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Endogenous measures for contextualising large-scale social phenomena: a corpus-based method for mediated public discourse
This work presents an interdisciplinary methodology for developing endogenous measures of group membership through analysis of pervasive linguistic patterns in public discourse. Focusing on political discourse, this work critiques the conventional approach to the study of political participation, which is premised on decontextualised, exogenous measures to characterise groups. Considering the theoretical and empirical weaknesses of decontextualised approaches to large-scale social phenomena, this work suggests that contextualisation using endogenous measures might provide a complementary perspective to mitigate such weaknesses.
This work develops a sociomaterial perspective on political participation in mediated discourse as affiliatory action performed through language. While the affiliatory function of language is often performed consciously (such as statements of identity), this work is concerned with unconscious features (such as patterns in lexis and grammar). This work argues that pervasive patterns in such features that emerge through socialisation are resistant to change and manipulation, and thus might serve as endogenous measures of sociopolitical contexts, and thus of groups.
In terms of method, the work takes a corpus-based approach to the analysis of data from the Twitter messaging service whereby patterns in users’ speech are examined statistically in order to trace potential community membership. The method is applied in the US state of Michigan during the second half of 2018—6 November having been the date of midterm (i.e. non-Presidential) elections in the United States. The corpus is assembled from the original posts of 5,889 users, who are nominally geolocalised to 417 municipalities. These users are clustered according to pervasive language features. Comparing the linguistic clusters according to the municipalities they represent finds that there are regular sociodemographic differentials across clusters. This is understood as an indication of social structure, suggesting that endogenous measures derived from pervasive patterns in language may indeed offer a complementary, contextualised perspective on large-scale social phenomena
Annual report of the officers of the town of Jackson, New Hampshire for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022.
This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire
The Adirondack Chronology
The Adirondack Chronology is intended to be a useful resource for researchers and others interested in the Adirondacks and Adirondack history.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arlpublications/1000/thumbnail.jp
Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents?
Electoral reforms ofer an opportunity to incumbents to change the rules strategically, for their own benefts. From this aspect, the low number of studies addressing the efect of incumbents’ potential strategic manipulations of the electoral rules
is striking. Most research analyses single reform cases, ofering an overview of
the context, the negotiations, and the outcome of the reform process. Comparative
research on strategic electoral manipulation, however, is scarce, and almost nonexistent on non-transitional settings or established democracies. To fll this gap, the
present study examines whether European electoral reforms have served the shortterm interest of the incumbent parties, analysing data in 30 European countries of
all relevant electoral reforms carried out between 1960 and 2011. Interestingly, the
results do not support the assumption that incumbent parties generally beneft from
carrying out a reform. Moreover, it fnds no substantial diferences in this regard
between major and minor reforms, and neither the age of democracies nor the timing
of the reform has a signifcant efect on reformers’ gains. The paper discusses possible explanations for the negative efect found, and it concludes that, apart from promoting self-interest and the unpredictability of the reforms’ efects, the most probable causes are the reformers’ alternative goals
The Role of Cybersecurity in the Public Sphere - The European Dimension
he aim of this paper is to present the areas in EU and domestic legal systems which cover currently applicable laws on cybersecurity and the related cyber-liability. Legal regulations related to cybersecurity that are currently in force embrace only a very narrow understanding of the notions of cyberspace and cybercrime. This paper aims to present those areas of the existing regulations in which the notions of cyber-liability have been preliminarily defined. Issues that are currently viewed as only marginally relevant to the functioning of states in the domain of cyberspace operations or artificial intelligence are also related to cyber-liability. The paper covers issues related to online platforms as well as the role of the state and public administration, network technologies and financial
institutions in cybersecurity system especially from European perspective. It also investigates the issues related to strategic and political responsibility, cooperation mechanisms, obligations of telecommunication entrepreneurs, personal data and drone operations in public space. Part of the paper is also
related to the movement of cultural assents, digital platforms, blocking injunctions and blocking access, threats of the cyberterrorism, cybersecurity, cybercrime in Hungary, including COVID-19 environment, as well as authorities competent for cybersecurity in Germany. This broad perspective is used to better understand regulatory purposes in European contexts to secure digital society development
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Math for Liberation: Designing a Math of Voting Systems Unit for Lewiston Middle School
We discuss the design and implementation of a week-long voting systems module in a local eighth-grade math classroom. The goal of the module is to connect math to social action to help students understand math as a tool to understand and change our world. In the unit, students created informed mathematical opinions about plurality, runoff, and ranked-choice voting systems, culminating in a student-created proposal for which system should be used in student leadership team elections the following year
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