1980 Clinic Yearbook

The Clinic is the yearbook of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College (formerly Jefferson Medical College) at Thomas Jefferson University

1981 Clinic Yearbook

The Clinic is the yearbook of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College (formerly Jefferson Medical College) at Thomas Jefferson University

Fake News und Desinformation: Herausforderungen für die vernetzte Gesellschaft und die empirische Forschung

Desinformation ist eine Konstante der politischen Kommunikation. Doch mit der Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten und der Brexit-Abstimmung in Großbritannien erhielten bewusst lancierte Falschnachrichten eine neue gesellschaftliche Bedeutung. Denn nun wurde sichtbar, welche Wirkungen Falschmeldungen für demokratische Systeme haben. Der Band geht diesem Phänomen auf den Grund, indem er herausarbeitet, was "Fake News" sind. Er geht der Frage nach, wie, warum und von wem sie eingesetzt werden und reflektiert, was man gesellschaftlich und persönlich dagegen tun kann. Das Buch gibt zu diesem Zweck einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der empirischen Forschung zu Fake News und Desinformation, besonders mit Blick auf deren Verbreitung, Erkennbarkeit und Wirksamkeit. Zugleich diskutiert er in einer Mischung aus Essays, theoretischen Erörterungen und empirischen Studien die Herausforderungen von Desinformation für unsere Gesellschaft und beleuchtet so das Thema von allen Seiten.Disinformation has long been a tool used in political communication. However, with the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States and in the run-up to Britain's 'Brexit' from the European Union, deliberately falsified news gained a whole new social meaning. Now, the devastating effects false reports can have on democratic systems have become visible. This book explores this phenomenon by defining what 'fake news' really is. It examines how, why and by whom it is used and reflects on what can be done about it, both on a societal and personal level. To this end, the book provides an overview of the state of empirical research into fake news and disinformation, particularly with regard to their dissemination, recognisability and effectiveness. At the same time, it discusses the challenges disinformation poses to our society in a mixture of essays, theoretical discussions and empirical studies, which explore the topic from all sides

Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 35 (1960-1961)

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General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine: A Biographical Record of Alumni and Officers, 1900-1975

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Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 34 (1959-1960)

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Outsourced Congress: How Congress Relies on Outside Organizational Policy Information

In recent decades, in-house policy experience and expertise within Congress has fallen as members of Congress have shifted resources towards constituent-casework, communications and leadership functions and away from personal office or committee policy staff. Headcounts in the legislative support agencies at Congress's disposal have shrunk by over 40 percent since 1979. At the same time, American politics has seen an explosion of activity by policy demanding groups, and privately funded policy research and planning organizations. These organizations are able to serve as auxiliary service bureaus to staffers and members of Congress, strategically providing legislative subsidy in the hopes of affecting policy outcomes. In this dissertation, I develop a micro-level theory of information processing in Congress, in which individual congressional staffers serve as agents of members tasked with the challenge of learning about policy issues and making recommendations to their bosses in complex information environments. It is these individual staffers, I argue, that mediate the institution's need for policy relevant information and these potential sources of outside subsidy. Though dedicated public servants, congressional staffers are generally under-resourced, over-stretched, and frequently on the losing end of an information asymmetry with the policy-demanders that they meet and interests they must rely on for legislative subsidy. As a result, staffers serve less as policy or subject matter experts in their own right, and more as gatekeepers or selective aggregators, engaged in a process of search and evaluation of policy expertise produced by outside interests. The implication of this theory is that members of Congress rely on biased sets of information produced by outside, often ideological interests, and selected for them by constrained and bias-prone staffers. Using original survey data from the 2017 and 2019 Congressional Capacity Surveys, comprising the largest academic survey sample of congressional staff gathered to date, I investigate how congressional staff evaluate privately provisioned, outside policy information depending on the ideological nature of the information source. This work highlights the importance of these ideological networks of outside information purveyors. Finally, I use IRS 990 data from Washington D.C.-based think tanks to map the network of coordination between these subsidy providing organizations that is implied by their interlocking directorates. This dissertation contributes to a broader understanding of Congress by presenting and testing a micro-level theory of information evaluation within the institution, highlighting the importance of individual staffers and their motivations in the collective functioning of the institution. In doing so, it offers a theoretical bridge between scholars of the political organizations that produce these subsidies, and the scholars of Congress, as an institution which relies on them.PHDPolitical ScienceUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163019/1/zfurnas_1.pd

OSU theses and dissertations : 1983-1992

Departmental and author index of Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations accepted by the Graduate School