The insider on the outside: a novel system for the detection of information leakers in social networks

Confidential information is all too easily leaked by naive users posting comments. In this paper we introduce DUIL, a system for Detecting Unintentional Information Leakers. The value of DUIL is in its ability to detect those responsible for information leakage that occurs through comments posted on news articles in a public environment, when those articles have withheld material non-public information. DUIL is comprised of several artefacts, each designed to analyse a different aspect of this challenge: the information, the user(s) who posted the information, and the user(s) who may be involved in the dissemination of information. We present a design science analysis of DUIL as an information system artefact comprised of social, information, and technology artefacts. We demonstrate the performance of DUIL on real data crawled from several Facebook news pages spanning two years of news articles

Determining citizens’ opinions about stories in the news media: analysing Google, Facebook and Twitter

We describe a method whereby a governmental policy maker can discover citizens’ reaction to news stories. This is particularly relevant in the political world, where governments’ policy statements are reported by the news media and discussed by citizens. The work here addresses two main questions: whereabouts are citizens discussing a news story, and what are they saying? Our strategy to answer the first question is to find news articles pertaining to the policy statements, then perform internet searches for references to the news articles’ headlines and URLs. We have created a software tool that schedules repeating Google searches for the news articles and collects the results in a database, enabling the user to aggregate and analyse them to produce ranked tables of sites that reference the news articles. Using data mining techniques we can analyse data so that resultant ranking reflects an overall aggregate score, taking into account multiple datasets, and this shows the most relevant places on the internet where the story is discussed. To answer the second question, we introduce the WeGov toolbox as a tool for analysing citizens’ comments and behaviour pertaining to news stories. We first use the tool for identifying social network discussions, using different strategies for Facebook and Twitter. We apply different analysis components to analyse the data to distil the essence of the social network users’ comments, to determine influential users and identify important comments

Britain Legalizes the Creation of Cloned Human Embryos: UD Professors Comment on the Decision

News release announces two articles that offer comments from UD professors on cloning human embryos

U.S. Company Layoffs -- Getting Ready for Economic Slowdown? UD Professors Comment on Effects, Possible Recession

News release announces two articles on recent layoffs and the comments on them from University of Dayton professors

Mammography Exemplars in online News Commentary: Prevalence of Exemplars, Effects on Risk Perceptions and Mammography Intentions, and Mechanisms of Action

Multiple prior studies have examined the nature of news coverage of mammography but have neglected comments generated by readers. However, comments on online news stories have been shown to affect readers’ beliefs and behaviors. Understanding the potential effects of user-generated comments and comments with exemplars, in particular, is necessary to fully understand the effects of online mammography news on media consumers. Study 1 describes the prevalence, content, and representativeness of mammography exemplars in comments on online news about mammography using a content analysis of mammography news articles (n = 71) and comments (n = 5,858) appearing on The New York Times website from November 2009 to December 2014. Study 2 tests the effects of comments on risk perceptions and mammography intentions and mechanisms of these effects using a randomized online experiment with a sample of U.S. women between the ages of 38 and 48. Of comments on news articles about mammography, 31% included a mammography exemplar. Of those, 41% included a mammogram-detected breast cancer exemplar and 19% included a false-positive mammogram exemplar. Additionally, articles with mammography exemplars were more likely to have comments that included mammography exemplars. In Study 2, when compared to comments without exemplars, comments with exemplars did not produce effects on mammography intentions or risk perceptions. Compared to comments about false positives, comments about mammogram-detected breast cancer led to higher intentions to have a mammogram in the next two years, lower intentions to wait until age 50 to have a mammogram, and higher breast cancer risk perceptions. Effects were moderated by participant education level, family history of breast cancer, history of prior mammography, and time spent reading the experimental manipulation. Some effects on mammography intentions were mediated by changes in attitude toward waiting until age 50 to have a mammogram. This study adds to evidence suggesting that comments appearing with news articles have effects on readers. Those who share content online and allow user-generated comments should consider potential effects before allowing comments to be posted

Bush\u27s Plan For $1 Trillion in Tax Cuts: Two UD Professors Comment on Program\u27s Effects

News release announces two separate articles on Bush\u27s plan for tax cuts and comments on it from UD faculty

Comments on provisions of tort in Iraqi Civil Law

Iraqi Civil Law number 40 of 1951 has some rules driven from Islamic Law and some others from foreign legislations. Despite that, law has some defects relating basically to drafting some of its articles from one hand, and from another hand some recourses of this law were improper. This search contains some comments on rules dealing with tort. Some comments concern with tort of personal actions, some other comments concern with tort of a third party Action which has been regulated by law in three articles divided into two places. Study deals as well with some comments on liability of things which has been prescribed by the Iraqi legislator in four controversial places

UD Professor of History Says Monica/Missile Week Distorted by Mainstream Media Obsession

News release announces two articles that feature comments from Una Cadegan about mainstream media affects on alleged terrorist attacks