Establishing the social licence to operate large scale solar facilities in Australia: insights from social research for industry

This project sets our the preconditions and best practice principles for establishing social licence to operate. Introduction The main objective of the research was to identify the preconditions necessary for utility-scale solar installations to have a social licence to operate in Australia. Specifically, the research set out to understand general attitudes towards solar energy and the acceptability of large scale solar energy facilities with a view to creating this report. The research consisted of three key components: • Quantitative phase: a survey of a representative sample of 1,197 Australians. • Qualitative phase: a series of 15 group discussions held in capital cities, regional centres and communities near large scale solar facilities. Research to investigate perceptions of the desirability of utility-scale solar facilities. • Review phase: a review of the factors that influence social licence to operate solar facilities, conducted via in-depth interviews and covered in the group discussions with stakeholders in communities living near large scale solar facilities. The quantitative survey included testing the impact of exposure to two sets of stimuli (consisting of images and information about large scale solar facilities) through asking survey participants about their attitudes towards large scale solar facilities relating to land use; efficiency; reliability; visual impacts; economic impacts; environmental impacts; health impacts and the cost of electricity before and after seeing the stimulus materials.   &nbsp

Livre sera-t-il numérique (Le) : résultats phases quantitatives

L\u27étude Publics du livre numérique a été réalisée par Ipsos Media CT pour le compte du Centre national du livre,dans le cadre d\u27un programme d\u27études réalisées pour le Conseil du livre, instance de débat et de réflexion placée auprès du Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Cette étude s’est déroulée en trois étapes : 1. Étude de cadrage : 10 questions (septembre-octobre 2009) 4 000 personnes représentatives de la population française âgée de 15 ans et plus, interrogées à domicile en face à face 2. Analyse des publics : questionnaire de 25 minutes (décembre 2009-janvier 2010) 1 000 personnes représentatives des profils des publics caractérisés en étape 1, interrogées en ligne 3. Approfondissement des publics : entretiens d’1 à 2 heures selon les publics (janvier-février 2010) Ce document présente les résultats des phases quantitatives de l\u27enquête

Livre sera-t-il numérique ? (Le) : synthèses phases quantitatives

L\u27étude Publics du livre numérique a été réalisée par Ipsos Media CT pour le compte du Centre national du livre,dans le cadre d\u27un programme d\u27études réalisées pour le Conseil du livre, instance de débat et de réflexion placée auprès du Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Cette étude s’est déroulée en trois étapes : 1. Étude de cadrage : 10 questions (septembre-octobre 2009) 4 000 personnes représentatives de la population française âgée de 15 ans et plus, interrogées à domicile en face à face 2. Analyse des publics : questionnaire de 25 minutes (décembre 2009-janvier 2010) 1 000 personnes représentatives des profils des publics caractérisés en étape 1, interrogées en ligne 3. Approfondissement des publics : entretiens d’1 à 2 heures selon les publics (janvier-février 2010) Ce document présente une synthèse des phases quantitatives de l\u27enquête

Livre sera-t-il numérique (Le)

L\u27étude Publics du livre numérique a été réalisée par Ipsos Media CT pour le compte du Centre national du livre,dans le cadre d\u27un programme d\u27études réalisées pour le Conseil du livre, instance de débat et de réflexion placée auprès du Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication. Cette étude s’est déroulée en trois étapes : 1. Étude de cadrage : 10 questions (septembre-octobre 2009) 4 000 personnes représentatives de la population française âgée de 15 ans et plus, interrogées à domicile en face à face 2. Analyse des publics : questionnaire de 25 minutes (décembre 2009-janvier 2010) 1 000 personnes représentatives des profils des publics caractérisés en étape 1, interrogées en ligne 3. Approfondissement des publics : entretiens d’1 à 2 heures selon les publics (janvier-février 2010

But a walking shadow: designing, performing and learning on the virtual stage

Representing elements of reality within a medium, or taking aspects from one medium and placing them in another is an act of remediation. The process of this act, however, is largely taken for granted. Despite the fact that available information enables a qualitative assessment of the history of multimedia and their influences on different fields of knowledge, there are still some areas that require more focused research attention. For example, the relationship between media evolution and new developments in scenographic practice is currently under investigation. This article explores the issue of immediacy as a condition of modern theatre in the context of digital reality. It discusses the opportunities and challenges that recent technologies present to contemporary practitioners and theatre design educators, creating a lot of scope to break with conventions. Here, we present two case studies that look into technology-mediated learning about scenography through the employment of novel computer visualization techniques. The first case study is concerned with new ways of researching and learning about theatre through creative exploration of design artefacts. The second case study investigates the role of the Immersive Virtual World Second Life™ (SL) in effective teaching of scenography, and in creating and experiencing theatrical performances

Exploring the views of students on the use of Facebook in university teaching and learning

Facebook use among students is almost ubiquitous; however, its use for formal academic purposes remains contested. Through an online survey monitoring student use of module Facebook pages and focus groups, this study explores students’ current academic uses of Facebook and their views on using Facebook within university modules. Students reported using Facebook for academic purposes, notably peer–peer communication around group work and assessment – a use not always conceptualised by students as learning. Focus groups revealed that students are not ready or equipped for the collaborative style of learning envisaged by the tutor and see Facebook as their personal domain, within which they will discuss academic topics where they see a strong relevance and purpose, notably in connection with assessment. Students use Facebook for their own mutually defined purposes and a change in student mind- and skill-sets is required to appropriate the collaborative learning benefits of Facebook in formal educational contexts

Structure versus accident in the defeat of France’s mainstream Right, April–June 2017

Widely expected to recapture France’s presidency and win a parliamentary major ity in the 2017 elections, France’s mainstream Right instead suffered a crushing and divisive defeat. A major reason for this was contingent: the selection of a candidate who three months before polling day was placed under investigation for embezzling public funds. Other reasons were more structural, in particular the progressive dislocation of the bipolar multipartism which had characterised France’s party system for over four decades and the resultant strategic divisions within the Right. Although broadly chronological, this analysis of the long electoral cycle of 2016–2017 assesses the respective importance of proximate and long-term factors in the Right’s defeat