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Border Patrol: The Rise and Role of Fact-Checkers and Their Challenge to Journalistsâ Normative Boundaries
Although most research to date has focused on leading U.S. fact-checkers, similar initiatives are gaining strength all over the world. This study draws on a globally disseminated questionnaire, plus interviews with fact-checkers on four continents, to examine their role and reach in relation to other journalistic enterprises, as well as the challenges they face. A conceptual framework of journalistic boundary-setting helps guide the exploration
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Theorizing Digital Journalism: The Limits of Linearity and the Rise of Relationships
For more than 50 years, our understanding of journalism drew on theories that emerged in an environment in which the components of a mediated message could be isolated well enough to measure and track. Yet today we live in a media world that is simultaneously immersive and interconnected, instantaneous and iterative, and individualized to an extent unimaginable a generation ago. In this environment, theories positing âmedia effectsâ are considerably less practical or meaningful than they once were, a topic explored in the first half of this chapter. Some of the ways that contemporary journalism scholars are actively recontextualizing the field are then outlined, followed by consideration of the proposition that our best hope for understanding the âeffectsâ of digital journalism may be to focus on the diversity of relationships it engenders. Looking at connections and interactions can profitably guide our study of this fluid, holistic media world
On the unlikelihood of specific long range forces in immunologic and enzymatic reactions
In the past few years, a great many experiments have been performed by Rothen (24, 25) which he has interpreted as suggesting that antigen and antibody, and enzyme and substrate proteins, can react specifically, although separated by distances of hundreds of angstroms. This hypothesis seems to conflict with evidence accumulated from many other investigations indicating that short range interactions, involving distances usually associated with electrostatic and van der Waalsâ forces, and hydrogen bonds, of the order of 5 A, operate in these reactions. We have therefore engaged in a critical analysis of the experimental techniques used by Rothen to determine whether some interpretation other than that invoking the existence of specific long range forces could be found to explain his experimental results
Representing Childhood and Forced Migration: Narratives of Borders and Belonging in European Screen Content for Children
This article explores representations of childhood and forced migration within a selection of European screen content for and about children. Based on the findings of a research project that examined the intersections of childrenâs media, diversity, and forced migration in Europe (www.euroarabchildrensmedia.org), funded by the UKâs Arts and Humanities Research Council, the article highlights different ways in which ideas of borders and belonging are constructed and deconstructed in a selection of films and television programmes that feature children with an immigration background. Drawing on ideas around the âpolitics of pityâ (Arendt), the analysis explores conditions under which narratives of otherness arise when it comes to representing forcibly displaced children within European-produced childrenâs screen media. It also examines screen media that destabilize borders of âusâ and âthe otherâ by emphasizing the agency of children from migration backgrounds, and revealing both the similarities and the differences between European children with immigration backgrounds and White European-born children. It is argued here that, operating according to the notions of living âtogether-in-differenceâ (Ang), ânarratabilityâ (Chouliaraki and Stolic), and âthe struggle for belongingâ (Kebede), these representations destabilize narratives of borders and otherness, suggesting that children with a family history of immigration âbelongâ to European societies in the same ways as White European-born children
Measurements of Partial Reflections at 3.18 Mhz Using the CW Radar Technique
An equipment for measuring partial reflections using the FM-CW-radar principle at 3.18 MHz, installed at the Ionospheric Observatory Juliusruh of the CISTP (HHI), is described. The linear FM-chirp of 325 kHz bandwidth is Gaussian-weighted in amplitude and gives a height resolution of 1.5 km (chirp length is 0.6 sec). Preliminary results are presented for the first observation period in winter 1982/83
Magnetic Field Induced Phase Transitions in YBa2Cu4O8
The -axis resistivity measurements in YBa_2Cu_4O_8 from Hussey et al. for
magnetic field orientations along the c-axis as well as within the ab-plane are
analyzed and interpreted using the scaling theory for static and dynamic
classical critical phenomena. We identify a superconductor to normal conductor
transition for both field orientations as well as a normal conductor to
insulator transition at a critical field H_c||a with dynamical critical
exponent z=1, leading to a multicritical point where superconducting, normal
conducting and insulating phases coexist
Fundamental constraints for the mechanism of superconductivity in cuprates
Considerable progress has been made over the last decade in understanding the
phenomenological properties of the cuprate high-T superconductors and in
producing well characterized high quality materials. Nevertheless, the pairing
mechanism itself remains controversial. We establish a criterion to test
theories for layered superconductors relying on a substantial interlayer
contribution. The criterion is based on the ratio of the interlayer
contribution to the total superfluid density, which is traced back to the
inverse squared effective mass anisotropy. The anisotropy can be measured
rather accurately by various experimental techniques. It turns out that models
relying on interlayer pairing cannot be considered as serious candidates for
the mechanism of superconductivity in cuprate superconductors
Radiation Damping Effects in Two Level Maser Oscillators
Several experiments [1,2] have noted recently that when an inverted two-level spin system was permitted to radiate spontaneously, the resulting oscillation was characterized by an appreciable amplitude modulation. The phenomenon was first believed to be the result of interference of different spin packets in an inhomogeneously broadened spectrum [1]. A theoretical analysis (which will be reported separately) shows that this is not the case. The spins are not independent but are coupled together by means of their radiation field. This explanation has since been by its original authors
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