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  • Negativity makes us polarized: a longitudinal study of media tone and opinion polarization in Hong Kong

    • Authors: Yi Wu; Fei Shen (2020)

  • Public opinion polarization has recently become a prominent social problem in many societies, but whether negative media tone is a possible culprit for opinion polarization remains unclear. Using opinion-polling data on approval ratings of Chief Executive from the Public Opinion Program at the University of Hong Kong, we examined the longitudinal relationship between media tone and opinion polarization in Hong Kong. Opinion polarization is conceptualized as the dispersion and the bimodality of opinion distribution, and is operationalized by opinion distribution variance, kurtosis and a composite score. Positive and negative media tones are coded using computerized text analysis programs. Time series analysis suggests that negative news media tone Granger causes opinion polarization ...
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  • Fake news or bad news? Toward an emotion-driven cognitive dissonance model of misinformation diffusion

    • Authors: Rui Wang; Yuan He; Jing Xu; Hongzhong Zhang (2020)

  • Misinformation about food safety has become a serious problem in Mainland China. This study explores the cognitive, affective, and environmental factors affecting the acquisition and diffusion of food safety misinformation. Based on a national sample of Chinese Internet users, we found that: (1) social media are the major source of misinformation about food safety, while exposure to online news reduces levels of misinformation; (2) Internet self-efficacy reduces levels of misinformation, but it also facilitates information diffusion; (3) individuals who possess more misinformation disseminate food safety (mis)information more frequently online; (4) negative emotions mediate levels of misinformation and the diffusion of information; and (5) levels of distrust moderate the mediating effect of...
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  • Rebellion from Outside the Margins: Representation of de-notified tribe and Questions of Identity in Fandry (2013)

    • Authors: Rutuja Deshmukh (2023)

  • Fandry (2013) is the first feature film written and directed by Nagraj Manjule. The film received a national award for the best debut director and several accolades in national and international film festivals. This paper offers introductory remarks on the representation of the de-notified tribe- Kaikadi in the film Fandry (2013). It starts with the observation about the social location of de-notified tribes and stigmatization around these communities and how Fandry as a film becomes a vehicle of resistance and formation of defiant identity. I also offer a critical reading of contemporary scholarship on Fandry, which overlooks the de-notified tribe identity and appropriates the struggle in the film with the larger Dalit struggle and caste issues. While the Dalit framework...
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  • Kant on the Experience of Time and Pure Imagination

    • Authors: Yaron Senderowicz (2022)

  • Kant officially argues that the role of the representation of time in the synthetic a priori judgments of arithmetic and the general theory of motion implies that time must be an a priori condition of intuition. In this paper, I claim that the ideality of the representation of time is independently supported also by Kant’s explanation of the possibility of temporal experience...
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  • The needs of understanding: Kant on empirical laws and regulative ideals

    • Authors: James R. O'Shea (1997)

  • This article examines the relationship in Kant between transcendental laws and empirical laws (focusing on causal laws), and then brings a particular interpretation of that issue to bear on familiar puzzles concerning the status of the regulative maxims of reason and reflective judgment...
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  • De-idealizing Disagreement, Rethinking Relativism

    • Authors: Katherina Kinzel (2018)

  • Relativism is often motivated in terms of certain types of disagreement. In this paper, we survey the philosophical debates over two such types: faultless disagreement in the case of gustatory conflict, and fundamental disagreement in the case of epistemic conflict...
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  • Self and will

    • Authors: N. M. L. Nathan (1997)

  • When do two mental items belong to the same life? We could be content with the answer -just when they have certain volitional qualities in common.