Mudassar Hussain Shah

Bio: Mudassar Hussain Shah is an academic researcher from University of Sargodha. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 6 publications receiving 9 citations.

Cybersecurity for Data Science: Issues, Opportunities, and Challenges

Abstract: Cybersecurity (CS) is one of the critical concerns in today’s fast-paced and interconnected world. Advancement in IoT and other computing technologies had made human life and business easy on one hand, while many security breaches are reported daily. These security breaches cost millions of dollars loss for individuals as well as organizations. Various datasets for cybersecurity are available on the Internet. There is a need to benefit from these datasets by extracting useful information from them to improve cybersecurity. The combination of data science (DS) and machine learning (ML) techniques can improve cybersecurity as machine learning techniques help extract useful information from raw data. In this paper, we have combined DS and ML for improving cybersecurity. We will use the CS dataset, and ML techniques will be applied to these datasets to identify the issues, opportunities, and cybersecurity challenges. As a contribution to research, we have provided a framework that will provide insight into ML and DS’s use for protecting cyberspace from CS attacks.

Securitization of Islam and Muslims Through Social Media: A Content Analysis of Stopislam in Twitter

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to examine the securitization of Islam and Muslims on Twitter. Therefore, whether and to what extent securitized images of Islam and Muslims have been produced on Twitter and to analyze the dominant securitized themes and their sub-dimensions. The methodology used for this purpose consisted of quantitative and qualitative analysis and analyzed hashtags #stopislam trending on Twitter. It was found that #stopislam produced securitized images of Islam and Muslims. Totalitarianism as a sub-dimension of ideological threat in the context of Securitization of Islam is dominating than Sharia Law and Jihadism while no evidence has been found in Whahabism Category. Similarly, in the existential threat category in the securitization of Muslims sub-dimension, general Muslims are dominating than Women's, immigrants and refugees on #stopislam. #stopislm produced less neutral and favoring Muslims Tweets evident that hashtag produced securitized images of Islam and Muslims.

Correlation Between Newspapers’ Agenda and Public Agenda on National Issues during General Elections 2013 in Pakistan

Abstract: This article looks into the position of agenda-setting of national press primarily focusing on national issues of vital importance during the phase of Parliamentary General Elections 2013 in Pakistan. The study finds the correlation between news papers’ agenda and public agenda, examining the influence of national press on public perception on the issue of salience by using triangulation; media agenda on ten national issues of top priority has been explored i.e. US-drone attacks, economic crisis, corruption, Indo-Pak relations, terrorism, energy crisis, Pak-Taliban talks, education, unemployment and health, at the front and back pages of three leading national popular daily Urdu Newspapers of Pakistan. Public agenda is scrutinized by survey research from 600 respondents, to explore what public perceive about these most important issues? The finding of this study reveals a moderate positive correlation between media agenda and public agenda. Hence, a significant positive correlation exists only on four out of ten national issues i.e. terrorism, energy crisis, US-drone attacks, and economic crisis. It is inferred that agenda setting of the press is dominant over plurality of public voice. This study has the strategic and policy implications.

Coverage of Political News in Tweets of International News Agencies: A Comparative Analysis of World-Systems Countries

Abstract: This article attempts to study the flow of political news in tweets of four international news agencies: AP, AFP, Reuters and Xinhua, for 7 years from 2010 to 2016. Theoretically, the study takes its roots from the World System Theory of Immanuel Wallerstein. We used the content analysis method and examined the coverage of political news about 15 world countries (five core countries, five semi-periphery and five periphery countries) in 6746 tweets of international news agencies. We also analyzed the portrayal, retweet rate, favorite rate, and shared portrayal of world system countries. We found that there are significant differences in coverage of political news about the world countries in tweets of international news agencies. Moreover, Traditional hierarchies and structures of political news flow still exist on Twitter. Core countries are covered as well as shared more and positively as compare to the semiperiphery or periphery countries.

Covering China - Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): How ‘The News' and 'People's Daily' Develop Social Media Discourse Since Its' Inception

Abstract: The present study explores how 'CPEC' is covered and treated by the two eminent English newspapers The News (Pakistani Newspaper) and the People's daily (Chinese Newspaper) through their Facebook's official pages through the keyword search “China – Pakistan Economic Corridor” from the year 2015-19. The broader aspects, categories are formed; as development, economy, political, social, strategic and other, examined the treatment on their frequency and semantic network analysis on positive, negative and neutral frames through coding sheet. For this purpose, the quantitative content analysis is conducted to examine that how 'CPEC' is covered, framed and treated by the said newspaper at their official Facebook pages. The findings of the study reveal that 'China – Pakistan Economic Corridor' is projected significantly more strategic than economic on the posts appeared on the Chinese and Pakistani newspaper. The coverage appeared on The News is varied from positive, neutral and negative.

The Press and Foreign Policy

Abstract: THE PRESS AND FOREIGN POLICY' IT IS a defect of some of the studies of the diplomatic background of the Great War that they tend to ignore the influence on pre-war diplomacy of public opinion in general and of the press in particular. Based primarily on official documents such studies unconsciously tend to overemphasize the parts played by the leaders with whose activities the documents are so largely concerned and to neglect some of the less obvious forces that affected the course of events. The influence of the press, it is true, can never be measured accurately. \"No diviniiig rod can locate it,\" says Miss Salmon, \"no plummet sound its depth, no instrument of precision measure it, no astronomer compute its orbit.\"2 And yet that influence in pre-war Europe was very real and very considerable. Professor Fay goes so far as to list \"the poisoning of public opinion by the newspaper press in all the great countries\"3 as one of the chief underlying causes of the war. If the influence of the press cannot be exactly determined, however, it can at least be roughly estimated; and even where no attempt is made to estimate influence, a kniowledge of newspaper views on questions of foreign policy is of assistance in clarifying the atmosphere out of which the Great WYar came.

Reprensentation of islam and muslims on social media: a discourse analysis of facebook

Abstract: This paper explores social media conversations about Islam and Muslims through discourse analysis. The study looks into Facebook about the representation of Islam and Muslims. A discourse analysis of Facebook reveals that people are changing their perceptions, attitudes and opinions through the Facebook. Netizens like, comment and share the material in accordance with their interests and ideology. The study has found that Islam is the only religion on social media which is being portrayed in a negative fashion. The hot discourses we have found are jihad, niqab, hijab, mosques, terrorism, which are the most common discourses on Facebook.