'This way to the exhibition': genealogies of urban spectacle in Jean Rhys's interwar fiction

Both Jean Rhys's relationship to modernism and her representation of urban space need to be understood as engaging with a tangled history of exhibitory practices informing metropolitan spatiality. I trace this engagement through the interwar fiction, to Good Morning, Midnight (1939). Through her insertion into the latter text of the 1937 Paris World's Fair, Rhys presents the 'exhibition' as exemplary for a regime of metropolitan representation based on an imperial legacy of ethnographic-cumcommodity display. Her exploration of urban space, through the related sites of the hotel, the exhibition and the street, draws on the Surrealist aesthetics of dream and automatism, which offer crucial, if highly ambiguous, strategies for uncovering the interdependence between metropolitan and colonial spaces within daily life, notably the use of ethnography as a critical and diagnostic tool to be employed both within and against the institutional spaces of art. Rhys's relationship to modernism thus turns on the status of ethnographic display within metropolitan perception, and on its role as a hidden link between capitalist and fascist modernities

AthPPA: A Data Visualization Tool for Identifying Political Popularity over Twitter

Sentiment Analysis is an actively growing field with demand in both scientific and industrial sectors. Political sentiment analysis is used when a data analyst wants to determine the opinion of different users on social media platforms regarding a politician or a political event. This paper presents Athena Political Popularity Analysis (AthPPA), a tool for identifying political popularity over Twitter. AthPPA is able to collect in-real-time tweets and for each tweet to extract metadata such as number of likes, retweets per tweet etc. Then it processes their text in order to calculate their overall sentiment. For the calculation of sentiment analysis, we have implemented a sentiment analyzer that is able to identify the grammatical issues of a sentence as well as a lexicon of negative and positive words designed specifically for political sentiment analysis. An analytic engine processes the collected data and provides different visualizations that provide additional insights on the collected data. We show how we applied our framework to the three most prominent Greek political leaders in Greece and present our findings there

European value changes. Signals, drivers, and impact on EU research and innovation policies. Final report: Contract no. 30-CE-0696992/00-20

This report studies the impact of changing value systems on the EU research and innovation policy. Starting from the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, it investigates the societal values which directly or indirectly concern EU research and innovation policy. The study presents the most significant trends in values changes related to research and innovation, in particular the public feelings and expectations towards science, towards the protection of individual rights, such as privacy and personal data protection, and human dignity and safety. It develops a set of clusters of weak signals triggering value changes and produces an analysis of the emerging value controversies which are relevant for future research and innovation policies. The recommendations highlight those improvements required for a clearer and more integrated application of value principles in research and innovation policy-making and for creating a better evidence-base in this policy area