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10 Feb 2013 : My paper titled "Audience Measurement and Media Fragmentation: Revisiting the Monopoly Question" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Media Economics. You can read a pre-print version here here
6 June 2012 : My Paper Titled "Measuring Media Use Across Platforms: Evolving Audience Information Systems" is now published in International Journal on Media Management
20 March 2012: My Paper Titled "Media Consumption Across Platforms: Identifying User Defined Repertoires" is online as an early publication on the New Media and Society site
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Category Archives: Social Media
Fake social media profiles: My own experience with Facebook
Just read this blog in the economist, stating how many social media fans/ followers etc are actually fake machine generated accounts. The Blog mentions that Mitt Romney gained 17% followers in a day and interestingly, a friend tweeted about Mitt … Continue reading
Facebook ads impact is just more ‘measurable’ than TV ads, not necessarily ‘effective’
They have been talking for a while about the death of the 30 second commercial. And social media were not the first technologies that inspired such claims.Yet, the size of Facebook with its tightly connected ‘anatomy’ has made these claims … Continue reading
Words of the mouse can mislead: Google Translator exposed through more fundamental evidence
My previous post got advocates of artificial intelligence to accuse me of making arguments against Google Translator (GT) based on proper nouns or misspelled words. These they contended made GT confound translation with transliteration in that particular case. However, I … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence May Only Take Us So Far: The Abject Failure of Google Translator
I like to experiment with language services (Hindi versions) of Google Products. Granted that I don’t need to do this, since everyone I communicate with over email is perhaps as much or more fluent in English than in Hindi. So … Continue reading
Here’s how Kapil Sibal Should Have Dealt with Facebook or Whoever he had a problem with Online!
Mr Kapil Sibal is upset because certain pages of a social networking site (Facebook) contains material where people express their opinions with rather creative expression to convey their displeasure against the government. He summons the top bosses of these companies … Continue reading
