dominante della compagnia su detto mercato. Nell'ottica della normativa antitrust, è stata accolta la mozione di Ryanair volta ad escludere una posizione dominante sul mercato dei voli europei, mentre nell'ottica dei diritti di proprietà intellettuale la domanda di Ryanair è stata respinta. A questo proposito, la Corte non ha accolto la mozione di Ryanair in base alla quale l'uso dei suoi marchi da parte di Viaggiare violasse i diritti privativi di Ryanair; la Corte ha inoltre stabilito che il database di Ryanair non potesse essere considerato di proprietà di quest'ultima, in quanto lo stesso, essendo del tutto svincolato da specifiche tecniche e funzionali che ne dettano la scelta e l'organizzazione dei dati, non può essere considerato alla stregua di una manifestazione creativa e, quindi, proprietà intellettuale ai sensi dell'art. 2, 64-quinques e 64-sexies della Legge sul Copyright. La Corte ha quindi ritenuto che non vi fosse nemmeno protezione ai sensi della cosiddetta dottrina "sui generis" del database Rynair poiché la protezione di tale database era finalizzata ad escludere la commercializzazione dei biglietti aerei e non a proteggere gli sforzi di investimento di Ryanair. La condotta di Viagiare di "screen scraping" dei dati Ryanair relativi all'offerta di biglietti aerei è stata considerata legittima in quanto Ryanair - nei Termini di Utilizzo del suo sito web - ha fornito l'accesso (concessione di licenza) a terzi dei suoi dati


MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 


Erdkunde ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-204
Author(s):  
Marcus Hübscher ◽  
Juana Schulze ◽  
Felix zur Lage ◽  
Johannes Ringel

Short-term rentals such as Airbnb have become a persistent element of today’s urbanism around the globe. The impacts are manifold and differ depending on the context. In cities with a traditionally smaller accommodation market, the impacts might be particularly strong, as Airbnb contributes to ongoing touristification processes. Despite that, small and medium-sized cities have not been in the centre of research so far. This paper focuses on Santa Cruz de Tenerife as a medium-sized Spanish city. Although embedded in the touristic region of the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz is not a tourist city per se but still relies on touristification strategies. This paper aims to expand the knowledge of Airbnb’s spatial patterns in this type of city. The use of data collected from web scraping and geographic information systems (GIS) demonstrates that Airbnb has opened up new tourism markets outside of the centrally established tourist accommodations. It also shows that the price gap between Airbnb and the housing rental market is broadest in neighbourhoods that had not experienced tourism before Airbnb entered the market. In the centre the highest prices and the smallest units are identified, but two peripheral quarters stand out. Anaga Mountains, a natural and rural space, has the highest numbers of Airbnb listings per capita. Suroeste, a suburban quarter, shows the highest growth rates on the rental market, which implies a linkage between Airbnb and suburbanization processes.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciara Greene ◽  
Gillian Murphy

Previous research has argued that fake news may have grave consequences for health behaviour, but surprisingly, no empirical data have been provided to support this assumption. This issue takes on new urgency in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. In this large preregistered study (N = 3746) we investigated the effect of exposure to fabricated news stories about COVID-19 on related behavioural intentions. We observed small but measurable effects on some related behavioural intentions but not others – for example, participants who read a story about problems with a forthcoming contact-tracing app reported reduced willingness to download the app. We found no effects of providing a general warning about the dangers of online misinformation on response to the fake stories, regardless of the framing of the warning in positive or negative terms. We conclude with a call for more empirical research on the real-world consequences of fake news.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda Lynn Groft ◽  
Nathan Pistory ◽  
Rachel Hardy ◽  
Peter Joseph McLaughlin

With the proliferation of neuroscience-related messages in popular media, it is more important than ever to understand their impact on the lay public. Previous research has found that people believed news stories more when irrelevant neuroscientific explanations were added. We sought to reveal whether such information could cause a change in social behavior. Specifically, based on publicized findings of the relationship between social behavior and the neurotransmitter oxytocin, we proposed that participants would accept more strangers into their in-group, or alternatively decrease in-group size, if told that there were oxytocin-based (relative to psychological construct-based) health benefits for doing so. In two tasks, participants were shown faces and written information about stimuli that could match their race, politics, and religion to varying degrees. In spite of evidence that participants processed the primes, and were sensitive to their level of similarity with stimuli, oxytocin-based priming did not alter categorization, or pupil dilation. It did not alter cross-race viewing behavior, as measured by an eye tracker, in consistent ways. Unexpectedly, pupil dilation increased when viewing stimuli of the same religion, an effect entirely related to White liberal Christians viewing other Christians. Overall, these results suggest that neuroscience information may impact some judgments, but lay people will not alter their likelihood of acceptance of strangers simply because they were primed with a neuroscience- (or more specifically, neurotransmitter-) based reason for doing so.


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