Publications related to Mass media

How Words Move Hearts: Interpretable Machine Learning Models of Bias, Engagement, and Influence in Socio-Political Systems

We study socio-political systems in representative democracies. Motivated by problems that affect the proper functioning of the system, we build computational methods to answer research questions regarding the phenomena occurring in them. For each phenomen ...

EPFL2023

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

Jérémie Rappaz

Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

EPFL2022

Introduction - Milieux, media, écologie des savoirs

Simon François Dumas Primbault

De la Galerie de zoologie de Lyon aux musées coloniaux de l’Italie fasciste, en passant par les fouilles de Persépolis, les contributions rassemblées dans ce numéro se proposent de prolonger une anthropologie des lieux de savoirs par une écologie des prati ...

2021

Trust Indicators and Explainable AI: A Study on User Perceptions

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Andreas Sonderegger, Thanh Trung Phan

Nowadays, search engines, social media or news aggregators are the preferred services for news access. Aggregation is mostly based on artificial intelligence technologies raising a new challenge: Trust has been ranked as the most important factor for media ...

Springer2021

Halo Mass-concentration Relation at the High-mass End

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Huanyuan Shan, Ginevra Favole

The concentration-mass (c-M) relation encodes key information about the assembly history of dark matter halos. However, its behavior at the high mass end has not been measured precisely in observations yet. In this paper, we report the measurement of the h ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content on the platform. Yet, there is to date no substantial quantitative evidence ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

An Authoring Model For Interactive 360 Videos

Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

The recent availability of consumer-level head-mounted displays and omnidirectional cameras has been driving an explosion of 360 video content. Transforming the original recorded 360 video content in meaningful interactive multimedia presentations that sup ...

IEEE2020

From Polarizability to Effective Permittivity of Time-Varying Materials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

In this talk, we describe excitation of time-varying dipolar particles (time-modulated meta-atoms) by external time-varying fields from a nonstationary and causal perspective. For a time-harmonic excitation, we introduce a complex-valued function, called t ...

IEEE2020

Robust wave transport at subwavelength scale with chiral metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev, Nadège Sihame Kaïna

Rapid progress in all types of communication systems imposes each time more strict requirements on the communication devices, requiring having the overall device's size as small as possible, but also increasing the demands on the robustness of the transmis ...

IEEE2019

Methods of derivation and/or propagation of epithelial cells

Yann Barrandon, Andrea Zaffalon

The present invention relates to methods of derivation and/or propagation of epithelial cells from tissue comprising culturing said tissue in media containing an effective amount of a proprotein convertase inhibitor for a period of time allowing the deriva ...

2018

Selection Bias in News Coverage: Learning it, Fighting it

Karl Aberer, Jérémie Rappaz

News entities must select and filter the coverage they broadcast through their respective channels since the set of world events is too large to be treated exhaustively. The subjective nature of this filtering induces biases due to, among other things, res ...

2018

Extension of the Unmatched-Media Time Reversal Method to Locate Soft Faults in Transmission Lines

Mario Paolone

An alternative method based on time reversal to locate solid faults in transmission line networks was recently proposed by Codino et al. in the paper “An alternative method for locating faults in transmission line networks based on time reversal” (IEEE Tra ...

2018

Comparative effect of growth media on the monitoring of E. coli inactivation and regrowth after solar and photo-Fenton treatment

César Pulgarin, Stefanos Giannakis, Rosa Mosteo

This study intends to assess the cultivability of photo-treated Escherichia coil K-12 on media With different selectivity (PCA, LBA, T-7, T-7 + TTC, VRBA and MAC) and to establish optimal conditions for bacterial recuperation. For these purposes, immediate ...

Elsevier2017

Narrative Recomposition in the Context of Digital Reading

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

In any creative process, the tools one uses have an immediate influence on the shape of the final artwork. However, while the digital revolution has redefined core values in most creative domains over the last few decades, its impact on literature remains ...

EPFL2017

Effective models and numerical homogenization methods for long time wave propagation in heterogeneous media

Timothée Noé Pouchon

Modeling wave propagation in highly heterogeneous media is of prime importance in engineering applications of diverse nature such as seismic inversion, medical imaging or the design of composite materials. The numerical approximation of such multiscale phy ...

EPFL2017

Probing the Limits of Social Data : Biases, Methods, and Domain Knowledge

Alexandra Olteanu

Online social data has been hailed to provide unprecedented insights into human phenomena due to its ability to capture human behavior at a scale and level of detail, both in breadth and depth, that is hard to achieve through conventional data collection t ...

EPFL2016

Testbed for subjective evaluation of omnidirectional visual content

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Martin Rerabek

Omnidirectional visual content is a form of representing graphical and cinematic media content which provides subjects with the ability to freely change the direction of view. Along with virtual reality, omnidirectional imaging is becoming a very important ...

IEEE2016

Acoustic metamaterial properties of a 2D closed cellular solid with entrained fluid

Vladimir Dorodnitsyn

Metamaterials are often defined as artificial compositions designed to exhibit desired physical properties. These materials attract a lot of research attention due to unusual behavior that may not yet have been seen in nature. Although there is no commonly ...

EPFL2016

Cloaking via anomalous localized resonance. A connection between the localized resonance and the blow up of the power for doubly complementary media

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

This paper is devoted to the study of cloaking via anomalous localized resonance (CALR) in two and three dimensions in the quasistatic regime. Two key figures of CALR are (i) the localized resonance and (ii) the connection between the localized resonance a ...

Elsevier2015

Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change

Karl Aberer, Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo

Social media is becoming more and more integrated in the distribution and consumption of news. How is news in social media different from mainstream news? % This paper presents a comparative analysis covering a span of 17 months and hundreds of news events ...

2015