scholarly journals Argumentation

Communication ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Innocenti
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Practical Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Public Sphere

Two broad divisions characterize orientations to studies of argumentation by communication scholars and scholars in other disciplines. First, communication scholars perform descriptive and normative studies of argumentation, as well as studies that attempt to integrate these two perspectives. Descriptive studies typically employ qualitative and social-scientific research methods and may analyze argumentation both in laboratory and real-world settings. Normative studies typically employ humanistic research methods and frequently analyze argumentation in the public sphere. Second, scholars may view argumentation as more of an epistemological activity—one that generates knowledge or justifies belief—or as more of a practical activity that is designed to achieve a variety of outcomes such as persuasion, consideration of a proposal, or acceptance of a premise. Various basic questions are addressed by argumentation research: How should we define “argumentation”? How should we analyze it? How should we evaluate it?

How Do We Take Real-World Action?

We the Gamers ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Karen Schrier
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Black Friday ◽  
The Revolution

Chapter 5 describes how games can support real-world action and change. How can knowledge be applied to the public sphere and serve communities? Why and how should games be used to enable ethics- and civics-in-action? What are the best practices and strategies for supporting connections among civics, ethics, and the real world using games? The chapter includes an overview of why it is necessary to engage in real-world action. It describes the benefits of applying learning to real-world contexts and processes, and why games may support this. It also includes the limitations of using games to apply knowledge, and how to minimize those limitations. Finally, it reviews strategies that teachers can take to use games to take action and make change. It opens with the example EteRNA, and also shares five examples-in-action: Reliving the Revolution, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, Community PlanIt, Bay Area Regional Planner, and Thunderbird Strike.

scholarly journals THE PUBLIC SPHERE AS THE EDUCATION OF MULTICULTURALISM AWARENESS

EDUTECH ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Yusar
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Abstract. This article was endeavor to describe the  awareness multicultural education in the Chinese Lampion Festival in Kota Bandung since 2011 to 2013. The research was held with the longitudinal, qualitative, and adopt to the action research methods. The evidence was describe that the public sphere was success to build the communicative action between the native ethnics and the Chinese. By the public sphere, each ethnics perceived their cultural differences and appreciate as an equality.  By this public sphere, the multiculturalism awareness was formed succesfully and reduce the ethnical stereotype between the native ethnics and the Chinese.  This article conclude that the awareness multicultural education may be doing by creating the public spheres. Keywords:   public sphere, education, multiculturalism Abstrak. Artikel ini menggambarkan pendidikan kesadaran multikulturalisme  melalui perayaan Cap Go Meh.  Etnis-etnis tempatan yang mengklaim sebagai pribumi memiliki stereotipe etnis yang kuat terhadap etnis Tionghoa. Penelitian telah dilakukan dengan paradigma kualitatif yang bersifat longitudinal mengadopsi pada metode action research. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ruang publik yang dibangun antara etnis tempatan dengan etnis Tionghoa memunculkan tindakan komunikatif antar etnis.  Melalui penciptaan ruang publik tersebut, kesadaran akan keberagaman muncul dari masing-masing etnis dan memadang bahwa budaya masing-masing berdiri setara dan muncul penghargaan atas masing-masing kebudayaan. Pemahaman multikulturalisme terbangun karena ruang publik yang diciptakan. Bagian penutup dijelaskan bahwa pendidikan kesadaran multikultur dapat ditempuh melalui penciptaan ruang-ruang publik. Kata kunci:  ruang  publik, pendidikan, multikulturalisme

Vengeance Culture Online

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Behavior

Vengeance. Payback. Retribution. Just deserts. Evening up the score. Punishment. If there is an ever-replicating and recurring Internet meme, it is one of revenge. Intimate photos are shared online post-relationship and end up picked up by for-profit pornographic websites. Privy information is leaked into private (narrow-cast) or semi-public or public spaces (broadcast) with massive amplifications of messages into the public sphere. Violent attacks and beat-downs are videotaped and shared on video sharing sites. Flash or cyber mobs are brought together to clean-out stores and to exact vengeance on particular businesses. Information and Communication Technology (ICT), with its nexus of pseudo-anonymity, fast dissemination of information, long-term persistence of data, and mass reach, provides multiple affordances for the exacting of vengeance. The popular culture of anonymous hacktivism and cyber-vigilantism further contribute to the sense of the Internet as an ungoverned and extralegal place. Finally, a general imprudence has meant the easy activation of Internet mobs and individuals to harm-causing rumor-sharing and behavior against others—sparked by doubtful claims or loose storytelling. ICT has enabled the spillover of real-world antipathies and dark emotions into virtual spaces, which then slosh back into the real world. This chapter examines the research in the area of vengeance and how such very human impetuses manifest online. Further, this chapter examines the design features of various ICT platforms and socio-technical spaces that may support vengeance-based communications and actions and proposes ways to mitigate some of these dark affordances.

Sanctuary and the Limits of Public Reason: A Deweyan Corrective

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-521
Author(s):  
Alicia Steinmetz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Real World ◽  
Public Reason ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Central Case ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Modes Of Engagement

AbstractThis article contributes to the debate over the appropriate place of religion in public reason by showing the limits of this framework for understanding and evaluating the real-world religious political activism of social movements. Using the 1980s Sanctuary Movement as a central case study, I show how public reason fails to appreciate the complex religious dynamics of this movement, the reasons actors employ religious reasoning, and, as a result, the very meaning of these acts. In response, I argue that a Deweyan perspective on the tasks and challenges of the democratic public offers a richer, more contextualized approach to evaluating the status of religion in the public sphere as well as other emerging publics whose modes of engagement defy prevailing notions of reasonableness and civility.

scholarly journals Research Methodologies: An Exciting Mixed Bag!

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Saraswati Raju
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific

There are many books and articles, which discuss a variety of social scientific research methods. As such, bringing out an issue on research methodologies may be somewhat questioned. However, our purpose here is somewhat different and twofold: to expose the readers to different subject fields with varying methodological concerns having specific disciplinary edges in one place and, in the process, indirectly touch upon the various possibilities while relooking afresh at existing research trends. The mixed bag thus deals with scholars directly pointing out the inadequacies of existing doctoral theses in the Indian universities on one hand to positioning the local in the historiography as one of the research concerns on the other.

Vengeance Culture Online

2014 ◽  
pp. 64-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Behavior

Vengeance. Payback. Retribution. Just deserts. Evening up the score. Punishment. If there is an ever-replicating and recurring Internet meme, it is one of revenge. Intimate photos are shared online post-relationship and end up picked up by for-profit pornographic websites. Privy information is leaked into private (narrow-cast) or semi-public or public spaces (broadcast) with massive amplifications of messages into the public sphere. Violent attacks and beat-downs are videotaped and shared on video sharing sites. Flash or cyber mobs are brought together to clean-out stores and to exact vengeance on particular businesses. Information and Communication Technology (ICT), with its nexus of pseudo-anonymity, fast dissemination of information, long-term persistence of data, and mass reach, provides multiple affordances for the exacting of vengeance. The popular culture of anonymous hacktivism and cyber-vigilantism further contribute to the sense of the Internet as an ungoverned and extralegal place. Finally, a general imprudence has meant the easy activation of Internet mobs and individuals to harm-causing rumor-sharing and behavior against others—sparked by doubtful claims or loose storytelling. ICT has enabled the spillover of real-world antipathies and dark emotions into virtual spaces, which then slosh back into the real world. This chapter examines the research in the area of vengeance and how such very human impetuses manifest online. Further, this chapter examines the design features of various ICT platforms and socio-technical spaces that may support vengeance-based communications and actions and proposes ways to mitigate some of these dark affordances.

scholarly journals ‘Information Science’ and Research Methods

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-222
Author(s):  
Tom Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Field Information ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Integrative Levels ◽  
Science And Research

Considers the problems of defining ‘information science’ as a unitary discipline and suggests that the concept of integrative levels offers an explanation for the fragmentation of the field. ‘Information’ has different contexts at different integrative levels, and different disciplines deal with these contexts. The paper then considers how information as a social phenomenon requires social scientific research methods to be applied to its investigation and sets out a new taxonomy for social research methods.

scholarly journals Public scientific communication: reflections on the public and its participation forms

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. C06
Author(s):  
Peter Sekloča ◽  
Ernest Ženko
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Social Category ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Public Forums

Scientific communication also pertains to the domain of society, where the formation of public opinion about science and technology is taking place. Concerning this process, two main points are exposed in the commentary. The first is a proposition on how the public as a social category may be conceptualized, and the second is the extent of the participation of members of the public in strengthening socialization and democratization practices in new, highly complex, contexts of scientific research. The public is conceptualized to include all citizens no matter their professional origin, including scientists, which promotes the idea of openness and equality of the public sphere where scientific issues are discussed. To be democratic in its practical-political setting, such a conception needs to deal with the problems of participation in a highly mediatized world, where not every member of the public could be included into scientific research. The author thus reflects on the mechanisms which would enable the formation of public forums where the trust of influential public actors as stakeholders of research can be tested.

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