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Mocking Birds: Investigation and Performance of Selected Works Featuring Birdsong by Messiaen and Westerlinck
Get PDFThis thesis is a creative project that includes a study of the lives and compositional techniques of Olivier Messiaen and Wilfried Westerlinck. Investigation of the composers’ techniques explains aural similarities between the two pieces. The research informed a live performance of Messiaen’s Le merle noir and a recording project of Westerlinck’s Meeting a Mockingbird in Texas
The Politics of Misinformation
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Data Duped: How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation
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Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics and How to Cure It
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Unspun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
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You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape
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Artificial Misinformation: Exploring Human-Algorithm Interaction Online
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Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America
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A Study of Image Editing AI Awareness in Children: Can AI that Lets Still Images Speak Capture the Interest of Young Children?
Get PDFThis study explores the application of image and video editing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in early childhood education, with a particular focus on “image-speaking AI”. We investigated whether using AI could effectively capture children’s attention. The results showed that, under certain settings, the longest attention span was achieved when a character spoke by means of AI(*p\u3c0.05). Rather than adding sound to a still image, using AI to move the mouth of the still image captured the children’s attention. However, the parents from the survey indicated that the realism of the mouth movements seemed unnatural and could distract the viewers from understanding the contents