BLACK SQUARES FOR BLACK LIVES? PERFORMATIVE ALLYSHIP AS CREDIBILITY MAINTENANCE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS ON INSTAGRAM

Black Squares for Black Lives? Performative Allyship as Credibility Maintenance for Social Media Influencers on Instagram

In June 2020, millions of Instagram users shared black squares along with hashtags including #BlackOutTuesday and #BlackLivesMatter before pausing their social media content for the day.At first in solidarity with the music industry, the black squares Chairside Table were co-opted by uninformed users hoping to show their support of Black Lives Matt

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Prediction of Commuter’s Daily Time Allocation

This paper presents a model system to predict the time allocation in commuters’ daily activity-travel pattern.The departure time and the arrival time are estimated with Ordered Probit model and Support Vector Regression is introduced for travel time and activity duration prediction.Applied in a real-world time allocation prediction experiment, th

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