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Identifying Archetypal Perspectives in News Articles.
A novel approach to news aggregation is proposed. Rather than ranking or summarisation of cluster topics, we propose that articles are grouped by topic similarity and then clustered within topic groups in order to identify archetypal articles that represent the various perspectives upon a topic. An example application is examined and a preliminary user study is discussed. Future applications and evaluation of validity are outlined
Writing a Media Analysis
Non-profit organizations and foundations need to understand the media landscape in order to gain a thorough understanding of how to present their positions on critical issues. Media analyses can be used to identify messages, examine how those messages are framed, and see how existing coverage of an issue could be improved. These analyses entail systematically taking a "slice" of media coverage from a set time-frame, often in the top daily newspapers, magazines and broadcast news outlets. The coverage can be classified and analyzed to identify communication opportunities for nonprofits and foundations, and strategic recommendations can be drawn to help them effectively disseminate their messages
Democracy, the academic field and the (New Zealand) journalistic habitus
The relationship between journalism and the academy is historically fraught. Any mention of the word ‘theory’ is only likely to exacerbate these tensions, since it perhaps signifies, most clearly, the division
between both identities. Drawing on the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper considers, with particular empirical reference to the New Zealand context, the often antagonistic relationship between
the ‘journalistic field’ and the ‘academic field’. I examine how academic identities are sometimes represented ‘fantasmatically’ (Glynos and Howarth, 2007) in journalistic discourse and explore the contradictions between journalism’s official commitment to democratic values and the desire of at
least some journalists to silence or lampoon academic voices, or insist that theoretical reflection is somehow incompatible with good journalism. The articulation of particular journalistic identities is contextualised with reference to the more ‘objective’ logic of the New Zealand journalistic field and, in
particular, the structuring of its concrete relationship with the academic field through journalism education programmes. Although the culturally sedimented practices precluding the possibility of a different inter-field dynamic are considerable, I conclude by ‘visualising’ an alternative relationship, one constituted, on all sides, by what Williams Connolly (2005) characterises as a properly democratic
ethos of ‘agonistic respect’ across difference
The Many Publics of Science: Using Altmetrics to Identify Common Communication Channels by Scientific field
Altmetrics have led to new quantitative studies of science through social
media interactions. However, there are no models of science communication that
respond to the multiplicity of non-academic channels. Using the 3653 authors
with the highest volume of altmetrics mentions from the main channels (Twitter,
News, Facebook, Wikipedia, Blog, Policy documents, and Peer reviews) to their
publications (2016-2020), it has been analyzed where the audiences of each
discipline are located. The results evidence the generalities and specificities
of these new communication models and the differences between areas. These
findings are useful for the development of science communication policies and
strategies
Lead with Distinction
A few weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of spending a day with Dick Motta, a great Aggie who spent a lifetime teaching young men about basketball and life. Motta won at every level of coaching, leading Grace High School to the Idaho state championship, Weber State College to three conference championships, and the NBA Washington Bullets to their only championship, in 1978. He was known as a players’ coach, and his players, including former Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan, were fiercely loyal to him. This from a man who never actually played the game beyond high school.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/1303/thumbnail.jp
A value creation model from science-society interconnections: Archetypal analysis combining publications, survey and altmetric data
The interplay between science and society takes place through a wide range of intertwined
relationships and mutual influences that shape each other and facilitate continuous knowledge
flows. Stylised consequentialist perspectives on valuable knowledge moving from public
science to society in linear and recursive pathways, whilst informative, cannot fully
capture the broad spectrum of value creation possibilities. As an alternative we experiment
with an approach that gathers together diverse science-society interconnections and reciprocal
research-related knowledge processes that can generate valorisation. Our approach
to value creation attempts to incorporate multiple facets, directions and dynamics in which
constellations of scientific and societal actors generate value from research. The paper
develops a conceptual model based on a set of nine value components derived from four
key research-related knowledge processes: production, translation, communication, and
utilization. The paper conducts an exploratory empirical study to investigate whether a set of
archetypes can be discerned among these components that structure science-society interconnections.
We explore how such archetypes vary between major scientific fields. Each
archetype is overlaid on a research topic map, with our results showing the distinctive topic
areas that correspond to different archetypes. The paper finishes by discussing the significance
and limitations of our results and the potential of both our model and our empirical
approach for further research.Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and
Competitiveness (EXTRA project, grant CSO2013-48053-R)Oslo Institute for Research
on the Impact of Science (OSIRIS, grant 256240)Ramo´n y Cajal grant from
the Spanish Ministry of Science (RYC2019-
027886-I
Form-based codes: An overview of the literature
Urban form, sustainability, community vision, place specificity, code document clarity, and efficiency of the development process are identified as the essential themes behind form-based codes by Evan Evangelopoulos and Cornelius Nurworsoo. The authors note the need to develop measurable parameters to better study these themes and understand the impact of form-based codes in their effort to reform US cities and move them away from Euclidian zoning
Product-Service System applied to Distributed Renewable Energy. A classification system, 15 archetypal models and a strategic design tool
Access to modern energy services represents a great challenge for about 1.4 billion people living in low-income and developing countries. In this paper we discuss the combination of Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) with Product-Service Systems (PSS), a particular type of value proposition that shifts the business focus from selling products to delivering performances. The application of PSS models to DRE is considered a promising approach to deliver sustainable energy solutions in low-income and developing countries. This research aims at filling the knowledge gap regarding the combination of these two models and in particular at proposing a new classification system for PSSs applied to DRE. In this paper we present the development of a comprehensive classification able to encompass all the most important dimensions characterising PSS applied to DRE and we identify 15 archetypal models of PSS applied to DRE. This new classification system and the related archetypal models have been tested and evaluated with companies and experts from Botswana and South Africa, showing their potential to support innovation in this field.The research that led to this paper is framed within the LeNSes project (Learning Network on Sustainable energy systems) funded by the European Commission (2013-2016, Edulink Programme)
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