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Sonya Song, PhD Candidate Michigan State University song2song@twitter sonya2song@gmail.com
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Example of Psychology: Comments > Shares on Facebook
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Adapting Psychology Theories and Findings ! Social Psychology; cognition and emotion. ! Eight “basic” emotions: interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt. ! The information that arouses happiness and disgust is particularly talkable, and ! The more emotional a story is, the more likely people are to pass it on.
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Last Example: Perceptions of Different News Sections
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Workflow of Post-Censorship Detection Crawl links from three sources Check crawled links repeatedly Archive web pages from links
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No Matter Your Skill Level or Academic Discipline
Journalism
Coding
Social Sciences
Data journalism
Data liberation
Psychology
Interactive media
Data visualization
Sociology
Media economics
Data analysis
Economics
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Understand Your Own Passion, Curiosity and Strength ! What are you the most passionate about? ! What are you the most eager to learn about? ! Which people and communities do you care about the most? ! Have you discovered your own intellectual strength?
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Join/Create a Community and Start Your First Project! ! Attend hackathons, workshops, etc. ! Join online groups, forums, etc. ! Learn to use Google Scholar, and ! Don’t forget the library of your school may have the most print and electronic resources!
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How do I Answer these Questions? ! Passion = Reveal crucial information ! Curiosity = How to get a message across ! Strength = Integrate various disciplines ! My projects as an interpretation: ! Facebook study ! Censorship study
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Back to the Context of Colombia and Women ! “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy ! Happy nations are all alike; every unhappy nation is unhappy in its own way! ! Happy women are all alike; every unhappy woman is unhappy in her own way!
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THE HACKATHON WILL BE MUCH FUN!!!
ยกGRACIAS! Sonya Song song2song@twitter sonya2song@gmail.com