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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The following Background Briefing program
sounds terrific for both the current study and the reaccredited study. Remember
that transcripts are available of all Background Briefing programs and it is
broadcast at three different times.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
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Background Briefing [mailto:backgroundbriefing@your.abc.net.au] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 24 June 2010 1:06
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Christophersen, Paula P<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Social media and
sentiment mining</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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SENTIMENT MINING</a> </span></font></b></strong><font size=1
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Reporter: Shevonne Hunt <br>
Businesses and advertisers can already access enormous amounts of
personal data on social media sites, from where you live to what you
like. The next step is sentiment analysis, where online conversations are
mined for words and thoughts, for a commercial advantage. Is this
ethical, and could computers really sift sarcasm from enthusiasm? <br>
<br>
Sunday 27th June 9.10am <br>
Tuesday 29th June 7.05pm <br>
Wednesday 30th June 4.05am <br>
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Reporter: Ian Townsend <br>
Beneath the rich farming soils of the Darling Downs there's a gaseous
gold mine. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mobile</st1:place></st1:City>
drilling rigs dot the landscape as energy companies rush to secure the
next big export contracts - for natural gas. It's cheaper and cleaner
than oil and looks set to supersede coal for making electricity. But
farmers fear it will contaminate an even more valuable resource - water.<br>
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Producer: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Chris</st1:PlaceName>
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<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Primary school</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> kitchen
gardens, behavioural economics and frugal innovation, they’re all
important elements in a complex strategy to improve heart health and
reduce the obesity epidemic. From a public forum at the St
Vincent’s Institute in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:place></st1:City>.
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Reporter: Philip Dodd of the BBC. <br>
From <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place></st1:City>
to Harvard, rock'n'roll to rap, American soft power is well understood.
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Bollywood? They are part of the soft power emanating from the East, from
the emerging superpowers, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
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Bunnings, Greenpeace, Ikea and the US Congress are part of an unlikely
coalition pushing for a ban on illegally logged timber. An Australian DNA
test may solve the problem of enforcement but the Rudd government is yet
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