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Know Your Meme mentions our research

December 30, 2018enc_ase_user_20_20

Know Your Meme, the site that researches and documents Internet memes and viral phenomena, founded in December 2008, mentions our research “On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities“.

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Dr. Evangelos Kotsifakos presents ENCASE at the Open University of Municipality of Peristerion, Athens, Greece

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    • Know Your Meme mentions our researchKnow Your Meme, the site that researches and documents Internet memes and viral phenomena, founded in December 2008, mentions our research “On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities“.... Read more...
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Michael

The Washington Post reports on young children being exposed to disturbing YouTube videos and refers to our study.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07046

"Critics also say the problem is not visibly improving. Typing “Peppa” into YouTube’s search engine, for example, generated at least one recommended video that the researchers classified as “disturbing” 70 percent of the time, according to research published in January based on reviews of 2,500 YouTube videos.

The researchers also found that children have a 45 percent chance of seeing at least one “disturbing” or otherwise inappropriate video within 10 clips — a stretch that often amounts to an hour or so of viewing. Some inappropriate videos were crude animations, some featured actors wearing costumes. Still others, including the marijuana-themed Peppa video, were actual children’s videos that had been doctored with new words and images spliced into the original."

"Graduate students at Cyprus University of Technology who reviewed the videos featuring several characters popular with young children found that the fake videos often contained violence, profanity and sexually charged behavior.

“I’m a parent. It’s definitely happening more often than I’m comfortable with,” said Jeremy Blackburn, a computer science professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who co-authored the study and has three children. “The problem is that they can be served and recommended stuff that is not just garbage but inappropriate, just bad stuff"

Cyprus University of Technology / Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου

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Dr. Evangelos Kotsifakos from LSTech, talks about the threats minors face in online social media at the Open University of Municipality of Peristerion, in Athens! 👏👏
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Datalab https://datalab.csd.auth.gr/ at Τμήμα Πληροφορικής ΑΠΘ along with the M.Sc. in "Data and Web Science" are organising the IEEE/WIC/ACM WI’19 conference at #Thessaloniki on 14-17 Oct, 2019

WI’19 aims at a strong programme including scientific papers, demos & Workshops ! details at : https://webintelligence2019.com/

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