scholarly journals #iamhere: Collective Counterspeech and the Quest to Improve Online Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512110638
Author(s):  
Catherine Buerger
Keyword(s):  
Online Discourse ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regular Practice

This article examines the Facebook group #jagärhär, a Sweden-based collective of thousands of people who have made a regular practice of responding en masse to what they regard as hateful comments online. #jagärhar is one of the largest and best-organized collective efforts to respond directly to hatred online anywhere in the world. Drawing on data collected through ethnographic observation and interviews, the article explores two primary research questions: (1) how do the external counterspeech actions of group members work to counter hatred (and, sometimes, misinformation)? and (2) how do the internal practices of the group keep members engaged? I argue that instead of focusing their work on preventing future hateful speech (presumably by changing the minds or incentives of those who post it), #jagärhär members fight against its effects—attempting to lessen the impact of the hateful speech by hiding it in the comment threads, speaking to the “movable middle” rather than those posting hatred, and encouraging more counterspeech against it.

scholarly journals The integration of heterogeneous information from diverse disciplines regarding persons and goods

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Aram ◽  
Aurelio López Fernández ◽  
Daniel Muñiz Amian
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Heterogeneous Information ◽  
Dna Analyses ◽  
Isthmus Of Panama ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Written Sources

Abstract This article presents a relational database capable of integrating data from a variety of types of written sources as well as material remains. In response to historical research questions, information from such diverse sources as documentary, bioanthropological, isotopic, and DNA analyses has been assessed, homogenized, and situated in time and space. Multidisciplinary ontologies offer complementary and integrated perspectives regarding persons and goods. While responding to specific research questions about the impact of globalization on the isthmus of Panama during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the data model and user interface promote the ongoing interrogation of diverse information about complex, changing societies. To this end, the application designed makes it possible to search, consult, and download data that researchers have contributed from anywhere in the world.

scholarly journals A VALUABLE NATURAL AREA AS A SYSTEM MARKETING PRODUCT VERSUS EXPECTATIONS OF TOURISTS AS ACTIVE PURCHASERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Baruk ◽  
Anna Goliszek
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Method Of Averaging ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions

The article is theoretical and empirical in nature. The theoretical part provides a cognitive and critical analysis of the world literature. According to the approach presented in this part, valuable natural areas are ‘system marketing products’ which should be co-created by purchasers. The research aim of the article is to identify the significance assigned by tourists to various characteristics of valuable natural areas and group the tourists based on this. Three research questions were formed. In order to answer them, primary research was conducted by means of a questionnaire. The results were statistically analysed using the method of averaging and factor analysis. The results indicate that the relatively highest significance from the 25 elements of valuable natural areas evaluated was assigned to cleanliness and food. Untypical elements (e.g. ‘photographic safari’) were the least significant. Respondents were assigned to six groups linked to various types of activities. This points to the necessity to adapt elements of the product, i.e. a valuable natural area, to the various expectations of the purchasers.

scholarly journals The Impact of Community Housing Characteristics and Epidemic Prevention Measures on Residents’ Perception of Epidemic Prevention

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7289
Author(s):  
Chi-Tz Kuo ◽  
Hsiao-Jui Sue ◽  
Po-Han Chen
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Truncated Regression ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Housing Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Deep Recession

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, many parts of the world have fallen into deep recession. Governments in every country have adopted various measures to restrict social gatherings due to the need to control the pandemic. This includes restrictions on activities in homes and communities. Fundamentally, epidemic prevention relies on the measures individuals take. A community’s epidemic prevention measures become more critical as activities are held in houses or communities once again. From the perspective of the theory of planned behavior, this study investigates whether the various epidemic prevention measures and characteristics of a community affect residents’ perception of epidemic prevention. We use the truncated regression model as the primary research method. The empirical results show that the community’s epidemic prevention measures can change residents’ awareness of the importance of epidemic prevention. Moreover, the scale of the community and management committee are also found to have a partial impact.

scholarly journals Current Research on Microbe-Plastic Interactions in the Marine Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Latva ◽  
Vinko Zadjelovic ◽  
Robyn Wright
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Resistance Genes ◽  
Community Assembly ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance Genes ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact

The microbial colonisers of plastics – the ‘plastisphere’ – can affect all interactions that plastics have with their surrounding environments. While only specifically characterised within the last 10 years, at the beginning of 2021 there were 140 primary research and 65 review articles that investigate at least one aspect of the plastisphere. We gathered information on the locations and methodologies used by each of the primary research articles, highlighting several aspects of plastisphere research that remain understudied: (i) the non-bacterial plastisphere constituents; (ii) the mechanisms used to degrade plastics by marine isolates or communities; (iii) the capacity for plastisphere members to be pathogenic or carry antimicrobial resistance genes; and (iv) meta-OMIC characterisations of the plastisphere. We have also summarised the topics covered by the existing plastisphere review articles, identifying areas that have received less attention to date – most of which are in line with the areas that have fewer primary research articles. Therefore, in addition to providing an overview of some fundamental topics such as biodegradation and community assembly, we discuss the importance of eukaryotes in shaping the plastisphere, potential pathogens carried by plastics and the impact of the plastisphere on plastic transport and biogeochemical cycling. Finally, we summarise the future directions suggested by the reviews that we have evaluated and suggest other key research questions.

Biomedical Informatics Publications: a Global Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (01) ◽  
pp. 82-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Garcia-Remesal ◽  
C. Bielza ◽  
J. Crespo ◽  
D. Perez-Rey ◽  
C. Kulikowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Informatics ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenging Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Scientific Sense

SummaryBackground: In the past decade, Medical Informatics (MI) and Bioinformatics (BI) have converged towards a new discipline, called Biomedical Informatics (BMI) bridging informatics methods across the spectrum from genomic research to personalized medicine and global healthcare. This convergence still raises challenging research questions which are being addressed by researchers internationally, which in turn raises the question of how biomedical informatics publications reflect the contributions from around the world in documenting the research.Objectives: To analyse the worldwide participation of biomedical informatics researchers from professional groups and societies in the best-known scientific conferences in the field. The analysis is focused on their geographical affiliation, but also includes other features, such as the impact and recognition of the conferences.Methods: We manually collected data about authors of papers presented at three major MI conferences: Medinfo, MIE and the AMIA symposium. In addition, we collected data from a BI conference, ISMB, as a comparison. Finally, we analyzed the impact and recognition of these conferences within their scientific contexts.Results: Data indicate a predominance of local authors at the regional conferences (AMIA and MIE), whereas other conferences with a worldwide scope (Medinfo and ISMB) had broader participation. Our analysis shows that the influence of these conferences beyond the discipline remains somewhat limited.Conclusions: Our results suggest that for BMI to be recognized as a broad discipline, both in the geographical and scientific sense, it will need to extend the scope of collaborations and their interdisciplinary impacts worldwide.

scholarly journals Data Mining Approach in Determining the Relationships Between the Economy and the General Government Sector Size

e-Finanse ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Tomasz Skica ◽  
Jacek Rodzinka ◽  
Teresa Mroczek
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Data Mining Approach ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
General Government ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bayes Networks

Abstract This article is dedicated to a study of the relations between the economy and the size of the general government sector. The main aim of the article is an identification of the most important variables that are used to determine relations between the economy and size of the sector, as well as to identify frequency of their occurrences in relations to pairs of variables which describe an economy and the size of the sector. In order to explore these relations, the authors used Bayes networks. The economies of EU member states and their public finance systems were the object of analyses in this article. The period that was selected for the research covered the years 2000-2013 (inclusive). In order to describe economies, the authors selected 18 variables, whereas to describe the general government sector - 15 variables. These variables were sourced from databases of Eurostat, OECD and the World Bank. Among an economy’s measures and general government sector measures, there were also some benchmarks found (standard and classic) as well as measures proposed by the authors, which had not been used in the scientific descriptions that were dedicated to research on size of the general government sector. Ipso facto, this article fits in the discussion on not only the size of the general government sector, but also attempts to answer the question of whether the economy determines the size of the sector. To date, the research questions on the impact of the size of the general government sector on the economy of a particular country have been common. This article inverts the investigated dependence and its content concentrates on the attempt to determine if the size of the sector in a particular country is a function of its economy expressed by ratios adopted in conducted the research.

scholarly journals A Linguistic Discursive Analysis of Techno-Colonialism Through the Post-cyberpunk Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Saba Zaidi ◽  
Mehwish Sahibzada ◽  
Saman Salah ◽  
Anisa Tul Mehdi ◽  
Durdana Rafique
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
First Century ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Century Literature

Technological advancement has made the world a complex arena of day to day transforming phenomenon. In such a complex and technologically progressive world nothing is static instead things have become technology oriented. The socio-historical phenomena like orientalism and imperialism are also not free from technological progress. Similarly, literature of the contemporary times has become Postmodernist for it now aims to represent the current human experiences. The quality of the Postmodernist literature is to represent and dismantle the socio-cultural constructions that use to perpetuate control and power. The objective of this research is twofold; it has projected the world of technological progress and innovation through the analysis of the selected Post-cyberpunk novel Accelerando (2005) by Charles Stross, The Windup Girl (2009) by Paolo Bacigalupi and The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. Socio-Cognitive analysis (van Dijk, 2008) has projected the linguistic discursive analysis of techno-colonialism in order to answer the research questions. The study has also introduced Post-cyberpunk as the genre of Postmodernist twenty-first century literature. The findings of the research have suggested that the selected Post-cyberpunk novels have not only represented techno-colonialism but they have also characterized the impact and influence of the techno-colonizers throughout the world.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the policy of sanctions: An event analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-464
Author(s):  
Ivan Timofeev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Event Analysis ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
The Impact

The article aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of sanctions as a foreign policy tool. The following research questions are posed: in what way did COVID-19 affect the policy of sanctions around the world? To what extant did the initiators of sanctions change their restrictions? Where did COVID-19 rank on the global sanctions agenda? What was the position of the UN as a key institution of global governance and what was the reaction of the key countries that initiated the sanctions? The main hypothesis is that COVID-19 has not significantly altered the existing sanctions regime. No single initiator-state has changed its sanctions regime in principle, but states have made a number of humanitarian exemptions. However, these exemptions are limited and sanctions have continued to be imposed as usual. In some areas, COVID-19 has even exacerbated international tensions and raised the risks of sanctions, especially in U. S.—China relations. The hypothesis was tested using the event analysis method of sanctions episodes during the pandemic (March-June 2020). The research provides an analysis of quantity and quality of events and their distribution among initiators. Emphasis is placed on the study of events connected to COVID-19. The results reveal a limited impact of COVID-19 on sanctions policy and highlight the weakness of the UN to affect the behavior of key sanctions initiators even in conditions of a global threat such as COVID-19.

THE IMPACT OF CHANGING MARKETS AND COMPETITION ON THE NPD SPEED/MARKET SUCCESS RELATIONSHIP

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 841-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
MURRAY R. MILLSON ◽  
DAVID WILEMON
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Dynamic Markets ◽  
Line Extensions ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Organizational Integration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Market Success

Our research examines the relationships among four factors thought to be important to new product developing organizations. Those factors include the speed with which product developers produce new products and bring them to market; the degree of integration among the various groups participating in the New Product Development (NPD) process; the proficiency with which the product developers perform their tasks; and the degree of success attained upon the completion of the NPD process. Market dynamism, or the degree of customer changeability, and market hostility, or the degree of market competitiveness, are thought to moderate the relationships among the four previously noted factors. The research questions driving our investigation include: (1) Does NPD project success vary with NPD process speed?; (2) Does NPD speed vary across innovation types (new-to-the-world products, line extensions, etc.)?; (3) Does the strength of the relationships among NPD speed, organizational integration, NPD proficiency (overall and Fuzzy Front End [FFE]), and success vary with the degree of environmental dynamism (changing customer needs)?; and (4) Does the strength of the relationships among NPD speed, organizational integration, NPD proficiency (overall and FFE), and success vary with the degree of market hostility (competition)? We probed the electrical equipment, medical device, and heavy construction equipment industries to provide the data to address our research questions. Our research suggests that the speed with which projects were completed in our sample did not vary between projects that were more or less successful. We also found that the speed with which projects were completed did not vary across various product categories (new-to-the-world, line extensions, etc.) of newly developed products for the industries studied. Primarily, we found that market dynamism moderates the relationship between NPD speed and NPD proficiency whereas environmental hostility mediates NPD speed and NPD proficiency, NPD speed and organizational integration, and NPD speed and new product market success. Our data indicate that speed is not associated with NPD proficiency, degree of organizational integration, and new product success in less dynamic markets whereas speed has an inverse relationship with successfully entering new markets, the proficiency with which development and launch activities are performed, and the proficiency with which new product marketing strategies were implemented in more dynamic markets. Finally, we found that speed is inversely related to successfully entering new markets, overall NPD proficiency and organizational integration, predevelopment stage proficiency and organizational integration, and development and launch proficiency and organizational integration in non-hostile (competitive) environments whereas we found no significant relationships between these factors and speed in hostile environments. We provide several implications for both scholars and NPD managers.

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